[JASS] Beginner Question

[Virenerus]

hiho
I started yesterday in learning JASS with the help of some tutorials
I followed the beginners tutorial to the end and now I tried to advance the created spell a bit.
I tried to add an attack animation and a short waiting phase cause my unit is teleporting in notime between the enemies (you just see the specialeffect)

function Slash_Actions takes nothing returns nothing

 local unit caster = GetSpellAbilityUnit() //Create a local variable and set it to the unit that's casting the spell
 local location start_position = GetUnitLoc(caster) //Create the local and set it to the caster's position
 local group enemies = CreateGroup() //When you create a group in JASS, it's like a trigger. First you need it empty, and then you add stuff to it
 local unit temp //Used when looping through the group
 local integer count = 5 //This will be the maximum amount of enemies that can be hit
 local location temp_loc //tmp location of the target unit 
 local effect specialEffect 
 
    call GroupEnumUnitsInRangeOfLoc(enemies, start_position, 500.0, null)

// GroupEnumUnitsInRangeOfLoc takes a group, a location, a radius, and a boolexpr (a condition, kind of) and then gets units within that radius and adds them to our group

   loop
      set temp = FirstOfGroup(enemies)
      exitwhen temp == null or count == 0

      if IsUnitEnemy(temp, GetOwningPlayer(caster)) then //If the enemy unit is an enemy of the owner of the caster

          set temp_loc = GetUnitLoc(temp) //Set a temporary location variable to the enemy position

          set specialEffect = AddSpecialEffectLoc("Abilities\\Spells\\NightElf\\Blink\\BlinkTarget.mdl", temp_loc)
        
          call SetUnitPositionLoc(caster, temp_loc) //Move our unit instantly to the enemy's location
          
          call SetUnitAnimation(caster,"Attack")
          
          call UnitDamageTarget(caster, temp, 50, true, false, ATTACK_TYPE_CHAOS, DAMAGE_TYPE_NORMAL, WEAPON_TYPE_METAL_LIGHT_CHOP)


//-----> this is the point where my character should a wait a bit to show the attack animation

                                                       //The caster will instantly damage the enemy for 50 damage with an attack type of chaos
                                                       //You can ignore the damage type, and the last parameter (weapontype) is just for sound, but we will
                                                       //have none for right now
          call SetUnitAnimation(caster,"Stand")  
                                                       
          call DestroyEffect(specialEffect)                                            
                                                       
          set count = count - 1 //A unit has been hit, so now the units left to hit is reduced by 1

      endif

      call GroupRemoveUnit(enemies, temp)
   endloop
   set specialEffect = AddSpecialEffectLoc("Abilities\\Spells\\NightElf\\Blink\\BlinkTarget.mdl", temp_loc)
   call SetUnitPositionLoc(caster, start_position)
   call DestroyEffect(specialEffect)   
  //Cleaning up memory leaks will be put here
  call RemoveLocation(start_position)
  call RemoveLocation(temp_loc)
  call DestroyGroup(enemies)
  set caster = null
  set start_position = null
  set enemies = null
  set temp = null
  set specialEffect = null
endfunction

I hope someone can answer my question, how I let script wait so that the player can see the attack animationen and the spell lasts more than a tenth of a second

 

[redscores]

Use a JASS tag, its like this: this at end [/code] and this at start

.

 

[Virenerus]

thx
thus should be added to the bbcode section...

 

[redscores]

Add a wait, maybe, like, call TriggerSleepAction(1.00) (1 second).

or dunno.

 

[Virenerus]

thx
that solved the problem

now I found another question
How can I play the Attack animation faster

 

[HINDYhat]

native SetUnitTimeScale takes unit whichUnit, real timeScale returns nothing

Where timeScale would be a factor to default animation speed.
So if you set timeScale to 2.0, the animations will be twice as fast as normal.

 

[Virenerus]

thx
that brings me to the next question
to create a script that is useful for all units it would be good to know the length of an animation
can I get this length?

e.g. I want the TriggerSleepAction to last as long as the attack animation needs to play

 

[HINDYhat]

As far as I know, you can't get the animation duration. D:

 

[Ciebron]

u dont need to play stand animation, since it will go back to that after first look of attack animaton

 

[GhostWolf]

Lets start a TSA vs Timers argue ! (hint and spam)