[Trigger] A little help with the a triggered spell

[Fimbus]

I was in the middle of making a spell, giving bonus damage to a unit.
The tricky part is it is needed to be based on the hero's strenght.
I thought it wouldn't be much of a deal but after looking for quite a while I couldn't find a trigger giving the unit bonus damage.
So my question to you people is; is this spell possible?

 

[xXMephistoXx]

You could make one spell with extremely many levels with damage bonus and one dummy spell to cast. When you cast teh dummy spell you use a trigger to add the +damage spell and let the level of the +damage spell be based on your strength. And I'm sure there's an easier way to do this.

 

[Element of Water]

I'd use item abilities if I were you.

 

[Fimbus]

I'd use item abilities if I were you.

How would you use item abilities?

 

[Name_n]

Well what he meant by that..

making the bonus damage based on the Hero's strength does require some work. First you need to copy any one of the item's damage ability (e.g. claws of attack) and give it a LOT of levels.

CONDITION - [Integer (or real?)] Hero's strength = 20
ACTION - [Unit - ] Set level of [Bonus Damage ability] to _ <----- place number here.

Now if you want this to range 'smoothly', you must create lots and lots of levels for the damage ability.

 

[Element of Water]

Basically, make an ability based on item damage bonus + 15 (or whatever), turn it into a normal ability, add about 200 levels with damage bonuses of 1 through 200 (or whatever you want), and in the trigger, do
unit add ability (your dummy ability)
set ability level (your dummy ability, Real(get level of dummy ability for your unit)*your unit's strength)

 

[Soga-]

It may also help instead to use these item abilities with 9 levels each, and each ability would represent a digit. You would then add them in combinations to give the desired bonus damage without having to resort to many levels for each ability.

You would have an ability which has 9 levels and gives +1 damage per level. Another ability has 9 levels, but gives +10 per level.

If I wanted +52, I would just set the first ability level to 2, and the second ability level to 5. Simple, no?

 

[MYHummeR]

Hero - Modify hero attributes add (number) strenght to (Triggering Unit)

 

[Element of Water]

He doesn't want to increase strength! He just wants to increase the unit's attack damage by an amount depending on its strength, when it's under the effects of some buff.

 

[Rmx]

Well i say make a triger whenever a unit attack it will deal the amount of strenght to the attacked unit BUT it will not show the damage in the game like 55 - 65 +23 it will not show the +23 this triger is like URSA in DOTA his 3rd skill but now it's renewed

 

[Element of Water]

There is a slight problem with your idea, Rmx - when a trigger detects "when a unit is attacked", it means when it's ABOUT to attack. It can still be stopped before it actually does attack. Your way would bug when this happens. The only way to solve that is to use a damage detection engine, which, unfortunately, are only available in Jass.

 

[Super-Sheep]

Make item with 100 levels.
- Level 1 - 1dmg
- Level 2 - 2dmg
- ...

Unit uses ability
Add ability DAMAGE to triggering unit
Set level of DAMAGE for triggering unit to Real(Strenght of triggering unit)
Wait 10.00 seconds
Remove DAMAGE from triggering unit

 

[Soga-]

It may also help instead to use these item abilities with 9 levels each, and each ability would represent a digit. You would then add them in combinations to give the desired bonus damage without having to resort to many levels for each ability.

You would have an ability which has 9 levels and gives +1 damage per level. Another ability has 9 levels, but gives +10 per level.

If I wanted +52, I would just set the first ability level to 2, and the second ability level to 5. Simple, no?

This system is much more efficient and allows for greater ranges of bonus damage without significant detrimental effect to performance (albeit a pre-loading time).

 

[Fimbus]

Thanks alot people. I knew I could count on you.
+Rep to the ones who helped
Okay, so here is the trigger

• Events
• Unit - A unit Begins casting a spell
• Conditions
• (Ability Being Cast) Equal to Armor of Darkness
• Set AOD_Caster = (Casting Unit)
• If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
• If - Conditions
• Or - Any (Conditions) are true
• Conditions
• (Unit-type of (Target unit of ability being cast) Equal to Ancient Warrior (Level 1)
• (Unit-type of (Target unit of ability being cast) Equal to Ancient Warrior (Level 2)
• (Unit-type of (Target unit of ability being cast) Equal to Ancient Warrior (Level 3)
• (Unit-type of (Target unit of ability being cast) Equal to Ancient Warrior (Level 4)
• Then - Actions
• Set AOD_Strenght = (Real((Strenght of AOD_Caster (Include Bonuses))))
• Set AOD_Target = (Target unit of ability being cast)
• Unit - Add AOD to AOD_Target
• Unit - Set level of AOD for AOD_Target to ((Integer(AOD_Strenght)) +0)
• Wait - 10.00 seconds
• Unit - Remove AOD from AOD_Target
• Else - Actions
• Do Nothing

But it lacks like hell the first time it's used. Anyone got an idea how to stop that?

 

[Soga-]

Like I said, there's gonna be preloading time. Just reserve a bit of time at the beginning of the game to pre-load that ability.

 

[Fimbus]

Like I said, there's gonna be preloading time. Just reserve a bit of time at the beginning of the game to pre-load that ability.

Ow yea. Missed that part. Thanks again
BTW, do you guys think I should upload this to the spell section, or is it too simple?

 

[Element of Water]

nah too simple to upload

 

[Fimbus]

That's what I thought.
But thanks to everybody. This really helped me and my map
*Thread Solved*

 

[Palaslayer]

sry, in some sections of gui i still do not know anything

how do i preload something and what does it do? ^^

 

[Fimbus]

sry, in some sections of gui i still do not know anything

how do i preload something and what does it do? ^^

As far as I know preloading is made by just waiting for the trigger to be loaded.
This is done because this spell (and others) will lack in the beginning. Waiting a little will prevent this, if I've understood correctly

 

[Element of Water]

When you say "lack", you probably mean "lag", Fimbus btw.

Some things are not loaded originally at the start of the map. You need to use these things somehow at the beginning of the map in order for it not to have to load them when you need them, which will make the map lag for a few seconds.