SC2Mapster

I have an aura that helps allies and hurts enemies. I have all the searches and behaviors in, the only problem is that I don't know how to make the ability passive so it is always working, and have the behaviors disappear when the unit goes out of the aura range.

I'm not really sure about what you want cause it seems you have already done most of the work.

So you have an ability which applies a behavior or you already have put the buff on the unit from the start. The buff searches around him and gives "hurt enemy buff" to enemies and "help ally buff" to ally within the search effect area. so i you have everytrhing set up properly i would say make the behavior on the unit giving the buffs permanent and make the other buffs like "hurt enemy" and "help ally" to a duration longer than the search so that it will always be applied, then set stack count of the buffs to 1.

I'm not very advanced with the editor either but i think this is what you have to do :]

@Rice87: Go

That's not exactly what I wanted. I want it to be permanent, but I also want it to go away when the unit goes out of range of the aura.

@fishy77: Go

Make the buffs last 0.6 seconds. Make the main aura cast the search area every 0.5 seconds.

@TheAlmaity: Go

i thought thats what i said :p

@Rice87: Go

I guess he didn't understand it.

EDIT: Fishy, if this doesn't solve it for some reason, look at the Guardian Shield ability from the sentry.

@DrSuperEvil: Go

I pretty much copied the mothership cloak ability and I have all the behaviors and it should work, but for some reason it wont affect any units. I don't know how it can be wrong because it is almost exactly like the mothership one that works.

Edit: I think it may just not be triggering he search or something, but idk.

@fishy77: Go

1. Does your aura-unit actually have the behavior? (it should say so near the wireframe. If it has the "hidden" flag enabled, disable it and/or set up a debug trigger)
   
2. Does your behavior actually use the search area (Have it set as periodic effect, have infinite periods, have the right period, etc.)
   
3. Do your search areas have the right values? (Radius, effect, target filters, etc.)
   
4. Are there any validators screwing anything up? (Just remove all validators from all effects)

I highly recommend you find the "Mapster Mentoring" thread and PM one or more people there and get their IM details, you seem to be having a lot of trouble with simple things in the editor which could be fixed within minutes if you had someone to talk to immediately instead of having to wait for forum replise.

@TheAlmaity:

1. Oh... I feel very stupid. I didn't give the unit the behavior. It works now :)
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I will give that thread a try. It seems helpful.