[Spell] Any way to make auras effect dead units?

[Nestharus]

=(


I tried devotion aura and changed its target to dead and it failed ;(


so anyone have any ideas? I think it'd be cool to have auras that effect dead units, like change decay time or have a chance to resurrect a dead unit with the aura whenever a live unit with the aura gets hit or w/e ; P


I've been coding an AuraStruct thingie and I've love to support dead units : )


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nvm, I decided to expand the way conditions are done to be able to allow for anything, even beyond what wc3 is capable of ^)^.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Why don't you make a fake one? Display a special effect at the position of the dead unit (as if it's affected by the aura)? I guess that's the only one that should concern you; everything else will be scripted.

 

[Nestharus]

Because I need the aura to see if the aura belongs on the unit or not ; O.


I'm abusing the auras for in range etc.


Also, apparently UnitInRangeEvent doesn't fire for dead units... so that breaks my entire design already >.>.

 

[Pharaoh_]

When the unit dies, add it in a global group and fire a timer when it starts to decay; the timer can be configurable, depending either on the death time of the unit in the object editor or the gameplay constants. Then, loop through the global group and check the distance between the x/y of the aura bearer; if it is less or equal to the range of the skill, it can be affected. In order to prevent them from getting affected twice or replace higher level of auras with lower ones affecting them at the same time, again, a global group sounds like the way to go.

Edit: my fault, you register units with the inrange event. You could register the event for the dead units, not the aura bearer though. I think that would work.

 

[Nestharus]

InRange doesn't work with dead units ;p.


Also, ur design was kind of bad. You'd actually want to do it with a 2D Tree.


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My design works again, it just can't work with dead units ; O.


My design actually got a bit simpler since dead units don't fire in range. They do fire in range when they get revived tho ^_^.

 

[Ultimatony]

when something dies create a dummy unit over it with same custom value as what died?

 

[Spartipilo]

Why don't you revive dead units and Hide them/make them invisible/make them invulnerable but play their dead/decay animation / cast ethereal/banish on them so they're not dead to the system, but dead to the player, and make the aura effect work based on that? Revert the process if you're resurrecting them.

Then dead units don't have to 'dissapear'. They can be wandering spirits, or morph into some other 'form life', or whatever Design your own dead system, and forget the WC3 one.

 

[Nestharus]

this is for a wc3 Aura system, so I can't do that -.-


I can't do anything that modifies the gameplay, that's the limit to making a system ; P.

 

[PurgeandFire]

As ultimatony said, just make a dummy over each corpse and then register. To save event/unit handles, just keep a stack of dummies and recycle them when a corpse unit is deindexed. At least use that method until you can find another.

 

[Bribe]

GroupEnumUnitsInRange with a null filter and a FirstOfGroup loop isn't a bad approach to this.

 

[Nestharus]

Bribe, I will never use group enum ;p.

 

[Bribe]

Your K2 tree would have to do a lot better in efficiency for anyone to use it as it'd be 1000x more lines of code.