Heal Event for GUI, version 1.1.1.1

Moderator · Oct 14, 2015

17:20, 17th Oct 2015

This resource has been Approved by BPower.

Criticism:
Very useful, when you need to detect heal events in your map.
As expected very good and polished GUI coding.

Blightsower · Oct 14, 2015

this is useful

Warseeker · Oct 14, 2015

Brilliant idea for healing

ssbbssc2 · Oct 15, 2015

is it compatible with ur Damage Engine?

Bribe · Oct 15, 2015

Yes, it requires it.

Spellbound · Oct 15, 2015

This looks neat, even though I'm not sure what I could use I for

ssbbssc2 · Oct 15, 2015

after a quick test i have a question - this event reacts oonly on active heal spells, not to aura effect or heal via Roar or Inner Fire spells?

Blightsower · Oct 15, 2015

Maybe u can use it on some weird passive that grants a buff or something when then unit gets healed or some stage mechanics that will be triggered when a unit in your party gets healed. This is good.

edit: @ssbbssc2 it detects the heal when a unit gains a certain amout of health over a period of time.

Bribe · Oct 15, 2015

Update to 1.0.1.0:

- Changed heal threshold to 5.00.
- Turns off the Heal Check Loop when there are no units in the system.
- Now does not add mechanical units and structures to the system.

Demo map changes:

- Updated the text tags to round off instead of just rounding down.
- Added Alchemist and Crypt Lord to show off their healing abilities. To demo Locust Swarm effectively, pull back the mortar teams so they don't auto-attack and then send the Crypt Lord to the North-East corner of the map to take some damage before using Locust Swarm.

ssbbssc2 · Oct 15, 2015

Empirean said:
@ssbbssc2 it detects the heal when a unit gains a certain amout of health over a period of time.

well, my roar buff heal 10 per sec and inner fire heal 50 per sec
no response from system for that type of heal

Bribe · Oct 15, 2015

This system treats those as regeneration. In the Heal Event thread, I outlined that those will be not possible to get an event for without triggers. What I can do is add an additional component to the system so that if - over a period of 1 second - the unit has regenerated beyond a certain threshold it could fire a "RegenEvent". The variable which tracks regeneration already exists: heal_regen[(Custom value of unit)] / HEAL_CHECK_INTERVAL will get you the amount of regen per second.

The problem with balancing it is a hero/boss with a lot of built-in regen will mess it up. Here's a link to the original discussion for anyone who hasn't seen it, yet: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/lab-715/healevent-270489/

So, what I'll do is add a trigger which runs every 1.00 seconds. Loops through all active indices. If the unit is regenerating more than HEAL_THRESHOLD per second, it will run HealEvent Equal to 0.50. This will fire for high-natural regen units, but there's no way for the system to know enough about that regen to make a difference - it can only estimate.

Bribe · Oct 17, 2015

v1.1.0.0 - Added support to detect regeneration above REGEN_THRESHOLD per REGEN_CHECK_INTERVAL.

Demo Map updated with items such as scroll of regeneration and the heal text tag is now more interesting.

Clarified that DamageEngine and UnitEvent are optional and not necessary requirements. GUI Unit Indexer is the only requirement.

BPower · Oct 17, 2015

Since this resource type is unique in our database ( actually I couldn't find an heal event library anywhere ),
I decided to give it a rating of 5/5 instead of 4/5.
I was playing a bit with the demo map and couldn't produce any flaws.

Bribe · Oct 17, 2015

In the JASS forum, there exists 2 approved resources by Magtheridon96 which overlap with some of the features of this system:

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/jass-resources-412/system-getunitregeneration-203453/

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/jass-resources-412/system-heal-203662/

Unfortunately, neither resource auto-detects healing ("Heal" allows you to heal a unit over time which this does not implement). Aside from that, this system incorporates the functions of those 2 systems.

There is this resource on wc3c which, still, only allows you to trigger heals: http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=104638

There is this resource on TheHelper which allows you to set a unit's regeneration (I think, it's a pretty simple resource that doesn't seem to interact with non-triggered regeneration): http://www.thehelper.net/threads/healcraft-add-on-for-heal.134996/. Lastly, the same author also made another resource for healing, but - again - just for triggering healing: http://www.thehelper.net/threads/heal.127720/

So, I guess no one made a resource to detect natural WC3 healing until now. Better late than never?

BPower · Oct 17, 2015

Better late then never!

Bribe · Oct 18, 2015

Changed the default Heal Add Unit filter to check if the default movement speed of the unit is not equal to 0 instead of checking if it's a structure. This prevents wards from being added to the system.

Also updated the demo map to subtract 32.00 from the text tag's X position which centers it with the unit instead of having it off to the right.

Mirage1 · Oct 31, 2015

this probably might be necroposting but i will post anyway because i liked this system

I would like to report a bug when Metamorphosis ends making the system detect an infinite number of heals

Bribe · Nov 1, 2015

It's probably the regeneration event and your hero has high regeneration when Metamorphosis is finished. Is this a special hero that you have or just the normal Demon Hunter?

Mirage1 · Nov 1, 2015

Just the normal demon hunter. Could be the extra hit points that skill provides?

Bribe · Nov 1, 2015

Well the demon hunter regenerates wildly while metamorphosized, so I think what I should add to this is an additional threshold which can be assigned per unit-type for cases like this. It will require a hashtable to index the individual threshold to a unit type.

Alternatively, you could just remove the 0.50 heal event from that trigger which displays regen. It's unimportant as it fires once per second as opposed to heals which fire just about exactly when the heal takes effect.

Mirage1 · Nov 1, 2015

Every time I cast metamorphosis the system also seems to increase the healing. The results of the tests I've made with a lvl 6 normal Demon Hunter:
1º Cast: first shows +500 hp from the skill bonus. When ends detects infinites +250.
2º Cast: shows the +500 hp. When ends detects infinites +375.
3º Cast +500 hp then infinites +438... (I believe it never ends)

I've also tested with a 0 bonus hp Metamorphosis and a Bear Form skill. When the Druid return to his normal form the infinite heals are displayed (Bear has greater hp than druid just as the normal metamorphosed demon hunter) but the demon hunter (with the 0 hp bonus skill) does not display the healing bug anymore.
Seems to bug when the new unit have different hp from the normal one.

Bribe · Nov 4, 2015

I found the problem, but I won't be able to update this for a while.

To fix the problem, below the condition in the loop trigger, "heal_amount Greater than or equal to HEAL_THRESHOLD", add the real comparison, "heal_regen[heal_integer] Greater than 0.00".

This will completely fix the problem.

Please update to the newest Heal Event. I have fixed a critical issue where if a unit loses more than HEAL_THRESHOLD life either due to negative regeneration or a lower-HP transform that it would cause an infinite heal loop on that unit.

I had been subtracting the heal_regen amount to negate any regeneration, but it then treats negative regeneration as healing so I had to do a Max(0, regen) to get that bug resolved.

Chaosy · Nov 4, 2015

Bribe said:
Yes, it requires it.

Ugh. I am a bit of a stoner I prefer the old systems over the new ones with half a million features and a dozen requirements.

But as the others said, highly useful.

Bribe · Nov 4, 2015

It actually doesn't require it any more. It only requires Unit Indexer. And Damage Engine also only requires Unit Indexer. Not sure what you mean with a dozen requirements as GUI Unit Indexer requires nothing.

Mirage1 · Nov 4, 2015

I've downloaded the updated version. Thanks for fixing the bug

IcemanBo · Nov 6, 2015

When a unit attacks a mechanic unit it fires heal event with max HP of the mechanic unit.
There exists a filter onIndex not to add mechanic units. I'm not convinced it's a good limitation.
User can easily make a map where mechani units gets healed/use items etc, but it would not fire the heal event.

Bribe · Nov 6, 2015

I forgot to add checks in the on-damage addon triggers to not do anything unless the unit is registered in the system. For now, a stop-gap solution is just to remove the mechanical prejudice from the On Index trigger as I merely did that as an optimization.

IcemanBo · Nov 6, 2015

Ah okay, besides that I think the system works very fine.
In my opinion the check can/should be removed onIndex

Maybe someone else also can share his opinion on that.

Genesys · Nov 7, 2015

Very useful!

Shaeam · Nov 8, 2015

Another fantastic system. And just what I was looking for to compliment your damage system (Funnily enough something I asked in the comments about)

I do have a question, is it possible to disable regeneration and/or multiply healing before it happens using this system?

Bribe · Nov 8, 2015

The system cannot catch regen or healing below REGEN_THRESHOLD or HEAL_THRESHOLD. Aside from that, you can add an event response (heal_event equal to 0.50 for regen or 1.00 for heal) then modify the unit's HP manually higher or lower. If you want to increase the fluidity of regen in the unit's hit points display, you can lower the REGEN_EVENT_INTERVAL (you'll want to lower the REGEN_THRESHOLD to scale).

Shaeam · Nov 8, 2015

Bribe said:
The system cannot catch regen or healing below REGEN_THRESHOLD or HEAL_THRESHOLD. Aside from that, you can add an event response (heal_event equal to 0.50 for regen or 1.00 for heal) then modify the unit's HP manually higher or lower. If you want to increase the fluidity of regen in the unit's hit points display, you can lower the REGEN_EVENT_INTERVAL (you'll want to lower the REGEN_THRESHOLD to scale).

Gotcha. Thanks for the response. If I lower the REGEN_THRESHOLD, won't that make it so that the heal text appears for non-ability regeneration, though?

Bribe · Nov 9, 2015

You can add a second if/else block to your trigger to see if the regen was greater than 5.00 and then display the texttag yourself.

Bribe · Jan 15, 2016

Update to fix a bug when implementing this resource which would cause numerous Var_AsString syntax errors when trying to save.

sluk · Feb 27, 2016

lol i like the spell but now i cant open my map where i was working on xD

Bribe · Feb 27, 2016

At the top left of your world editor, click File and click "close". Alternatively, you could click Window and click on your map.

ssbbssc2 · Mar 2, 2016

get an error msg after import
http://cs628419.vk.me/v628419298/3ae3e/lR4lpj0nuFM.jpg

Bribe · Mar 2, 2016

Use the version of Unit Event featured in the demo map. The error message you're getting was patched 8 months ago or so in Unit Event.

pick-a-chew · Oct 28, 2017

I finally got round to using this, and whilst it doesn't track healing sources by itself, it's fairly easy to update any of your existing healing spells to use this system. It seems to work very well, though i have yet to see how well it works in a full, long game setting.

One thing that's a bit weird is maximum HP gains are treated as healing, when really the current hit point increase (or "healing") is a side-effect of an increase in max hit-points. It makes showing actual, proper healing from floating text a bit more complicated (example: summon a unit and give it ten 100-HP tomes, it will be "healed" for 1000 which is misleading).

Bribe · Oct 29, 2017

I could also add a Max-life variable and factor in max life gain with any heading gain to see if there's any difference. If not, it's not a heal.

MageMarauder · Jan 31, 2019

How do I get example map? Link is busted.

Bribe · Jan 31, 2019

What do you mean? It works fine for me.

MageMarauder · Jan 31, 2019

Yep I am a goof. I was clicking "Just Another Warcraft III map" instead of the Download button lol. Fail. Sorry. New to site. Thanks for reply

MageMarauder · Jan 31, 2019

I am using your Unit Indexer and Damage System 4.0.
I can't seem to get this to work. I thought your system was super simple that I had to write 3 vars and call a trigger, but it is not working like I expected it to.
Any help would be appreciated. I need to heal_source to get a stored value to buff the heal.

Code:

Heals
    Events
        Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Heal ( Mine )
    Actions
        Set NextHealSource = (Triggering unit)
        Set NextHealTarget = (Targeted unit)
        Set NextHealAmount = (myStatMagic[(Custom value of (Triggering unit))] + 10.00)
        Trigger - Run Heal Unit <gen> (ignoring conditions)

Heal (Mine) is meant to just be a dummy ability that triggers your Heal Unit code from your test map. Thanks

Bribe · Jan 31, 2019

Can you please share more as to what isn't working? Your trigger looks fine.

MageMarauder · Jan 31, 2019

This trigger does not execute the Run Heal Unit trigger properly. Not much more I can say about it. I'll try to post a map with the issue.

MageMarauder · Jan 31, 2019

Just another Warcraft III map

That is the link to the map with the issue. Thanks for your help!

MageMarauder · Jan 31, 2019

To give more details. I have a spell that has a base heal of 10. And it is supposed to get augmented by the Heal Source's "Magic Stat" (just some integer stored in array) and add it to the base. Let's say it's Magic is 190 and the base is 10. I want to heal for 200. This allows the unit with a higher "Magic Stat" to heal more than someone with a lower "Magic Stat". However, the "Heal" ability might be breaking the system.

kentzeus · Nov 18, 2019

This is just great, I really love your contributions you're such a blessing for this community

Heal Event for GUI, version 1.1.1.1

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