[Trigger] Bouncing Spell

[X3n0nX]

Hi, can someone tell me how do I make a bouncing spell.

Basically, when the caster casts the spell, it will create a fireball to the targeted point of the ability being casted. It has an arc or Acid Bomb type. After it hits the ground, it should bounce to the next target position, but it creates 2 fireballs instead of one. Any idea how to do this?

 

[Caedrus]

Hi, can someone tell me how do I make a bouncing spell.

Basically, when the caster casts the spell, it will create a fireball to the targeted point of the ability being casted. It has an arc or Acid Bomb type. After it hits the ground, it should bounce to the next target position, but it creates 2 fireballs instead of one. Any idea how to do this?

There are quite a few ways you could go about this. For example:

1) Trigger the movement of the missile yourself, using a loop and moving a dummy unit or special effect, use "change unit flying height" to a parabola formula, and have a dummy unit cast the AoE spell each time it reaches a targeted point.

2) Have a targeted dummy spell with a buff and missile arc target a dummy unit, detect when the dummy unit has the buff, and then have it cast the dummy spell on a second and third dummy unit (the bounce points for the other two fireballs), and have dummy units cast the AoE effect on units with the required buff.

Easy peasy

 

[X3n0nX]

1) Trigger the movement of the missile yourself, using a loop and moving a dummy unit or special effect, use "change unit flying height" to a parabola formula, and have a dummy unit cast the AoE spell each time it reaches a targeted point.

First, "Trigger the movement of the missile yourself" I know how to do this, also can you show me the formula? I think I created a Jump Stomp kind of spell ages ago which using parabolas.

2) Have a targeted dummy spell with a buff and missile arc target a dummy unit, detect when the dummy unit has the buff, and then have it cast the dummy spell on a second and third dummy unit (the bounce points for the other two fireballs), and have dummy units cast the AoE effect on units with the required buff.

I dont get the buff part, are you saying that this works like a condition? I did think that, using the dummy to use a spell.

 

[Caedrus]

1) Trigger the movement of the missile yourself, using a loop and moving a dummy unit or special effect, use "change unit flying height" to a parabola formula, and have a dummy unit cast the AoE spell each time it reaches a targeted point.

First, "Trigger the movement of the missile yourself" I know how to do this, also can you show me the formula? I think I created a Jump Stomp kind of spell ages ago which using parabolas.

This is an example of a parabola formula:

• Set Parabola = (((3.00 x Height) / MaxDistance) x ((MaxDistance - Distance) x (Distance / MaxDistance)))

Height is the the current flying height of the unit. Max Distance is the starting distance between points. Distance is the distance remaining to the target point.

2) Have a targeted dummy spell with a buff and missile arc target a dummy unit, detect when the dummy unit has the buff, and then have it cast the dummy spell on a second and third dummy unit (the bounce points for the other two fireballs), and have dummy units cast the AoE effect on units with the required buff.

I dont get the buff part, are you saying that this works like a condition? I did think that, using the dummy to use a spell.

Yes, you can use the boolean condition "Unit has specific buff."

 

[Berb]

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[quote]After it hits the ground, it should bounce to the next target position[/quote]

What do you mean, the "next target position"? There is only one target gathered by any [B]single[/B] ability, so please explain how you are going about this.

Also, I would recommend you to my [B][url=http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/jass-functions-413/custom-projectiles-162121/]Projectile[/url][/B] library but I doubt you use vJass.