Zephyr Challenge #2 - Divine

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Yeah, that's what I thought, never mind. I was trying to find a solution to make my spell MUI, but then I thought of an simpler, yet more interesting spell and I started JASSing. Sooner than I knew, I'm finished, so here's a WIP, I just need some more testing and I'll submit it.

you don't need jass for the spell to be MUI >_>

To answer some of the questions:
-You dont need jass to make a spell MUI
-Yes, GUI can be used to create terrain deformations (look under environment)
-My spell incorporates terrain deformations, units and special effects - no doodads

As for information, voters:

You will all need a reason to vote, rating the spell on these items:
- Spell idea
Your spell should be original, not yet another edited Divine Shield.
- Interest
Is the spell attractive, either because of the gameplay, eye candy or fun?
- Leaks
It is important that the code of your spell is clean. For example a JASS spell should be multiinstanceable as locals are accessible.

giving serious arguments will make your vote count, otherwise, not.

(This is information for the future poll @ Zephyr Challenge #2 )

Heero said:

As for information, voters:

You will all need a reason to vote, rating the spell on these items:
- Spell idea
Your spell should be original, not yet another edited Divine Shield.
- Interest
Is the spell attractive, either because of the gameplay, eye candy or fun?
- Leaks
It is important that the code of your spell is clean. For example a JASS spell should be multiinstanceable as locals are accessible.

giving serious arguments will make your vote count, otherwise, not.

(This is information for the future poll @ Zephyr Challenge #2 )

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Another important thing should be how usefull the spell is...

Heero said:

As for information, voters:

You will all need a reason to vote, rating the spell on these items:
- Spell idea
Your spell should be original, not yet another edited Divine Shield.
- Interest
Is the spell attractive, either because of the gameplay, eye candy or fun?
- Leaks
It is important that the code of your spell is clean. For example a JASS spell should be multiinstanceable as locals are accessible.

giving serious arguments will make your vote count, otherwise, not.

(This is information for the future poll @ Zephyr Challenge #2 )

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what if a voter has NO IDEA about jass, and for example gives me 0 point in coding because he can't understand a shit

Well lets say that are examples, I'll talk with Wolverabid about it so don't care, I just want to make you guys feel comfortable, so you won't be thinking that voting will be unfair , etc.
Go farther ON TOPIC now, and start your spell!

Finished!!!

Here's my submission.I've also made 2 sweet models to match the theme. Please if you find any bugs, leeks, ect., PM me.

Heavenly Impact
Creates 2 spheres behind himself, one left, and one right which move to the target point slowly healing ground non-undead allied units they touch. Once they reach the target point, they will collide creating a holy blast that will heal all allied units within 450 aoe 5 times more than normally.
Level 1: Heals 15 hp per touch, 75 upon the blast.
Level 2: Heals 30 hp per touch, 150 upon the blast.
Level 3: Heals 45 hp per touch, 225 upon the blast.

MUI can also stand for Multiple User Interface- A combination of both GUI and JASS. Custom JASS codes helps with cleaning up leaks
from GUI triggers.

Here is a preview of my spell, Holy Conversion, so far:



The spell is finished, but I will not be telling what this spell does, or submitting it until the last day of the competition. This way no one steals my idea!

Darknite, if you announce your spell here, then nobody will steal it, its yours. By leaving it a secret, you risk someone else accidentally coming up the same idea . Your choise though. I might enter if I come up with a good idea. I have one idea already, but it wouldnt be MUI .

My Spell :
Name : Pending
Target : Allied unit, not caster.
Description :
The hero realeases a wave of holy energy that bounces to the nearest allied unit. If the unit is dead it will be revived and healed for the amount of damage the previous unit had has taken before being healed ( Aka if the last unit had 500 max hp and was on 300hp and the ability was on level 3 (100% of lost health is heale) this unit would be healed for 200 damage ). If the unit is alive it will be healed. The healing force lifts up the spirit of a struck unit and increases his health regeneration as well as giving him a chance to dodge attacks.
This is the basic idea so far...

1)ark_NiTe said:

MUI can also stand for Multiple User Interface- A combination of both GUI and JASS. Custom JASS codes helps with cleaning up leaks
from GUI triggers.

Here is a preview of my spell, Holy Conversion, so far:

The spell is finished, but I will not be telling what this spell does, or submitting it until the last day of the competition. This way no one steals my idea!

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is your spell damaging undeads? :S if yes, then you know its not allowed

You should submit your idea/spell early, just incase it doesnt get approved.
Btw |)ark the spell looks realy good, cant wait to see it...

pick every unit in 500 area and holy light picked unit

Jacek said:

pick every unit in 500 area and holy light picked unit

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lol

Anyway, count me in. I'm a totally n00b at spellmaking, but practice makes perfect and although I will take the last place, I can get some useful feedbacks.

P.S. I will not use JASS.

You're welcome Katu, even if you aren't that skilled.
Everyone has a chance here.

I joked a little, I'll try my best I have a spell idea.

Katu said:

lol

Anyway, count me in. I'm a totally n00b at spellmaking, but practice makes perfect and although I will take the last place, I can get some useful feedbacks.

P.S. I will not use JASS.

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you don't have to use jass... my spell wouldn't have to use jass at all, but the arithmetic calculations would be pain in ass in Trigger Editor

Here's my contest spell:

The user starts regenerating life.Then he chooses 25 random units and heals them to 100%.Then the caster gets +20 to all stats for 10 seconds.Then he randomly regenerates life up or down and finally his life goes to the rate of his experience.

Well heres my spell, no screenies cuz atm my internet takes like 20 min to load a web page :*(. Anyways

Resonating Purity: Two waves of holy energy emit from the caster, healing any units they touch. When the waves have pulsed (10 pulses @ lvl 1, 15 @ lvl 2 and 20 @ lvl 3) Times, they release a discharge of holy energy, healing any unit within the circle. The circle will get larger with each lvl and will pulse once at lvl 1 twice at lvl 2 and 3 times at lvl 3. One last thing, plz don't PM me cuz of leaks. I know alot of them are there but when i try to fix them the spell stops working.
If anybody knows how to fix this then plz pm me. Any feedback appreciated.

Jacek said:

is your spell damaging undeads? :S if yes, then you know its not allowed

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It is yes. Also, you can go back and re-read the rules--they never stated that a spell cannot damage any units--simply that they tend to be less destructive. :emote_laugh:

So yes, part of my spell will heal up to 16 allied non-Undead units and damage up to 16 enemy Undead units. This is not all of the spell though :emote_dribble:.

I will release it here within today or tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure they can't do ANY harm

@darknite: I had a talk about the damage thingie in the chat earlier today, and unfortunately the spell can not do any damage . Yep, that sucks, but thats how this contest goes.

I'd like to join if it's not too late. Should be an interesting competition...

Mini-Me said:

@darknite: I had a talk about the damage thingie in the chat earlier today, and unfortunately the spell can not do any damage . Yep, that sucks, but thats how this contest goes.

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This cannot be true. The rules of the Zephyr contest clearly state that Divine spells usually "tend to be less flashy, destructive or disruptive."

So they are less destructive, but it is not state in the rules, which I assume have been well thought out and are now set in stone, that the spell cannot do harm to units. To be fair, the rules must not be changed once users (like us) have already begun work on these spells. So then if the rules do not state that they spell cannot do damage, I am petitioning that spells must be allowed to do damage.

I'm Sorry 1)ark_NiTe,
Like I mentioned before :
Divine spells tend to focus on healing and protection. They tend to be less flashy, destructive or disruptive.
-> This includes no offensive spells, since this is not reffering to any holy spell that could possibly damage an undead.
The way of less destructive would be pushing back units, freezing them, slowing them, and so on ...

Less flashy and disruptive. Is my spell too disruptive?
Edit: I would attach the map but the spell isnt finished (theres a glitch with restoring the terrain to normal.)

Here's my spell

"Holy Redemption"
With a lot of struggling I managed to get this spell done after 3 hours.

In a nooby nutshell it creates 4 swirling waves of holy energy and heals you for all the allies those waves hit by the damage those allies have taken. Hence "Redemption"
So if it hits 2 targets
A footman with 300/500 hp
A knight with 700/800 hp
You heal the difference of 300 hp.

Holy Conversion

lol 1)ark NiTe. You can do anything short of turning the enemy inside out and blowing his guts all over the ground. Slow, move, curse, stun, as long as it doesnt deal any damage.

Edit: Nice spell btw KingofJasons, I was suprised it didnt have JASS in it.

*Spell completed, unless i think of something else*
Heres my spell:

Holy Plague
The Cleric concentrates his inner most thoughts into a powerful blast of light. The target unit and up to 4 allied units around it gain a bonus to attack speed and are healed every 3 seconds. This plague affects enemy units but decreases there attack speed and doesnt affect there life. The plague is spread through attacks.

This spell can get very interesting and chaotic in maps with multiple teams.

Goodluck to the rest of the contestants!

Gost said:

Goodluck to the rest of the contestants!
Herio how did you get the water in the middle of your Terrain Def?

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I'm 99% sure he used the Replenish Mana and Life effect... that's all that I can think of.

you can create water using Terrain Deformations

Jacek said:

you can create water using Terrain Deformations

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Well then that's the answer. I had no clue! Then again I've never had any reason to try it. Pretty sweet though!

terrain deformations tend to be very laggy when used near doodads (eg. trees), I am looking forward to testing this one ^_^

this is entry for Zephyr Challenge #2

My entry for Zephyr Challenge #2


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is that a screenshot?

map name says divine spellS... you know you can submit only one spell, right?

doh, well my spell was gonna be called redemption, but I see we have plenty of those, I'll re-do my tool tips and submit in a bit.

Less flashy and disruptive. Is my spell too disruptive?

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Seems fine to me on the screenshot.

Indeed like Jacek said, only one spell is allowed!

It is also nice to see that we have much members joining this challenge!

Convert Faith

Ok, here is my entry.

Original Model Credits go to Blizzard
Edits were made by me for this challenge using magos model editor 1.5

Niiiiiiiiceeeeee

Gah, Ive got a few ideas but need a real winner>

Spirit Essence - (Aura)
A portion of all damage recieved by units under the aura is shared amongst/distributed amongst each other.
(Spirit Link Aura - sort of

Brilliant Halo - (Buff)
- Increases target unit's hitpoint regeneration
- Reduces the amount of damage recieved by a %
- If the target dies, with buff, the buff is transferred to a nearby friendly unit.
(The buff's duration carries on with the next target, e.g. 60 second buff duration, if a unit dies after 30 seconds, the next unit will have a 30 second buff).

Holy Redemption

There, my Spell's ready, Holy Redemption (Yes, I could have come up whith something more original :emote_razz: ).

*Cough, about that "Less flashy thing"... Will this spell be accepted, last stage tend to be very flashy... Easily fixed, though..

EDIT: Added Map

I bet last stage is laggy ^_^ I had to cut around 60% of special effects in my spell :/

Heero said:

This is accepted.

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Heero, just to be sure you have seen my entry It is on page 6. I only want to make sure it doesn't get over looked since I am pumped for this contest!

Holy Conversion

Uploaded Map, see self if it's laggy... Dunno really..:emote_razz:

Zwan said:

Ok, here is my entry.

"Convert Faith"

~Zwan

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This is quite a stacked ability, my friend! But it also has major faults:

-You get control of a mass amount of enemy units, severely unbalancing a game.

-Further throwing off the balance, these new units can attack 2 times as fast, mowing down any remaining enemy units.

-In game, you would get control of these units and ALSO get control of how much food they cost--meaning if it was too much your upkeep would go up, and you may not be able to make any more units if you max it out until the spell was over.

-The special effect of Conversion appears over enemy Heroes as well, though it does not convert them (thank God or this would be unbelievably stacked :emote_razz: )

This is a neat looking and super powerful ability, but I think it definitely needs some work.

Jacek said:

SMITE

Calls the power of God to resurrect fallen warriors and heal living ones.

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This is a very flashy ability to submit, Jac. It is a really cool looking one too, though. I really like how the effects make a cross, but I am wondering (I tested it but still cannot tell because too much is going on in the map) does the ability only heal/revive within the cross? Or a circular area of effect? If it is only in the cross that is a somewhat awkward AoE. Good job though.

xXMephistoXx said:

There, my Spell's ready, Holy Redemption (Yes, I could have come up whith something more original :emote_razz: ).

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This isn't actually that flashy, Mephisto, aside from the very end. I don't see a problem with it being accepted. The thing is though, it's not the most well thought out spell here (for a few reasons).

1. It heals EVERY unit in the map owned by the casting Player for each level. (The spell says that the distance varies of the units that get healed)
2. I also notice that you create a "4 Dummy" unit which I'm assuming is a standard Dummy unit, but it never does anything and is never used- unless I am missing something- so these dummy units are POINTLESS and just taking up triggers.
3. I do not think that your special effects are properly destroyed. When you create 4 effects, and then destroy (last created special effect) four times, I think that it is only destroying the very last created special effect, and not the other 3 before it. If true, this spells leaks bad.

Continue to work on it? That's all I can say.

1)ark_NiTe said:

This isn't actually that flashy, Mephisto, aside from the very end. I don't see a problem with it being accepted. The thing is though, it's not the most well thought out spell here (for a few reasons).

1. It heals EVERY unit in the map owned by the casting Player for each level. (The spell says that the distance varies of the units that get healed)
2. I also notice that you create a "4 Dummy" unit which I'm assuming is a standard Dummy unit, but it never does anything and is never used- unless I am missing something- so these dummy units are POINTLESS and just taking up triggers.
3. I do not think that your special effects are properly destroyed. When you create 4 effects, and then destroy (last created special effect) four times, I think that it is only destroying the very last created special effect, and not the other 3 before it. If true, this spells leaks bad.

Continue to work on it? That's all I can say.

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KK, will fix it Right awy, about the Dummy unitss, their just some special effects, if you see at the model they use, you can see that. Will correct the destroy special effect thingy...

xXMephistoXx said:

KK, will fix it Right awy, about the Dummy unitss, their just some special effects, if you see at the model they use, you can see that. Will correct the destroy special effect thingy...

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Oh OK, yes I didn't take a look at the dummy units. That explains that issue then. So they aren't pointless after all--good! But you are still healing every unit owned by the casting player in the map for each of the 4 levels. Perhaps when this is fixed, you should also make it heal allies.

1)ark_NiTe said:

But you are still healing every unit owned by the casting player in the map for each of the 4 levels. Perhaps when this is fixed, you should also make it heal allies.

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Good idea whith the allies! But I can't figure out how to make it only heal units owned by the player casting spell whithin range, it's one or the other, as far as I can see. Either range or owner. You couldn't help me out here, if it's not against the rules, or something... :emote_sad: