Bone Armor 1.19B

[ColourWolfe]

Been looking for an easy-to-use shield spell for a while now, thanks!

The SFX are lovely!

 

[Devalut]

Let me know if there's something I can change

 

[Pinzu]

Let me know if there's something I can change

Is it possible to have different shield colors for different spells or players?

 

[Devalut]

Thanks for the suggestion!

Do you mean the skulls or the shield flare when an enchanted unit takes damage?

I changed the colour using the special effects alpha (25 r 255 g 25 b) the special effects will always keep a tinge of their former colour.
I haven't tried the player colour option in the special effects, I believe it only effects that already have player colouring attached (Ex: moon priestess arrow)

I'll request a spirit touch model that is player coloured and bent 90 degrees if the all else fails.

 

[Pinzu]

Thanks for the suggestion!

Do you mean the skulls or the shield flare when an enchanted unit takes damage?

I changed the colour using the special effects alpha (25 r 255 g 25 b) the special effects will always keep a tinge of their former colour.
I haven't tried the player colour option in the special effects, I believe it only effects that already have player colouring attached (Ex: moon priestess arrow)

I'll request a spirit touch model that is player coloured and bent 90 degrees if the all else fails.

You could store orb and shield coloring in an array and just chose accordingly to configuration. So a nature shield would create a green shield and have green orbs, orange shield and orange orbs, blue shielf and ice orbs and so on.

I don't mean just changing the color, I mean creating copies based on the same trigger and some easy configuration.

Spell[0] = Necro
ColorR[0] = 45
ColorG[0] = 255
ColorB[0] = 45
Orb[0] = Skull
...

Spell[1] = Nature
ColorR[0] = 255
ColorG[0] = 100
ColorB[0] = 40
Orb[1] = Nature's Orb
...

So when spell[0] is cast you have a set of effects and when spell[1] is cast another.


Just an idea, havent' looked all that deeply into your trigger. ^^

 

[Devalut]

Very neat I'll do some tests later tonight

ETA:
(To my knowledge): I would need to add a dummy model to carry multiple unit model support, and I want to avoid making the installation process too complicated.
If you know of an alternative method let me know.

Also changing the alphas (I tried making yellow, red & purple.) the flare looks off and very much discoloured.


ETA: Hermit - Has Submitted this Spirit Touch Model which will allow for recolouring surpassing the default blue variant in terms of customization, I will add it to the next version here later today and add the options into the Bone Armor Config for multiple player colours.

 

[ColourWolfe]

Rainbow variation looks dope!

 

[Chaosy]

That is a freaking clever way to use a spell effect

 

[Sieben]

This spell is awesome! It's exactly what I needed. Thank you!

 

[Devalut]

*Cough* @Pinzu *Cough*

 

[Nudl9]

The unit indexer overwrites custom values of units which is bad for this spell if your map relies on it.

 

[Devalut]

KILLCIDE suggested using hashtables, perhaps that should be in the next update.
Thank you for the reply Nudl9, do you mind giving my submission a rating so far?

 

[Nudl9]

Yeah no problem.
I was thinking about using the spell, but the custom value thingy was a bit of a dealbreaker for me.

 

[Devalut]

I'll see if I can't get this done tonight, if you have any other ideas let me know.

ETA: I've just remembered that Unit Indexer is required for the damage detection, will this still cause you problems?

ETA: This might take longer than a couple nights..

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

Great spell, been needing this for some time now. Skips needing me to code my own. Thanks!

 

[Devalut]

Created a Hashtable Version using looking_for_help's PDD system that I believe I will separately upload depending on the opinion of the hive staff having essentially the same spell with different guts.

 

[Nudl9]

Fucking sweet.

 

[Nudl9]

I made some tweaks to it and i gotta say i'm pretty happy with the results.
Great work on the spell.

I took the Poor Yorrick model and removed the missile sound and made it a little bigger.
Instead of the green skulls, which looked rather intrusive if you have many units on screen.

 

[Devalut]

Sweet, perhaps you could make it six segments and simply alternate between the Yorick model and that hidden bone model (SharedModels\Bones1) I think, I.e. 3 yoricks & 3 spinning bones.

Also what project are you using It in I'd love to see!
ETA: Nvm, I recognize the minimap Battle Royal!

ETA2: You can modify the special effect scale if it's too small btw, just add the line under the cast portion when the special effect for the missile is created.

 

[Nudl9]

Oh yeah that's not a bad idea.

 

[MyPad]

Review:

Notes:

• It appears that the missiles created on spell effect are mostly eye-candy. The armor buff is applied on spell effect, which, coupled with the missiles, can seem counter-intuitive to some. (Already blocking damage before armor eye-candy is made present?)
  
  
• Oddly enough, the bonus shield protection provided by the buff does not appear to cumulatively stack. (E.g., Cast a shield worth 300 points onto a unit with 20 shield points and it becomes 300 shield points, not 320.) Is this behavior intended?
  
  
  • Moreover, it can appear awkward to cast the spell again on a target unit with a full-shield.

 

[Devalut]

@MyPad

First off, thank you for the review!

1. I agree wholeheartedly, however from the distance and speed of the missiles already arrive is such a way that it would only be a problem from long distances.
   Additionally you can opt to have the missiles spawn offset from the target by changing the options.
   
2. Soon™ - I was actually going to release this after I did the hashtable version, as I reviewed my first submission that is the Father of this submission; It has that very option, however I got sidetracked with other things... (risk of rain 2).

• 2.5 - Casting on a worn shield will only recover the missing segments, indicating the shield has been repaired, the segments are in essence a pseudo-health bar the player roughly gather from, casting upon an already 100% shield will do nothing as nothing has changed. (What do you recommend?)

 

[MyPad]

2.5 - I recommend making some sort of eye candy in the case that the target unit has a full shield, so as not to give it away as a dummy spell.

 

[Devalut]

@MyPad
Updated!
I thought you meant the cast effect on it wasn't enough, but now i see it wasn't even working in the first place!
The point was looking for the segment named "BAmr_Seg[BAmr_Akey]" instead of "BAmr_Seg[BAmr_Seg_CValue]" it should create the effect on the segments now.

 

[MyPad]

Very well. As far as I've inspected, there aren't any leaks present in the spell, and the issues presented above have been fixed or addressed, so there aren't a lot of things to be discussed here.

Status:

• Approved

 

[Stork]

I wasnt able to open the map. Which version of jngp you used?

 

[Devalut]

I can't say I can answer that entirely as I never used it...
Latest patch and standard world editor opens it just fine

 

[KILLCIDE]

@Stork it tells you under the Contents tab:

 

[Stork]

Thanks for your information. But here's what i showed when i was trying open the map

Spoiler: Error

 

[Devalut]

@Stork
When you open Warcraft 3 main menu what version do you see at the bottom right?

 

[Daffa]

You need 1.29 or 1.30 patch for this resources to work. I remember running to that issue on 1.28 below.

EDIT:
Solution would be to go to Battle Net via the battle.net button and let the game patch itself. Once patched to 1.30, the map will open normally.

 

[ColourWolfe]

You've made this such an awesome thing that it's a shame it's momentarily limited to a spell.
I imagine your next challenge would be a shield system =)

Btw, momentarily I'm not seeing any of "reflect" SFX for this or that reason. Pretty sure I followed the instructions right. What could have I screw up?

 

[Devalut]

I imagine your next challenge would be a shield system =)

I plan to, however I keep running into issues with "Priority", i.e. if you have mana shield, with anti-magic shield both will take damage, If I do a system that's one hurdle.
What do you want to see?

The reflect or "Damage Flare" as I call it uses a custom model, so make sure it's name is "BoneArmorCasterTC.mdx" in the import menu and not "war3mapImported\BoneArmorCasterTC.mdx" as the triggers will read it as the former!
If for whatever reason you want to avoid using it you would need to follow the instructions for step four to use the model that the undead Obsidian statue uses "spirit touch" and simply recolor it with the settings as I originally did.

ETA: And I realize now that my shield life display is funky... nvm think i fixed it - Uploaded !

 

[Devalut]

WARNING IF YOU ARE USING CURRENT PATCH:
SPECIAL EFFECTS MODIFICATION HAS EFFECTIVELY BEEN FLIPPED ON ITS HEAD!
ROLL NO LONGER CHANGES THE FACING OF SPECIAL EFFECTS USE YAW INSTEAD!
I WILL RELEASE A VERSION FOR THE CURRENT PATCH SOON™

Previous version of Bone Armor is still available under the tab just after changelog!

 

[BlackRangerXIII]

@Devalut I like this Spell, could be useful for shield passives. Question though: is it easy to convert this spell from Active (Where you need to press a button) to passive?

 

[Devalut]

Funny you should mention it, i was working on one, its pretty much fleshed out it just needs some variable connections so anyone can edit it and some clean up, ill pastebin what i have so far later tonight when imI get home.

Overall for converting the current one you'd need a entering trigger for units being spawned with it, or a unit group on map init for any units currently on the map at init, then a regen on periodic, or in my case there's a delay in regen after being hit, i think i set it to 7 seconds.

 

[BlackRangerXIII]

Sorry... I don't understand it, but I hope you can finish it

 

[Devalut]

Sorry... I don't understand it, but I hope you can finish it

Posted it here:
[GUI] Prototype Kinetic Barrier & Shell Beta 0.02

 

[Daffa]

1.31 patch seems to screw up the site's information interface. Welp.

 

[Devalut]

Size:
12877824x12914688 (2819344775x824481412)

kek

 

[Catch_ya]

Great spell, I really love the execution of it!

I do however get this error when I try to open the map:

Am I the only one running into this issue?

Not sure the cause...

 

[Devalut]

I'm not entirely sure if you're using the current patch 1.31
Try the previous version and let me know if you have the same issue!
Bone Armor 1.13.1 | HIVE

Note that the only difference is special effect orientation, as YAW & ROLL were flipped around, so don't think you're missing anything!

 

[Ether]

Nice one Mr. Dev.

 

[Bribe]

I recommend updating this to use Damage Engine 5.1 - it should only require updating the vJass script to do so.

 

[Devalut]

I recommend updating this to use Damage Engine 5.1 - it should only require updating the vJass script to do so.

Now using latest Damage Engine 5.1.1.1!

 

[Niels]

Good job Devalut

 

[Devalut]

Updated to Damage Engine 5.1.3.1

 

[Ricola3D]

Awesome ! I also made a triggered spell that casts this one in an area of 500 around caster. Here are the very basic triggers I made just in case someone is interested. There is a JASS and a GUI version.

JASS version

function castBoneArmorOnAllies takes nothing returns nothing
    local unit sourceUnit = GetTriggerUnit()
    local unit targetUnit = GetEnumUnit()
    local unit dummyUnit
    local player sourcePlayer = GetOwningPlayer(sourceUnit)
    local location targetLocation
    if ( IsUnitAlly(targetUnit, sourcePlayer) == true ) then
        set targetLocation = GetUnitLoc(targetUnit)
        call CreateNUnitsAtLoc(1, 'n012', sourcePlayer, targetLocation, bj_UNIT_FACING)
        set dummyUnit = GetLastCreatedUnit()
        call ModifyHeroStat( bj_HEROSTAT_STR, dummyUnit, bj_MODIFYMETHOD_SET, GetHeroStatBJ(bj_HEROSTAT_STR, sourceUnit, true) )
        call ModifyHeroStat( bj_HEROSTAT_AGI, dummyUnit, bj_MODIFYMETHOD_SET, GetHeroStatBJ(bj_HEROSTAT_AGI, sourceUnit, true) )
        call ModifyHeroStat( bj_HEROSTAT_INT, dummyUnit, bj_MODIFYMETHOD_SET, GetHeroStatBJ(bj_HEROSTAT_INT, sourceUnit, true) )
        call UnitAddAbilityBJ( 'A04Z', dummyUnit )
        call IssueTargetOrderBJ( dummyUnit, "innerfire", targetUnit )
        call RemoveUnit(dummyUnit)
        call RemoveLocation(targetLocation)
    endif
endfunction

function Trig_BoneArmorAOE_Conditions takes nothing returns boolean
    if ( not ( GetSpellAbilityId() == 'A00B' ) ) then
        return false
    endif
    return true
endfunction

function Trig_BoneArmorAOE_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
    local unit sourceUnit = GetTriggerUnit()
    local location sourceLocation = GetUnitLoc(sourceUnit)
    local group unitsInRange = GetUnitsInRangeOfLocAll(500.00, sourceLocation)
    call ForGroupBJ( unitsInRange, function castBoneArmorOnAllies )
    call DestroyGroup(unitsInRange)
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_BoneArmorAOE_JASS takes nothing returns nothing
    set gg_trg_BoneArmorAOE_JASS = CreateTrigger(  )
    call TriggerRegisterAnyUnitEventBJ( gg_trg_BoneArmorAOE_JASS, EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_SPELL_EFFECT )
    call TriggerAddCondition( gg_trg_BoneArmorAOE_JASS, Condition( function Trig_BoneArmorAOE_Conditions ) )
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_BoneArmorAOE_JASS, function Trig_BoneArmorAOE_Actions )
endfunction

GUI version

• BoneArmorAOE GUI
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Frigid Protection (Archmage)
  • Actions
    • Set TempPoint = (Position of (Triggering unit))
    • Set TempGroup = (Units within 500.00 of TempPoint)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_TempPoint)
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in TempGroup and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • ((Picked unit) belongs to an ally of (Owner of (Triggering unit))) Equal to True
          • Then - Actions
            • Set TempPoint = (Position of (Picked unit))
            • Unit - Create 1 Dummy Hero for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) at TempPoint facing Default building facing degrees
            • Set TempUnit = (Last created unit)
            • Hero - Modify Strength of TempUnit: Set to (Strength of (Triggering unit) (Include bonuses))
            • Hero - Modify Agility of TempUnit: Set to (Agility of (Triggering unit) (Include bonuses))
            • Hero - Modify Intelligence of TempUnit: Set to (Intelligence of (Triggering unit) (Include bonuses))
            • Unit - Add Frigid Armor BAmr to TempUnit
            • Unit - Order TempUnit to Human Priest - Inner Fire (Picked unit)
            • Unit - Remove TempUnit from the game
            • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_TempPoint)
          • Else - Actions
    • Custom script: call DestroyGroup(udg_TempGroup)

 

[Devalut]

Very cool!
Does it really work for 500 units?
If so wow...