ability shooting.. thing.. help :p

[Anti_Bodies]

Helloo so in my map it starts as a 1st person shooter in space bascily. Out of all my experience making maps, abilities are my weakpoint. What i specificly dont know how to do is that i want to have an ability fire a laser straight from whatever angle the ship is at, without you having to select anything. you just press "fire" and it shoots out a laser straight out and will hit whatever it encounters. any help is appreciated.

 

[KingBob]

Copy Impale or shock wave as a dummy spell, make it cost 0 mana, have 0 cooldown time, etc... that's your laser.

Then make a dummy unit, abilities = locust, invulnerable, dummy ability; model = none; shadow = none; HP = 10; HP regen = -1 (hold shift as you click the field to enter negatives)

Make another spell to give your unit based on Channel (type ctrl+f to find it). set the effects to whatever, disable other abilities = false, Options = Visible, Target Type = instant, Base Order ID = anything you're not using somewhere else, other things to whatever...

Add these variables in the trigger editor...
TempLoc = Point variable
AnotherTempLoc = another Point variable

Now, add this for a trigger...

• Awesome Trigger
• Events
  • A unit begins casting an ability
• Conditions
  • (Ability being cast) Equal to Channel Ability
• Actions
  • Set TempLoc = (Position of (Triggering unit))
  • Set AnotherTempLoc = (TempLoc offset by 100.00 towards (Facing of (Triggering unit)) degrees)
  • Unit - Create 1 Footman for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) at TempLoc facing AnotherTempLoc
  • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Undead Crypt Lord - Impale AnotherTempLoc
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_TempLoc)
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_AnotherTempLoc)

That should work, hope this helps!

 

[Anti_Bodies]

okay for when im making my second ability, should it be based off Posession (channeling) because thats what comes up when i do ctrl-f and type in channel.

Edit: nevermind. i manually found the ability "channel". ill let u know how this goes.

Edit2: So its not completly working. It does 1 damage to the unit and i cannot see the projectile.


Events
Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
Conditions
(Ability being cast) Equal to Fire
Actions
Set TempLoc = (Position of (Triggering unit))
Set AnotherTempLoc = (TempLoc offset by 100.00 towards (Facing of (Triggering unit)) degrees)
Unit - Create 1 Dummy for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) at TempLoc facing AnotherTempLoc
Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Orc Tauren Chieftain - Shockwave AnotherTempLoc
Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_TempLoc)
Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_AnotherTempLoc)


Dummy is my dummy unit
Fire is the channel spell. and the dummy spell is based off orc tauren chiften shockwave

so am i doing somthing wrong with my triggers? or will we have to look over my abilities :/

 

[KingBob]

Your trigger is fine, so it must be the ability.

Compare yours to mine in this map:

 

[Anti_Bodies]

perfect. thanks for ur help.

edit: is there away to make it so that u dont have 2 abilities? like can we somehow cloak one of them?

 

[Da)sniper]

You could make no icon for the shockwave/impale or for the channel look for "Options" on the bottom of the spell and uncheck visable.

 

[KingBob]

You don't have to cloak anything, just give the "Fire" ability to the person firing. In my map I gave the testing guy both just to make sure the dummy ability was done right, so you can just get rid of it on the caster.