I have a wierdo problem, hope you can explain it to me.
I have made a unit called stinkbomb, (based on an ordinary serpent ward).
The stinkbomb has an ability, disiease cloud (neutral hostile). Now, when i place out the stinkbomb with the unit pallette, enemies get affected of it in-game. But when i use an item to summon it in-game, no units get affected by the cloud. Why? Should i base the stinkbomb on another unit?
But it all seems wierd when the ability only works when the unit is pre-placed in the editor.
it's pretty safe to assume that it has something to do with the fact that you're summoning units, this can mess a whole lot up, for example if you designate something to specifically have a teamcolour, like i made a unit that always looked like it was owned by red no matter who i placed it for, summoning it would give it the colours of the player that summons it. it's also equally possible that it's the fact that you're giving a ward an ability, maybe use something like inferno or dark portal to summon one.
Hmm, or use a trigger and then w8 and remove it by trigger. But i have fixed it now, and i think i know why it was "bugged". By using another base summon spell, (item furbolg summon) instead of the (sentry ward item), i could make it work. And it seems that it depends on the data text. You see, on ward summons, the data string is:
data - ward unit type
while the others non-ward-based are:
data - summon - unit type
This must have something to do with it, and i think that you must use the real summoned ward if you're using the ward-summon as a base.
And now i have tested with healing ward based ability to summon, and the unit is based on healing ward too. And it woorks! Halleluja!
To clear things out, if you roll over a problem like this, mind the base unit and base ability. You should use those who are based to be used together as often as possible.
