AoE knockback and attack speed spell.

[Doompenguin]

Hey there, i need help with 2 spells. The first one is a passive ability that gives the hero 0.5/1.0/1.5% attack speed for each point of strength he has. That advanced trigger was the only one i could find that could increase attack rate for a hero/unit. The spell doesnt have to be MUI, i would prefer if it could be done in GUI, but jass is ok too.

• Holy Strength
  • Events
    • Unit - Lieutenant 0318 <gen> Learns a skill
  • Conditions
    • (Learned Hero Skill) Equal to Special Chen - Attribute Bonus
  • Actions
    • Advanced - For (Owner of Lieutenant 0318 <gen>) Increase attack rate for all units that use the Human Upgrade Set 1 by (((Real((Level of Holy Strength for Lieutenant 0318 <gen>))) x 0.50) x (Real((Strength of Lieutenant 0318 <gen> (Include bonuses)))))

I made a spell named protect, which i based on banish.
You cast it on a unit friendly or unfriendly, and all units around that unit gets knockbacked+slowed+damaged.
This is what i have done so far:

• ProtectINIT
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Protect
  • Actions
    • Set ProtectCaster = (Triggering unit)
    • Set ProtectTarget = (Target unit of ability being cast)
    • Trigger - Turn on ProtectEffect <gen>

• ProtectEffect
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.01 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set ProtectTargetGrp = (Units within (100.00 + (50.00 x (Real((Level of Protect for ProtectCaster))))) of (Position of ProtectTarget) matching ((((Matching unit) is A structure) Equal to False) and (((Matching unit) belongs to an enemy of (Owner of ProtectCaster)) Equal to True)))
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • KnockbackCounter Less than 5.00
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Dummy for (Owner of ProtectCaster) at ProtectCasterLoc facing Default building facing (270.0) degrees
        • Unit - Add ProtectDummy to (Last created unit)
        • Unit - Set level of ProtectDummy for (Last created unit) to (Level of Protect for ProtectCaster)
        • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Human Mountain King - Thunder Clap
        • Unit Group - Pick every unit in ProtectTargetGrp and do (Unit - Move (Picked unit) instantly to ((Position of (Picked unit)) offset by 60.00 towards (Angle from (Position of ProtectCaster) to (Position of (Picked unit))) degrees))
        • Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Position of (Picked unit)) using Abilities\Spells\Human\FlakCannons\FlakTarget.mdl
        • Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)
        • Set KnockbackCounter = (KnockbackCounter + 1.00)
      • Else - Actions
        • Set KnockbackCounter = 0.00
        • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)

The problem is that it only knocks the units back, and the flakcannons special effect doesnt get attached and neither does the dummy unit use ProtectDummy (thunderclap).

 

[Landy]

OMFG WEU triggers O_O

 

[Silvenon]

Speical effect won't show because you put the Picked Unit as an argument, which is 'no unit'/null, I'll explain why. If you want to do multiple actions with a unit group, use Pick Every Unit In Unit Group And Do Multiple Actions. Your way won't work because you used a single action type, the action that only allows you to do one action per unit.

I don't exactly see why the dummy unit won't cast, check:

- if the mana cost of ProtectDummy is 0
- if ProtectDummy ability even works
- if ProtectDummy is a unit ability
- if ProtectCasterLoc is declared, because I don't see where you declared it

Uhmm don't you want to add an expiration timer for that dummy unit? And don't forget to destroy ProtectCasterLoc with Custom Script: call RemoveLocation(udg_ProtectCasterLoc)

OMFG WEU triggers O_O

Grrrr if you don't have anything useful to say, don't say anything at all. There is just one miserable advanced action and you instantly go "OMFG".

 

[Asgard_Ragna]

@Autor: I think WEU doesn't work with the newest version of Wc3.

 

[Jirinal]

It does work, but i wont recommend weu, it makes you lazy and you wont learn much from using all these premade actions.
WEU is for lazy asses^^

 

[Dr Super Good]

Do not bother using WEU, it does nothing at all well.

Well the answer is simple, you can not unlearn technologies and thus the attack upgrade is permanant. I recomend using jass like usual since it is more efficent and less buggy.

 

[Silvenon]

I don't know what's the fuss about, he has one miserable advanced action. It has useful actions like Unit - Add Hero Glow, now that's really useful. I have no idea how they did that

 

[Jirinal]

No its easy, first you download the heroglow model. Then you attach the special effect by using a invisible ability. Like the Fountain Healing thingy, without healing.
And there you go, Heroglow without Weu.

 

[Silvenon]

Well, I searched for hero glow model for some time and I couldn't find it anywhere. Do you know where it is then?

 

[Jirinal]

The last time i found mine was on thehelper, i used the search engine there and found it after several minutes. Maybe google would help.

 

[Doompenguin]

I made it work now, the problem was that protectcasterloc wasnt defined. When i try to make a custom script to remove it, it makes an error when i try to enable it which goes (line 209: expected a name) I tried to copy the exact removelocation script from another one of my triggers and replacing the variable name in case i had done osmething wrong but it just wont work. Any ideas?

 

[Silvenon]

It's hard to tell like this, do you mind posting the code? This way I'm not certain, maybe you didn't did write properly Custom Script: call RemoveLocation(udg_ProtectCasterLoc). Just remember, every global has a prefix udg_.