adding blood effect to wounded heroes

[emil23]

Hi my map is rpg so i would like to make a system where hero is bleeding after his hp is bellow 25% how can i do that? i also must remove the effect when hero dies? and i surley want the effect to be gone after he heals

 

[Warseeker]

Special effects. Create a trigger that fires when a hero's HP drop below 25% then create the special effect and remove it after he dies or when he's healed up.

 

[Cespie]

Special effects. Create a trigger that fires when a hero's HP drop below 25% then create the special effect and remove it after he dies or when he's healed up.

What he said, but if you're new to special effects, I wanna remind you that the bleeding animations don't usually loop. There's probably an appropriate way to make that the case, but from what I know, I'd focus on 2 things:

1. Make sure that you delete the animations right after playing them. Otherwise, they will leak memory, even if they aren't visible anymore.
2. To create a fake loop of sorts, you can make the bleed effect periodical, using a unit group of bleeding units. Then you loop through this group periodically, check if they have been healed above 25% hp or not, remove them from the group if they have, and play the bleed animation on them if they haven't.

 

[emil23]

What he said, but if you're new to special effects, I wanna remind you that the bleeding animations don't usually loop. There's probably an appropriate way to make that the case, but from what I know, I'd focus on 2 things:

1. Make sure that you delete the animations right after playing them. Otherwise, they will leak memory, even if they aren't visible anymore.
2. To create a fake loop of sorts, you can make the bleed effect periodical, using a unit group of bleeding units. Then you loop through this group periodically, check if they have been healed above 25% hp or not, remove them from the group if they have, and play the bleed animation on them if they haven't.

What about making ability and giving this ability blood animation on chest? Then making it invisible and requiring upgrade

 

[Cespie]

What about making ability and giving this ability blood animation on chest? Then making it invisible and requiring upgrade

Pretty sure that the animation still just fires once when the ability is learned, and then never plays again. Looping animations is kind of a bitch in Warcraft 3, and I have no idea if there's an easy fix other than editing the model of the effect itself, which I have zero proficiency in.

 

[emil23]

Pretty sure that the animation still just fires once when the ability is learned, and then never plays again. Looping animations is kind of a bitch in Warcraft 3, and I have no idea if there's an easy fix other than editing the model of the effect itself, which I have zero proficiency in.

Can you give me example how to store effect into value then remove it? For location i know its easy since u do temploc add effect at temploc then remove but specail effect part is kinda confusing for me

 

[Cespie]

Can you give me example how to store effect into value then remove it? For location i know its easy since u do temploc add effect at temploc then remove but specail effect part is kinda confusing for me

Actually, special effects are amongst the easiest things to clean!
You can literally call the GUI function "Destroy special effect" right after playing it. This will still allow the special effect to finish its animation, but will clean up the memory leak.

 

[Pyrogasm]

You can literally call the GUI function "Destroy special effect" right after playing it. This will still allow the special effect to finish its animation, but will clean up the memory leak.

Kinda. It will play the death animation of the model if it has one, otherwise it will play out its default animation for as long as it lasts.

 

[emil23]

Actually, special effects are amongst the easiest things to clean!
You can literally call the GUI function "Destroy special effect" right after playing it. This will still allow the special effect to finish its animation, but will clean up the memory leak.

But i mean i want effect to last untill unit dies or gets healed so i guess i shouldnt remove him insta after adding?

 

[GIMLI_2]

You can do sth like this if you dont have a permanent bleeding effect. destroying an effect right after you create it will still play its (death) animation


trigger 1:
Unit takes damage

if (hp below 25% and unit is not in unit group)
then
add unit to unitgroup



trigger 2:
every x seconds

pick every unit in unitgroup
if (hp of picked unit above 25%)
then
remove unit from unitgroup
else
play bleeding effect
destroy effect

 

[emil23]

Pretty sure that the animation still just fires once when the ability is learned, and then never plays again. Looping animations is kind of a bitch in Warcraft 3, and I have no idea if there's an easy fix other than editing the model of the effect itself, which I have zero proficiency in.

You can do sth like this if you dont have a permanent bleeding effect. destroying an effect right after you create it will still play its (death) animation


trigger 1:
Unit takes damage

if (hp below 25% and unit is not in unit group)
then
add unit to unitgroup



trigger 2:
every x seconds

pick every unit in unitgroup
if (hp of picked unit above 25%)
then
remove unit from unitgroup
else
play bleeding effect
destroy effect

i think i will just base it on ability which adds special attachment give ability to unit then remove, since this way seems the simplest for me do you think it can cause memory leaks?

 

[GIMLI_2]

You can do that, but that wont change a lot. You have to use the same trigger with some adjustments

 

[Cespie]

Kinda. It will play the death animation of the model if it has one, otherwise it will play out its default animation for as long as it lasts.

Great to know.
I guess in this case, it works either way.

 

[Uncle]

@emil23
Remember that Damage Detection System that I used for your Greater Bash skill? You can use that same system to find when your Heroes drop below 25% health. Something like:
Event
DamageEvent Becomes Equal to 1.00
Actions:
If DamageEventTarget is a Hero equal to True and DamageEventTarget's life is less than or equal to 25.00% then Add the Bleed Effect ability to DamageEventTarget.

Then do what GIMLI_2 said and add the unit to a Unit Group so you can detect when it's life is > 25.00% and remove the Bleed Effect ability from it.