[Spell] Making custom shockwave and custom stampede with hero attribute as damage

[McPhisto2051]

hello,
I'm interested in making a channel ability which casts shockwave and another which casts stampede but the damage on impact should be hero-stat based instead of a fixed value.
I'm totally clueless how to do so.
Please help me.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

The easiest way I can think of is to make the shockwave and stampede a custom missile using chopstick’s missile system then you can specific the damage as much as you like.

AFAIK, the other option would be to use a damage engine. However, you can’t really specific the spell where the damage is coming from so utilizing damage engine would not be easy

 

[DoomBlade]

This is actually pretty simple to make with Damage Engine. If your map can only have one hero of the same type it's even easier.
1) Set shockwave/stampede damage to 1
2) Create a dummy unit in the object editor and then:

• Shockwave
  • Events
    • Game - DamageEvent becomes Equal to 1.00
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of DamageEventSource) Equal to Dummy (Shockwave)
  • Actions
    • Unit - Cause DamageEventSource to damage DamageEventTarget, dealing ShockWave_Dmg damage of attack type Spells and damage type Magic

ShockWave_Dmg is a variable where you store the shockwave damage. You can combine the hero attribute bonus with base damage using the Arithmethic function.

If it is important that the Hero gets the kill credit you can either use hashtable or dynamic indexing. Hashtable should be good enough here.

EDIT: You can actually just order the Hero to deal the damage without the dummy unit at all. Just make sure the base damage is around 1-3 so it deals the small initial damage.

 

[Devalut]

Depending on what version you are using you can directly modify the spell cast's damage and update it to match the hero's stats.

• example
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Carrion Swarm
  • Actions
    • Ability - Set Ability: (Unit: (Triggering unit)'s Ability with Ability Code: (Ability being cast))'s Real Level Field: Damage ('Ucs1') of Level: ((Level of (Ability being cast) for (Triggering unit)) - 1) to (45.00 + (Real((Abs((Strength of (Triggering unit) (Include bonuses)))))))

Note
Ensure that the ability matches the stat you are trying to modify (example Ucs1 is carrion swarm's damage stat.)
Use carrion swarm instead of shockwave to avoid desync and just swap models.

 

[McPhisto2051]

Thanks for all your help!
With Devaluts Trigger I don't need a damage engine and it works really nice. I can now modify the spells according to the heros stats. But I couldn't find the "Level of (Ability beeing cast for (Triggering Unit))"
Also works for the stampede damage if you look up the correct 4 digit string.
Just a little follow up question: With Carrion Swarm the damage dealt by the "shockwave" decreases after the first hit, is this changable?

 

[Uncle]

Ability being cast is in the Function drop-down menu. It's the only Function you have available in this case.

Carrion Swarms damage shouldn't decrease after the first hit. You're making a mistake somewhere.

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[Wrda]

You probably need to increase max damage dealt or something.
Also don't forget to increase and decrease level of ability so the change of amount of damage by triggers is bug free.

 

[Uncle]

You probably need to increase max damage dealt or something.
Also don't forget to increase and decrease level of ability so the change of amount of damage by triggers is bug free.

He shouldn't have to increase/decrease in this case. That issue seems to only happen with passive abilities.

 

[McPhisto2051]

my fault, I wan't precise enough:
I have problems with the abilities level: (which is by default 0)

I guess its an arithmic, but can't find the ability level

 

[Wrda]

He shouldn't have to increase/decrease in this case. That issue seems to only happen with passive abilities.

I remember reading a post from you to increase and decrease level of bladestorm ability, from blademaster, because the OP said it wasn't working, that's why I would say it's better safe than sorry
Wc3 and its oddities.

 

[Devalut]

my fault, I wan't precise enough:
I have problems with the abilities level: (which is by default 0)
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I guess its an arithmic, but can't find the ability level

It's under the "Unit" category:

At least that's what I'm assuming you're asking.

 

[Uncle]

I remember reading a post from you to increase and decrease level of bladestorm ability, from blademaster, because the OP said it wasn't working, that's why I would say it's better safe than sorry
Wc3 and its oddities.

Oh, I completely forgot about that... This game is just so inconsistent sometimes it's hard be certain about anything. I know I had the Shockwave ability working without the need of inc/dec but I guess it really comes down to the specific behavior of the ability. Anyway, like you said, better safe than sorry.

I wonder if using the "A unit begins casting an ability" Event would fix most of these issues as it would update the stats prior to the ability firing.

 

[osh]

Depending on what version you are using you can directly modify the spell cast's damage and update it to match the hero's stats.

• example
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Carrion Swarm
  • Actions
    • Ability - Set Ability: (Unit: (Triggering unit)'s Ability with Ability Code: (Ability being cast))'s Real Level Field: Damage ('Ucs1') of Level: ((Level of (Ability being cast) for (Triggering unit)) - 1) to (45.00 + (Real((Abs((Strength of (Triggering unit) (Include bonuses)))))))

Note
Ensure that the ability matches the stat you are trying to modify (example Ucs1 is carrion swarm's damage stat.)
Use carrion swarm instead of shockwave to avoid desync and just swap models.

I would just like to know what version of world editor you guys are using. I can't seem to find the Action "Set Ability" in mine so i came here to ask.

 

[Uncle]

I would just like to know what version of world editor you guys are using. I can't seem to find the Action "Set Ability" in mine so i came here to ask.

You need to use 1.31+ to get access to this function as well as a lot of other powerful functions. Also, you get access to Lua as a scripting language which is far superior to Jass.