Auto-Cast error...

[Big Dub]

Ok here is the rundown of the issue. Im making a game in which the attacks arent like normal. each unit has 4 universal skills. Morale, Experience, Weapons, and Training. When a unit uses its attack ability, a dummy spell based off slow which can be set to autocast, it calculates based off the level of these abilities and how many ppl are left in the unit, hp how much damage they should do. Problem is they arent auto 'attacking'.

For the attack ability I set both Durations to 0.01 Cooldown to 3.00 priority to 1 but i dont think those effect the autocast.

What I need to know is why the autocast isnt working. Also the units run because the dont have a normal attack so they run like they were peons, is there a way to stop this?

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Also I need triggers to make all selected units use thier attack ability on an enemy unit that is right clicked on. Is this possible?

 

[spiwn]

Yes everything you want is possible.
In a few, I will edit this.
First of all note that the "autocasts" blizzard made are not really autocasts as you know them.
When something happens(a unit with searing arrows attacks and etc) units are ordered to cast their spell.
When you remove the normal attack, you remove the event which makes units cast slow(for example; you can try and see if a sorceress would cast slow on a unit that does not attack(or whatever the event that fires slow is)).

Disabling "running" is easy - in the object editor disable unit flee or something.

For the autocasts. The way I can think of is rather simple.
Every few seconds(0.5 for example) order every unit with one of it's autocast abilities turned on to cast it.
For finding which unit has some autocast ability turned on, you should put units in a group when they activate an autocast and remove them when they deactivate it. Meaning you will have 4 groups(for morale, for experience, for weapons, for training, for attack).
So every few seconds you pick all units in some group.
Depending on the targeting of the spells you will have a different number of "pick up and order" triggers.
If it is attack, you will have to order the unit to cast it's attack autocast ability on some unit(if there is a unit curently "attacked" by the unit you want to order to "attack", you should order it to "attack" that unit).
This a what I thought of, but "attacking" like this is tricky, but about the other stuff will work easy.

 

[Big Dub]

About the "Every few seconds(0.5 for example) order every unit with one of it's autocast abilities turned on to cast it..." How am I supposed to do that when the spell requires a target?

 

[spiwn]

That is what I meant by tricky as attacking usually requires a target.
Simplest thing - pick a random unit from units within range.
NO, it better be First unit of unit group ( units within range).
I am not too sure about this one, but I think that will make the unit attack one unit continuously.
The range should be equal to the acquisition range(750 for example) casting range of the autocast spell should be 600(for example; or 130-200 for a melee range attacl) so that it would look like a normal attack.
But when you are ordering some unit to "attack" you should check the current order to see if it is not moving to "attack" at the moment.

 

[Big Dub]

This whole thing isnt working, I will just set the units attack to 1 damage. It kinda matches the game a little, perhaps they lose a man simply from the exhaustion of combat? But if you can find a simpleway to replace the attack lets go with that.

 

[spiwn]

You can set the attack to 0-0 ( base damage: -1 (shift click), dice: 1, sides per die: 1).

 

[Big Dub]

I didnt know you could set it to -1, ty. Now Im having issues, they dont always use thier 'attack' and is there a way that 'attack' starts on auto?

 

[spiwn]

Yes you can by holding shift(not sure which one) and then clicking on the filed(double click or enter).
That is normal - you based it on slow. Base it on searing arrows.
Not too sure if you could set" 'attack' starts on auto" from the object editor(I kinda doubt it).
But you can make a trigger similar to this:
Event
A unit enters playable map area
Conditions
Triggering unit has "attack"
Actions
Order triggering unit to night elf P.o.t.m. activate searing arrows
(I am not using trigger tags, as I am just writing this)

 

[Big Dub]

Alright Thanks, Will try!

 

[Big Dub]

Ok there is an issue, they never actually cast it. It takes the mana but they dont 'CAST'.

 

[spiwn]

Cast what !??
I also have an issue the spell I made does not work!
Can you find out what the problem is with that much info.
P.s. Double posting is "bad"

 

[Big Dub]

its wierd, When a spell auto casts they do not cast it each time, it more just reads that it is on and does the effect... its wierd to explain. So for trigger's sakes the spell is only cast if you do it manually, otherwise it just takes mana. Does that make sense?

 

[spiwn]

No : )
Or you order the unit to cast it too often.

 

[Big Dub]

ok... When you click on searing arrows and then click on a target searing arrows goes green until the target is in range then the button is pressed and the ability is cast. When the ability is done casting the button is depressed and stops being green. According to the triggers this ability has just been cast.

When using autocast on searing arrows the button never goes green or presses and depresses but it still takes mana and effects projectiles. According to the triggers this ability was never cast.

That clairify?

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Perhaps there is a different event besides "when unit begins effect of spell" that could be used to solve problem?

 

[spiwn]

You based it on searing arrows?
I think mana is drained from something else.

 

[Big Dub]

Maybe I can do it all triggers, When unit is attacked, if attacker has ability, do damage zzz Why did I not think of this earlier... I will post if it works.

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Ehh I cant find a way to check condition "if unit has ability" zzz point me to it?

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found a way, if lvl of ability for unit is greater than 0, Is there an easier way?

 

[spiwn]

That has issues - (the whole abusable, attack detection systems routine goes here).
Using a searing arrows based spell to do the damage without any triggers for the damage is preferable. But you will be confined to a couple of amounts of damage.
I guess the problem was caused by you.

 

[Big Dub]

You seemed not to understand, I was using triggers from the begining.

Here is the function that would calculate damage based on what abilities they had

function CalcHit takes unit A, unit D, boolean r returns real
    local integer Alvl = GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A000', A)
    local integer Dlvl = GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A000', D)
    local integer Amor = GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A001', A)
    local integer Dmor = GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A001', D)
    local integer Aexp = GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A002', A)
    local integer Dexp = GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A002', D)
    local integer Awep = GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A003', A)
    local integer Apop = R2I(GetUnitStateSwap(UNIT_STATE_LIFE, A))
    local integer Arol = (((GetRandomInt(1, 10) + Alvl)*5) + Aexp) + Amor
    local integer Drol = (((GetRandomInt(1, 10) + Dlvl)*5) + Dexp) + Dmor
    local integer dmg = 0
    local integer Amin = 0
    local integer Amax = 0
    local integer Dmin = 0
    local integer Dmax = 0
    local texttag ae = CreateTextTag()
    local texttag de = CreateTextTag()
    if r then
        set dmg = ((GetRandomInt((Apop / 6), (Apop / 4))-(Apop / 8)) + Awep) + (Amor - Dmor)
        set Amin = (25-(Alvl*2)) - Amor
        set Amax = (105-Alvl) - Amor
        set Dmin = (35+(Dlvl*2)) + Dmor
        set Dmax = (105-Dlvl) - Dmor
    else
        set dmg = (GetRandomInt((Apop / 6), (Apop / 4)) + Awep) + (Amor - Dmor)
        set Amin = (20-(Alvl*2)) - Amor
        set Amax = (100-Alvl) - Amor
        set Dmin = (30+(Dlvl*2)) + Dmor
        set Dmax = (100-Dlvl) - Dmor
    endif
    if (Alvl > 0)then
    if (Arol <= Amin) then
       set dmg = 0
       call SetTextTagText(ae,"Miss!", 0.024)
       call SetTextTagPos(ae, GetUnitX(A), GetUnitY(A), 0.00)
       call SetTextTagColor(ae, 255, 0, 0, 255)
       call SetTextTagVelocity(ae, 0, 0.04)
       call SetTextTagVisibility(ae, true)
       call SetTextTagFadepoint(ae, 2)
       call SetTextTagLifespan(ae, 5)
       call SetTextTagPermanent(ae, false)
    endif
    if (Arol >= Amax) then
       set dmg = dmg * 2
       call SetTextTagText(ae,"Crit!", 0.024)
       call SetTextTagPos(ae, GetUnitX(A), GetUnitY(A), 0.00)
       call SetTextTagColor(ae, 255, 0, 0, 255)
       call SetTextTagVelocity(ae, 0, 0.04)
       call SetTextTagVisibility(ae, true)
       call SetTextTagFadepoint(ae, 2)
       call SetTextTagLifespan(ae, 5)
       call SetTextTagPermanent(ae, false)
    endif
    endif
    if (Dlvl > 0) then
    if (Drol <= Dmin) then
       set dmg = dmg / 2
       call SetTextTagText(de,"Block!", 0.024)
       call SetTextTagPos(de, GetUnitX(D), GetUnitY(D), 0.00)
       call SetTextTagColor(de, 0, 0, 255, 255)
       call SetTextTagVelocity(de, 0, 0.04)
       call SetTextTagVisibility(de, true)
       call SetTextTagFadepoint(de, 2)
       call SetTextTagLifespan(de, 5)
       call SetTextTagPermanent(de, false)
    endif
    if (Drol >= Dmax) then
       set dmg = 0
       call SetTextTagText(de,"Dodge!", 0.024)
       call SetTextTagPos(de, GetUnitX(D), GetUnitY(D), 0.00)
       call SetTextTagColor(de, 0, 0, 255, 255)
       call SetTextTagVelocity(de, 0, 0.04)
       call SetTextTagVisibility(de, true)
       call SetTextTagFadepoint(de, 2)
       call SetTextTagLifespan(de, 5)
       call SetTextTagPermanent(de, false)
    endif
    endif
    set ae = null
    set de = null
    set A = null
    set D = null
    return I2R(dmg)
endfunction

here is the trigger I made to check if they had the ability in the first place.

function Trig_Attacks_Conditions takes nothing returns boolean
    if ( ( GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A006', GetAttacker()) > 0 ) ) then
        return true
    endif
    if ( ( GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A007', GetAttacker()) > 0 ) ) then
        return true
    endif
    return false
endfunction

function Trig_Attacks_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
     local unit u = GetAttacker()
     local unit t = GetAttackedUnitBJ()
     local real dmg = 0
     if ( ( GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A006', GetAttacker()) > 0 ) ) then
         set dmg = CalcHit( u, t, false)
         call UnitDamageTargetEx(u, t, dmg, ATTACK_TYPE_NORMAL, DAMAGE_TYPE_ATTACK, true)
     endif
     if ( ( GetUnitAbilityLevelSwapped('A007', GetAttacker()) > 0 ) ) then
         set dmg = CalcHit( u, t, true)
         call UnitDamageTargetEx(u, t, dmg, ATTACK_TYPE_NORMAL, DAMAGE_TYPE_ATTACK, true)
     endif
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_Attacks takes nothing returns nothing
    set gg_trg_Attacks = CreateTrigger(  )
    call TriggerRegisterAnyUnitEventBJ( gg_trg_Attacks, EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_ATTACKED )
    call TriggerAddCondition( gg_trg_Attacks, Condition( function Trig_Attacks_Conditions ) )
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Attacks, function Trig_Attacks_Actions )
endfunction

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Wow just noticed I have an info leak there.

 

[spiwn]

I understood, but using a trigger like that, will damage the target before the projectile hits the target.
Using an autocastable dummy spell is still preferable, since the damaging will be done only when the spell is activated, not every time you press stop.

 

[Big Dub]

I see... I dont think there is a way to tell when it hits... Is there an event that tells when a generic unit is damaged?

 

[spiwn]

There are always the attack detection systems.
But a major reason for people to use them is to prevent abusal.