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Have this marine one 1 tile and medic 2 steps away
have a location in between the marine and medic, and when marine stims the medic walks over therefore the condition is met and cast w.e spell...
make marine hp 100pct and medic back to the same tile to reset it
This works pretty well with hyper trigger

But you could only cast one spell

Not if you have a gateway or something that can shange between spells. Or you could have more marines and ask players to hotkey them Ctrl 2, Ctrl 3 and Ctrl 4 (for example). It would work pretty fine and pressing 4 then T doesn't take a lot of time. You could even add casting time by moving the medic farther away.

A gateway system is more useful in that case (less locations, less hotkeys...), unless the medic reacts faster than a unit is built.

Well ok, actually they have the same number of hotkeys

actually, the medic system would be useful for the casting speed as Cheat described, and maybe for certain spell systems. but generally, its not very effective

You can achieve the same results (hotkey, then letter) with siege tanks. Takes less units, less space, and fewer locations (one, if done right). Although the point about taking time to cast is interesting =) How far will a medic walk to heal something?

actaully a medic has its own ai scripts in the game before any triggers are placed. A comp medic can travel anywhere yo heal something. However a comp medic wont travel to a human ally for healing purposes. Blizzard made some weird scripts, if u let a medic in a map with some buildings around it will run around the map for no reason. It runs around on its own without placing triggers in the map. Another unit is the lurker. If you place it in the map someplace and use a move trigger it will pop up and then move back to the orignal placement spot.
Werid ay?

would disabling burrow work for lurker -- mwuhahahaha

Seige Tank takes up as much space as medic and marine, and the point of stim casting is that it is fast. Seige Tank takes just about the same time as creating a unit in gateways.

Siege Tanks have to be re-hotkeyed if they're replaced when the spell is cast.

You could also continuously heal a unit via triggers and make it only killable if you stimpack and then detect the death of the unit.

Well, it still requires a 2ndary unit to do the killing, since u cant kill a unit by stim alone, and the auto heal might still mess it up... meds or EUDs detecting health would probably work best...

Use a switch/count/whatever to keep track of what it is, so when it changes, the spell happens.

When I first saw this topic, I thought it would be that your hero is a marine, and you use stim and an EUD detects the health loss, causing a spell to be cast I think so complicated

Hm... I just thought of something weird for a spellcasting system. Using the tanks, what if you killed the tank after the spell was cast? This would let you only have 9 spells hotkeyed, which could add a certain element of strategy (of course, you'd be able to reset...).

People wouldn't like having to reassign their hotkeys all the time. And there are 10 hotkeys, btw

Usually you would use 1 hotkey for your hero.

Firebat, Marine, Jim, Gui all hotkeyed onto 1.

Press 1, select the unit, then press t to activate the spell.

U can have 4 spells using this method, but it takes a while to activate. Useful for cooldown between spells, Such as place the medic far away (after stim) , and make it order to the location that is 2 tiles away from ur marine

When you already have to move your mouse to select a unit, a dropship system is much better...

or a build system (as in trigger happy D), since each unit has a hotkey too AND you have time delays built-in and adjustable. The downside there is that it's more difficult for the user to see what unit does which action.

I wonder if you could make a EUD/EPR condition to detect when the building has been selected...

At first I would try to find out how SC stores the units you selected. It can't be so simple since you can select several units...

Doodle already figured that out, then he detected it with EUDs and made a concept map.

Then I theorized a good way to create a map using those triggers, where you'd just press the number keys to cast spells or quaff potions.

I would create a concept map about it, but the mapping contest takes priority, and after the mapping contest comes finalizing mutalisk maddness, and after that comes helping spinestealth with this thingy that I totally forgot about up until now again I'm so sorry spinestealth.

Not a bad idea, with the four Stim-Enabled unit set up.
But it is still kinda easier for the Gateway spell setup, just make them build really fast or whatever.

Well, any new selection systems are a good thing. I'd thought I covered them all, but I hadn't thought of this yet. Good job.

A good time where this would be useful is in an RPG where a player can choose what weapons or spells they want in their inventory.

Picture this: The player has an overall inventory somewhere on the map, and can bring the units in that inventory to beacons, which correspond with each stimming unit that actually casts a spell, therefore equipping whatever that unit represents onto that stimming unit.

Then the player would have a selectable quick list of spells to use with the hotkeys. Of course, you could do the exact same thing only faster with a gateway using Koltz's idea. But if you assigned a different hotkey to each stim unit you could have up to ten almost as fast; you'd just have to remember which spell is which number.

Interesting idea. You could easily have 4 spells per player, and it wouldn't take up very much space on the map. I wonder if an 8-way arrangement could work as well with only 1 medic.

How about this idea:

You have a marine, who is continually either moving and being moved back to his previous place, or shooting a target that is being continually healed. When you hit stim, he moves faster, or shoots faster. You can then detect this, etc... But since stim has to wear out, you could make it for a property that's continous, like a sheild.