Blood Mage steal life for each attack made.

[aider]

Hi, Im making a Blood Mage passive ability, which is supposed to give the Blood Mage 25HP for each time he attacks a target enemy. So I made this:

• Blood Mage Life steal
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Attacking unit)) Equal to Tiara
  • Actions
    • Set TempLoc3 = (Position of (Attacking unit))
    • Unit - Set life of (Attacking unit) to ((Life of (Attacking unit)) + (25.00 x 1.00))
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect at TempLoc3 using Objects\Spawnmodels\Critters\Albatross\CritterBloodAlbatross.mdl
    • Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_TempLoc3)

The only thing is, if you spam the "Stop" action, the Blood Mage will: Stop attacking, but then go for a new attack if there is a enemy nearby, over and over, which result in ALOT of "A unit is attacked". The easiest would be if there is a Event: "Unit - A Unit is damaged", but I just can't find it, only "Unit - A Unit is attacked".
What to do?

 

[Raven0]

There are two ways I could see doing this.

The first (and best option) is using an indexing system (take a look at the jass section of the site) which would basically allow you to use the "Unit - A Unit is damaged" event efficiently.

The second is creating a cooldown timer for you're trigger. So at the end of the "Blood Mage Life steal" trigger you would turn it off and start a x-seconds timer and create another trigger that runs whenever that timer ends and turns on the initial trigger. If that made any sense at all?

like this:

• Blood Mage Life steal
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Attacking unit)) Equal to Tiara
  • Actions
    • Set TempLoc3 = (Position of (Attacking unit))
    • Unit - Set life of (Attacking unit) to ((Life of (Attacking unit)) + (25.00 x 1.00))
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect at TempLoc3 using Objects\Spawnmodels\Critters\Albatross\CritterBloodAlbatross.mdl
    • Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_TempLoc3)
    • Countdown Timer - Start LifeSteal_Cooldown as a One-shot timer that will expire in 1.00 seconds
    • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)

• Blood Mage Life steal timer
  • Events
    • Time - LifeSteal_Cooldown expires
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Trigger - Turn on Blood Mage Life steal <gen>

 

[PauloCesar]

Some time ago i had a problem with this too. So the best thing you can do is use a Detection Damage System. i've used this one and it solved all my problems.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...a-149098/?prev=search=Damage&d=list&r=20&t=65
make a good use

 

[defskull]

Use this trigger:

• Trigger - Add to Trigger 2 the event (Unit - (Attacked unit) Takes damage)

EDIT:

Okay, we need 2 triggers for this to work
1st trigger:

• Initialization
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
    • ((Triggering unit) belongs to an enemy of (Owner of Tiara) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Trigger - Add to Heal <gen> the event (Unit - (Attacked unit) Takes damage)
    • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)

2nd:

• Heal
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Set life of Tiara to ((Life of Tiara) + 25.00)

Both must be Initially On
The 1st trigger needs to be turned off because, the Heal trigger will be doubled later on
Okay, 1st heal is +25, but second will heal +50, +100, +200... and so on
The trigger is turned off to prevent endless calculations

 

[aider]

Thanks alot all! Raven0's trigger worked perfectly. Gonna check the Friendly Damage Detection system and defskull's triggers now. +rep

 

[defskull]

However, Raven0's trigger requires a Timer creation every time he attacks
This will make the game can be lag if it's multiple trigger running at a time
I suggest use my trigger, doesn't need any timer creation
Just 2 Initially On trigger, that's all