All About Auto-Castable abilities that use Triggers

[Aoen]

I would like to make some auto-castable abilities for the heros in my map, but I do not completely understand how they work. For example, If I had an autocastable... searing arrows, but I wanted to make it GUI triggered instead, what would the EVENT for the trigger be(Unit Starts Casting an ability, begins casting, etc.)? As when I was experimenting I found that the event "A unit Starts the Effects of an Ability", which I usually use for my triggered abilities, only worked for the first time a unit is healed with the priest's "Heal" ability. So I would like to know how to have it detect when the heal ability is eing used.
Would it be like this?

Trigger1
Event - Unit Stats the effects of an ability
Conditions - Ability being cast = Heal
Actions - Set healBeingCast(Boolean) to True

Trigger2
Event - Unit Stops Casting an ability
Conditions - Ability being cast = Heal
Actions - Set healBeingCast(Boolean) to False

I would appreciate any help, thank you in advance.

 

[Pyritie]

do 'begins casting' as it fires every time it is 'casted' i.e. used, not just started and stopped.

 

[Xarwin]

Hmmm .. It isn't that simple.
It needs more triggers. I still have an old spell here which contains the activation and stuff, but not on this computer. I'll check it later.

 

[paskovich]

http://www.forums.hiveworkshop.com/showthread.php?t=27899
Check this out! Everything is written, all advantages and disadvantages of the triggers, and the whole thing. Be prepared for JASS... (Just because this cannot be done properly in GUI)

 

[Aoen]

http://www.forums.hiveworkshop.com/showthread.php?t=27899
Check this out! Everything is written, all advantages and disadvantages of the triggers, and the whole thing. Be prepared for JASS... (Just because this cannot be done properly in GUI)

Wow, that looks confusing, Could you just give me the script for detecting when the autocast is turned on, and when it is detected setting a Boolean value that can be used in GUI to true and vice versa for turning off the autocast?
If not I got an idea for an autocast. Basically it’s a unit ability, when you click on it, it removes the ability and adds any kind of passive ability that accomplishes the affect of your autocast (say +10 damage if your ability is searing arrows). Each time you attack, you lose a certain amount of mana, if you have no mana the passive ability is removed and the turn on autocast is once again added. I do not want to use this method however because it is not a familiar auto-cast system and people that play my rpg won’t like it, so… please give me the script /

 

[paskovich]

Event - Unit is issued an order
Cond -
-Or:
--Issued order is equal to "flamingarrows"
--Issued order is equal to "unflamingarrows"
Actions -
-If Issued order is equal to "flamingarrows"
--Set Boolean to true
-Else
--Set Boolean to false

If you just want to set a boolean, that's all...

 

[Aoen]

Wow, thanks, I don't see what else I would need? I set the triggering unit to a variable (since I don't need it to be multi-instanceable), and whenever that unit attacks or is attacked and the boolean is on I do certain actions. Thx for the help Pascovich!

 

[Aoen]

Paskovish, I just realized that ur method doesn't work effectively if you have one or more autocastable abilities made out of searing arrows :\. How do you make the trigger recognize the ability and not just the orderstring? You could use different auto-castable abilities, but eventually you would run out of them.

 

[paskovich]

Simply add the condition:
(Level of <Ability> for Triggering Unit) is greater then 0

Notice that, this will be buggy when you set a cooldown for the ability. Also when the unit runs out of mana, so add the condition to the 'Unit is attacked' trigger:
(Current mana of Attacking Unit) is greater than or equal to <manacost>

That's why arrow spells perfectly can ONLY be done in JASS!

PS. It's not Pascovich, not even Paskovish. It's paskovich...

 

[Aoen]

I know , the both times were typos .

 

[Drain Pipe]

Well i dunno, i have a .GUI version and it seems to run fine. I dunno, it's never leaked before and i haven't noticed any weirdness thus far although i know some problems may arise, i think a .GUI system can work fine within certain parameters, those being: the attacks hit before another attack is dealt, or other damage from the same target is registered. I haven't experienced any of the mentionned problems that have been mentionned; i dunno; it seems to run pretty smoothly for me..

 

[Xarwin]

That's why arrow spells perfectly can ONLY be done in JASS!

hmm not really, JASS just makes the spell faster, better, lesser leaks.
That doesn't say u need JASS for it.

 

[paskovich]

hmm not really, JASS just makes the spell faster, better, lesser leaks.
That doesn't say u need JASS for it.

Aarrghh! That's why i said "arrow spells PERFECTLY can only be done in JASS!"

That's what JASS makes to all spells, they're "faster, better, lesser leaks"...