Adding a chance componant to Spiked Carapace

[SolidSnak]

Hey all, I'm new both to this site and to modding Warcraft 3. I've been reading tutorials and playing around with the world editor, but I haven't found a way to modify some of the abilities in the ways I want to. My problem is simple, I want a passive ability that, like spiked carapace, damages attackers, but i don't want it to trigger all the time, just a certain percentage of the time.

can anyone help me with this?

-snak

edit: whoops wrong forum. There doesn't seem to be a way for me to delete this post, if a mod could either delete it or move it to the correct forum that would be great.

 

[Rui]

I believe that spell will have to be triggered. In that case, this belongs on the Spells and Systems forum.
~Thread Moved

 

[ady_illidan]

so you want to make a spiked carapace that has a chance to damage attackers?
it must be done with triggers and you will need to use a dummy aura for this. make a new spell based on an aura and set all bonuses to 0, make 4 different buffs for each level of ability (supposing your ability has 4 levels) and change targets allowed to Self. then make this trigger:

• Chance
  • Events
    • Unit - Your Unit Takes damage (you need a unit that is placed on the map)
  • Conditions
    • ((Damage source) is A melee attacker) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Set Var1 = (Random integer number between 1 and 100)
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • And - All (Conditions) are true
          • Conditions
            • (Your Unit has buff Your Buff Lv1) Equal to True
            • Var1 Less than or equal to 30
      • Then - Actions
        • Wait 0.15 seconds
        • Unit - Cause Your Unit to damage (Damage source), dealing ((Damage taken) / 6.70) damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • And - All (Conditions) are true
          • Conditions
            • (Your Unit has buff Your Buff Lv2) Equal to True
            • Var1 Less than or equal to 40
      • Then - Actions
        • Wait 0.15 seconds
        • Unit - Cause Your Unit to damage (Damage source), dealing ((Damage taken) / 5.00) damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal
      • Else - Actions
• continue for each level like this

first you need an integer. when the ability is level 1 it has a 30% chance to deal back to the melee attacker 15% of damage dealt to you
when the ability is level 2 it has a 40% chance to deal back to the melee attacker 20% of damage dealt to you
then continue with If\Then\Else for each level

 

[SolidSnak]

(helpful things)

Thanks, I'll look into that.

And I'm sorry for posting in all the wrong forums, I just didn't realize there were so many sub forums for specific things.