[Spell] Adding autocasting Quil Spray spell on a Tower (TD)

[Morphie]

Hi.

My problem: I want to add an autocasting Quil Spray spell on my Razormane siege tower, the player may not be able to press the button but he should be able to hover over the button to read what it does.

I've created the spell out of Fan of Knives and added it on my tower, but it's not auto casting it :< how do I make it to work?

 

[defskull]

Does this Quil Spray activates once per attack ?
I mean, does this tower normal attack, is that Quil Spray ?
Or does this Quil Spray is secondary effect of this tower ?
Normal Attack + Quil Spray ?
OR
Normal Attack (Quil Spray) ?

Btw, does it have cooldown ?

 

[Morphie]

Hi thanks for reply

The tower is having a normal attack as well, I want the Quil Spray to be an auto casting spell on the tower. So yes, Normal attack + Quil Spray. The spray has 0.65 sec cooldown.

If I can get this to working and I understand how to create similar spells for towers, I will surely contribute my stuff to hive later on :>

 

[Adiktuz]

You can order the tower to cast it... but you can not disable the player from using it...

but you can do a workaround... add a passive skill to the tower with the quill spray tooltip...

then for every razormane tower, create a dummy caster at its location... now you can create a periodic trigger which makes the dummy casters use the quill spray every x seconds...

 

[Morphie]

Thanks for suggestion.

I've created the dummy caster, but most troubleing part is the trigger to spawn it on a tower, I simply can't do it I have no good examples to look at, I've gone through some tutorials but they are not helping much they seem more for advanced users.

If someone could teach me their way of making dummy caster triggers (and variables for them?) I would be most thankful.

 

[Adiktuz]

Once you create a tower, create the dummy caster and maybe use a hashtable to attach it to the specific tower... so that when the tower is sold/destroyed, you could destroy the dummy too...

 

[Morphie]

That is not helping me much. I need a visual idea of the triggers to do so, thanks anyway for trying.

 

[defskull]

A test map is attached

Mechanics:
1. When Guard Tower is constructed, a dummy unit is placed (no collision with the tower, therefore, it is located in the middle of the tower)
2. When the tower attack, it triggers the Fan of Knives of the dummy
3. Picks up only small range of AOE (100) around the tower (to make Tower A make Dummy A cast Fan of Knive)
4. If the tower is die, it picks up dummy unit and kill it
5. So, Tower A dies, Dummy A dies respectively
6. Cooldown of the knives is as you requested, 0.65 second.