such an item would break the damage detect condition in my particular trigger
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in order to make a spell reduction item in my map, it would have to be triggered as part of a condition. rather tedious
The first quote is really my main point, with the second quote being the secondary point. Malevolent criminal I, when the vision paints my mind. Cross the invisible line... ...and you'll be paid in kind.
Right. We established that at the very beginning of this thread, and then you started arguing off in tangents about whether or not armor affects spells. I'm still trying to see how you consider that useless though. It saves you months of work for what I consider a very minor inconvenience.
Message edited by Mystic_Prophet - Wednesday, 2012-11-28, 4:31:54 PM
....it takes months of work to have a "Cast spell equal to X" condition? (Unit finishes casting spell, Spell = X, Do spell effects.) Malevolent criminal I, when the vision paints my mind. Cross the invisible line... ...and you'll be paid in kind.
Yeah im a bit confused by that too O.o how does that take months lol Rest in Peace...Josey The DoG Wales... http://www.youtube.com/user/hero12345333 Visit my youtube channel :) http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/GhostWolf223
Trigger me a custom breath of fire spell, chain lightning, and shockwave spell without using damage detection. then we'll talk. There are some spells that are easy to code. single targets, circular areas, etc. Others like shockwave, chain spells, or cone spells take a lot more effort. Rejuvenation spells tend to be difficult to make stat based too unless you simply make it a dot heal. Multiply that process by the 400 spells in COT and you have a LOT of work on your hands.
Oh. And no using previously made JASS templates. Has to be from scratch and in GUI.
Message edited by Mystic_Prophet - Thursday, 2012-11-29, 11:50:37 AM
Well, no, I didn't make one, I think I know how to do it. I'll just theorycraft a 1x strength-Breath of Fire skill. (Took a couple of seconds to think of, though maybe my brain was just in a designing mood....)
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Breath of Fire: Deals no damage and adds buff "BreathOfFireStrDamage".
Trigger 1: Event: Unit finishes casting spell Condition: Spell cast = Breath of Fire Action: Set variable "BreathOfFireCaster" = (Caster's strength)
Trigger 2: Event: Unit gains a buff Condition: Buff gained = "BreathOfFireStrDamage" Action: Deal damage to unit gaining buff equal to "BreathOfFireCaster" Action: Remove buff from unit (Unit gaining buff) Action: Clear variable "BreathOfFireCaster" (just in case it can't be set again for whatever reason)
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Long as you don't have multiple people casting it at the exact same time and you're golden. (And, of course, the dumb thing can't break itself. And considering how fast WC3 can do actions, two people casting close enough to each other for one to deal the other's damage is beyond unlikely....)
Oh, and if you have to use this large scale, if a lot of spells use 1x strength, then you could just make a buff for "1xStrDamage" and not make it spell specific. (And level 2 of Breath of Fire could get a different buff, "2xStr". But it could get complicated....I'll grant you that.)
Edit: Nevermind, don't understand, could swear those were events and and conditions, can't find them anymore.... They should be triggers though, because that would make stuff so much easier. (Could've sworn they were though...) Malevolent criminal I, when the vision paints my mind. Cross the invisible line... ...and you'll be paid in kind.
Message edited by Sandman366 - Thursday, 2012-11-29, 4:34:06 PM
Yeah if that was possible for every spell, I would never have had to go through all the work around. You CAN do that in sc2 edit though. The biggest problem to custom spells is detecting all of the targets it hits. The breath of fire idea actually might work because that spell is capable of adding a buff. Variables could work, but you would have to make them MUI. and even then you would have to make sure each player was only capable of having one unit with breathe of fire at a time. I'll look into your idea though. See if I can get it working.
However, there are spells like chain lightning which cant add buffs on their own and that creates a bit of a headache.
This sort of works. But it runs into problems with multiple players. Since breathe of fire can't give different buffs for different players. The ammount of damage it does will always be based on the last person to cast it. If two players cast at the same time, I'm not sure if it would work properly, even if you did use variable arrays. Also if you do it this way you break the nifty damage over time effect that breath of fire has.
Code
Untitled Trigger 001 Events Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability Conditions (Ability being cast) Equal to Breath of Fire Actions Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Region centered at (Position of (Triggering unit)) with size (1000.00, 1000.00))) and do (Actions) Loop - Actions If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions) If - Conditions ((Matching unit) has buff Breath of Fire) Equal to True Then - Actions Unit - Cause (Triggering unit) to damage (Matching unit), dealing (Real((Strength of (Triggering unit) (Include bonuses)))) damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal Unit - Remove Breath of Fire buff from (Triggering unit)
Else - Actions
Message edited by Mystic_Prophet - Thursday, 2012-11-29, 5:20:15 PM
Create a flag, property, pointer, idk something and attach it to the unit, on cast that unit's location is shared with the spell effect distance, blah blah blah. Allow me to pseudo this.
Then modify it the direction you want it to hit, T_T not very hard. And if you want to change how it hits the targets add a condition, it was pseudo code for a reason. :P.
edit: Also that was for square.
Message edited by Shaki - Thursday, 2012-11-29, 5:17:50 PM
yeah I've tried using those position codes. Never got the hang of it. changing the direction just makes it into a line. You need to use some advanced trig to get a cone to function properly. And I'm not even sure how to get a chain spell to work at all.
I remember trying to trigger a shockwave spell. took forever to get it working somewhat correctly.
I suppose that's the problem you run into with self teaching. I'm sure I could learn all this stuff if there was a formal class.
Message edited by Mystic_Prophet - Thursday, 2012-11-29, 5:25:08 PM
so give a sample trigger. I'm sure you could pull it off. I'm not quite sure how to translate complex math equations into wc3 GUI myself. A chain spell would be nice too
Message edited by Mystic_Prophet - Thursday, 2012-11-29, 5:28:46 PM
