Boss fights - hiding HP

[corley]

is it possible to hide an enemys hp or stats?, for instance when doing a boss fight?

 

[adythewolf]

U mean even the attack, defence?

 

[Eleandor]

Well... the only way I could know is "offsetting" the HP by 20 000 or any other real large number, so the HP bar becomes black. Then make a trigger that kills the boss when its HP becomes lower than 20K.
That wouldn't remove the green bar over the boss in-game though, but with a ridiculous amount of HP such as 20k, you won't really notice it anyway...

 

[Vegavak]

Well... the only way I could know is "offsetting" the HP by 20 000 or any other real large number, so the HP bar becomes black. Then make a trigger that kills the boss when its HP becomes lower than 20K.
That wouldn't remove the green bar over the boss in-game though, but with a ridiculous amount of HP such as 20k, you won't really notice it anyway...

Yeah, the HP bar is only hidden because there are too many numbers to display.

So you'd have to scale the boss ridiculously.

 

[Volvox]

Don't know if this would work but i've seen people changing the font color of some interface parts... Maybe you could change boss' hp and stats font to black, that would conceal them. The only problem is, that would conceal stats for any unit...

 

[Los_Tacos]

• HP
  • Events
    • Time - Every 2.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set HPdeficit = ((Max life of Boss) - (Life of Boss))
    • Set HPremaining = (HPremaining - HPdeficit)
    • Unit - Set life of Boss to 100.00%
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • HPremaining Less than or equal to 0.00
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Kill Boss
      • Else - Actions

Just made this real quick, what it would do is set the Boss's health to 100% constantly. But the health is really going down in a variable which the players don't see. When the variable goes below 0 the boss dies.

 

[JetFangInferno]

you'd have to disable the alt button.

 

[Mazurite]

No I actually don't think you would have to disable the alt button, because the variable would be holding the actual amount of health of the boss, while another trigger simply continues to replenish his health to 100% so you would honestly see no change what so ever on the health bar.

Now, hiding stats would be the tricky part...

 

[Just_Spectating]

u can make it have no life (such as the circle of power or trees) and do whatever the taco guy said.


which gives me another idea, make it invunerable but targetable.

 

[AmIAnnoyingNow]

Well, here's my way of doing it.

Hiding attributes:
Don't make the boss a hero, you can apply all the things attributes would do in the object editor.

Hiding Armor:
Figure out your bosses damage reduction, then set his armor to zero and instead apply the damage reduction to the above trigger.

Hiding Health
Use the above trigger, but also add a trigger to increase the bosses health variable (Health regeneration)

Hiding Damage
Set the bosses damage to 1-1, use skills or triggers to apply extra damage, only issue is damage reduction.

 

[wd40bomber7]

Heres the smart way to do it (with jass)

First: Give the boss 'locust', second make a unit with no model instantly teleport on top of the boss every .01 seconds.
Set the dummy unit's stats to the bosses. Kill the boss when the dummy dies.

When a unit doesn't have a model they aren't clickable/targetable/seeable (even alt won't work on them) BUT they can be auto-attacked and can be hit by aoe spells. So you won't be able to click/target the boss but you will be able to attack him.

 

[Mazurite]

Don't use every .01, that's a waste and if your map is large enough, could cause lag. Use .03 or .05 it really will make a difference.

 

[Just_Spectating]

hey wd40, if u just wanted the u cant target thing, u can just do in triggers

add locust, hide unit, remove locust, show unit or something like that

 

[wd40bomber7]

Wrong, that just makes it so you can't drag select it. (from what I hear) You can still directly click it.

 

[Just_Spectating]

ah well my bad, but couldnt u make the selection size 0 also then?

 

[wd40bomber7]

Setting the selection scale to zero doesn't help at all. You can still drag select and click select. The selection scale determines how big the selection circle is.