Ability is displayed pale

[proudmer22]

Hello! My goal is to create an ability for hero which gives him n% to apply "poison" effect(reduced movement speed and damage over time) when attacking an enemy.

So I created custom ability based on "Orb of slow" item anf then gave it "Shadow strike" ability as a test. For some reason it displays like that:
Is there a solution for this?

 

[Uncle]

Why don't you just use Slow Poison, it already does this.

And no you cannot change that when using the Orbs.

 

[proudmer22]

Why don't you just use Slow Poison, it already does this.

And no you cannot change that when using the Orbs.

My spell will be called "Bleeding" and should have blood art effects instead of poison art effect. And for some reason I can't change "poison" effect on "Slow poison" spell. There is no art effect specified in the spell.

 

[Uncle]

It's Art is setup in the buff.

 

[proudmer22]

It's Art is setup in the buff.

Sorry I completely forgot - I need % chance to apply bleeding effect for an enemy. Slow poison ability always applies this effect.

 

[Uncle]

Ah, okay, well you may be able to fix it using this:

• Unit - For (Triggering unit), Ability Animate Dead, Disable ability: False, Hide UI: False

Test it out on both abilities (Orb + Shadow Strike). It might make the Icon normal again.

Or maybe just this:

• Unit - For (Triggering unit), Ability Animate Dead, Hide ability: False

 

[proudmer22]

Ah, okay, well you may be able to fix it using this:

• Unit - For (Triggering unit), Ability Animate Dead, Disable ability: False, Hide UI: False

Test it out on both abilities (Orb + Shadow Strike). It might make the Icon normal again.

Or maybe just this:

• Unit - For (Triggering unit), Ability Animate Dead, Hide ability: False

Neither of these triggers worked unfortunately. Even tried Hiding ability: True\False in a sequence.

So I guess the only option is to script the percentage chance? With separate Caster which would apply a spell to every unit player attacks?

 

[Uncle]

You could also hide the button for the Shadow Strike ability so it doesn't display at all. And then add a new ability to the Hero using something like Storm Hammer (Passive with no effect) that's used purely for a tooltip/icon.

Otherwise, script it with a Damage Engine and have a Dummy cast Shadow Strike on the damaged unit.

Those Orb abilities are glitchy anyway, they only proc if you issue an attack order directly, it'll never proc when your unit automatically acquires a target and autoattacks.

 

[proudmer22]

Should I be worried about too many script events running at the same time?

 

[Uncle]

What do you mean? Like re-using Events such as "A unit starts the effect of an ability" over and over again?

As long as you're handling variables properly and cleaning up leaks you should be fine.

 

[proudmer22]

What do you mean? Like re-using Events such as "A unit starts the effect of an ability" over and over again?

As long as you're handling variables properly and cleaning up leaks you should be fine.

I mean "Events" triggers and low-latency triggers - How do they get processed by the game? If there is a heavy code in trigger will game process it in one frame or not?
Also another trigger question: If I run trigger from another trigger - will the calling trigger wait for the called trigger to finish?

At the end of "Restore Units" trigger I have another test message

So in my tests it seems like the calling trigger always waits for the called trigger to run the code. Is this always the case? Sorry there's not much info about this. I often use trigger as universal functions and call them and I worry that on lower-end there will be issues.

 

[Uncle]

It should process it in the same frame although I don't know much about the matter. I'm sure there's ways to break it with using unsafe methods. But what you're doing looks to be perfectly fine.

When you run a trigger, that triggers Actions are basically inserted at the position of your Trigger - Run action. So if Run StoreUnit creates a Footman, and Run RestoreUnits creates a Knight, that example you posted would always be structured like so:

Order of execution
1) Create 1 Footman
2) Create 1 Knight
3) Display Text Message