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Berserker's Rage - Olaf (League of Legends) (SOLVED)

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Hello. I'm wondering if anyone could help me out with this. I'm doing a passive ability for a Hero just like Olaf's. If you doesn't know what it does:

Berserker Rage: Increases Olaf's attack speed in 1% for each 1% of his missing health.

I've created 3 Integer Variables:
  • MaximumHP = Conversion Real to Integer = (Integer((Max Life of Olaf)))
  • CurrentHP = Conversion Real to Integer = (Integer((Life of Olaf)))
  • MissingHP = (MaximumHP - CurrentHP)
Once I've set these ones, I used this:
  • For each (Integer MissingHP) from 1 to 100 "Since we need each 1% of MissingHP - or so I think" do Actions:
    • Add Attack Speed to Olaf

That's all I have for today... Reputation for any help you can offer! :D

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Perhaps I should make the ability level up?
You can use something like the ObjectMerger and textmacros in the Jass NewGen Pack (tutorial link) to quickly make a 101-level passive Endurance Aura that only affects the caster, where each level gives an additional 1% attack speed. You could also create the ability manually but that's a lot of object editor bologna. Then just change its level via triggers to: (100 - <%life>) + 1, as an integer. Why the +1? Your attack speed ability has 101 levels (level 1 gives 0% level 101 gives 100%) and we don't want to crash trying to set the level of the ability to 0 when he has 100% life.

Realistically you do NOT need to run your loop every 0.01 seconds-- you can get away with 0.5 or maybe even 1.0 if you want and this will significantly reduce the strain on the system. This is the WHOLE trigger:

  • Berserker Rage Trigger
    • Events
      • Time - Every 0.5 seconds of game time
    • Conditions
    • Actions
      • Unit - Set level of <BERSERKER RAGE> for <OLAF> to ((Integer((100.00 - (Percentage Life of <OLAF>)))) + 1)
 
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Instead of making an ability with 100 levels, you could simply have 7 different abilities of Item Attack Speed Bonus (Gloves of Haste) with 1 level each. I'd say that's much less data needed compared to having 1 ability with 100 levels. With these 7 abilities, you could possibly reach up until 127% increased attack speed (2^7 - 1). So the 7 abilities would have the following values:

Ability 7 - 64%
Ability 6 - 32%
Ability 5 - 16%
Ability 4 - 8%
Ability 3 - 4%
Ability 2 - 2%
Ability 1 - 1%

Hence, total max attack speed would be 127%. How does this work? If you know binaries, then you can skip the explanation ahead.

Now, notice that each value of the abilities are powers of 2. Ability 1 has 2^0. Ability 2 has 2^1. And so the list goes on.

So let's say you want a value of 70%. You would have Abilities 7, 3, 2 added to your hero and the rest removed (64 + 4 + 2 = 70%).

How about a value like 53%? Would be Abilities 6, 5, 3, 1 added to your hero and the rest removed (32 + 16 + 4 + 1 = 53%).

So you may understand the logic somewhat, now to convert this logic into an actual program. Essentially, what you need to do is loop the number of times equal to the number of abilities that you have. For this case, you would loop a total of 7 times. In every loop, what you would do is to take your current value and divide by the ability's value. Since it's a division between integers, you will only get a return value of 1 or 0. Recall that decimal places are truncated/cut-off for integer division. So 100/64 would be 1 and 12/16 for example would be 0. If the value is a 1, you simply add that ability to the hero. On the flip side, if it's a zero, you remove the ability from the hero. Finally, you would take your current value and minus off the ability's value, only if the division value was 1. I don't currently have my WC3 Editor with me, so will write a simple pseudo-code instead:

JASS:
int i = 6 // number of loops to be performed (including 0)
int abilityVal = 2^i // which is 64 here
int currentVal = 77 // the value which you want to set it to

// assume that we have an array of integer called ABILITIES
// set up your abilities in an array, highest index should be your highest ability value:
ABILITIES[6] = <ability id of Ability 7>
ABILITIES[5] = <ability id of Ability 6>
ABILITIES[4] = <ability id of Ability 5>
ABILITIES[3] = <ability id of Ability 4>
ABILITIES[2] = <ability id of Ability 3>
ABILITIES[1] = <ability id of Ability 2>
ABILITIES[0] = <ability id of Ability 1>

loop
    if (currentVal / abilityVal == 0) then
        remove ABILITIES[i] from your hero
    else
        add ABILITIES[i] to your hero
        currentVal = currentVal - abilityVal
    endif

    exitwhen i == 0 // we have successfully reached the end of the loop!
    i = i - 1 // decrement our loop counter by 1

    abilityVal = abilityVal / 2
endloop

So let's do a step by step of the loop for let's say a value of 73% desired attack speed.

Initial:
i = 6
abilityVal = 64
currentVal = 73

Loop 1:
So we first check if currentVal divided by abilityVal is equal to zero. 73 / 64 = 1, hence we add Ability 7 to our hero and we minus currentVal by abilityVal (73 - 64). Our hero now has a total of 64% attack speed. At the end of the loop:
i = 5
currentVal = 73- 64 = 9
abilityVal = 64 / 2 = 32

Loop 2:
Same thing as the first loop, check if currentVal divided by abilityVal is equal to zero. 9 / 32 = 0, hence we remove Ability 6 from our hero, and our currentVal is unchanged. Our hero still has a total of 64% attack speed. At the end of the loop:
i = 4
currentVal = 9
abilityVal = 32 / 2 = 16

Loop 3:
9 / 16 = 0, hence we remove Ability 5 from our hero, and our currentVal is unchanged. Our hero still has a total of 64% attack speed. At the end of the loop:
i = 3
currentVal = 9
abilityVal = 16 / 2 = 8

Loop 4:
9 / 8 = 1, hence we add Ability 4 to our hero and we minus currentVal by abilityVal (9 - 8). Our hero now has a total of 72% (64 + 8) attack speed. At the end of the loop:
i = 2
currentVal = 9 - 8 = 1
abilityVal = 8 / 2 = 4

Loop 5:
1 / 4 = 0, hence we remove Ability 3 from our hero, and our currentVal is unchanged. Our hero still has a total of 72% attack speed. At the end of the loop:
i = 1
currentVal = 1
abilityVal = 4 / 2 = 2

Loop 6:
1 / 2 = 0, hence we remove Ability 2 from our hero, and our currentVal is unchanged. Our hero still has a total of 72% attack speed. At the end of the loop:
i = 0
currentVal = 1
abilityVal = 2 / 2 = 1

Loop 7:
1 / 1 = 1, hence we add Ability 1 to our hero and we minus currentVal by abilityVal (1 - 1). Our hero now has a total of 73% (64 + 8 + 1) attack speed. The loop is then exited due to the exit condition.

Although this method might be more complex than having a single ability with 100 levels, but it's way more flexible. For example, you can add another ability, Ability 8 with the value of 128 and would push the attack speed limit up to 255. With 9 Abilities, you can reach 511 attack speed, which is past the attack speed limit of Warcraft (400%). So instead of potentially having an ability with 400 levels for the attack speed cap, you could have 9 Abilities with 1 level each. Hope this helps!
 
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A single ability with 100 levels is like 1 line of an excel sheet having 100 x as many columns filled in-- it's certainly adding some tangible data to your file, but at the end of the day it's just an SLK (text in a grid) which is not a big deal. You're right that you can do it that way and it would be more space efficient, slightly decrease your map loading time, yadda yadda yadda, but you end up with a trigger that is an order of magnitude more complex. I mean mine's literally one line.

Pick your poison, though: complex trigger or additional OE data.


Also if you were to do this sort of thing for another unit as well with say different scaling on the speed buff (20% -> 150%) then you would absolutely want to do it with additive powers of two because it will be much easier to configure.
 
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Just one last note to make this even better; don't use Endurance Aura since it A) leaves a buff and B) requires a disabled Spellbook to hide.

If A doesn't matter, use the Slow Aura (Tornado) ability; comes pre-hidden, no icon or anything!

If A does matter, use the item ability for Gloves of Haste probably.
 
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