Charging Laser Attacking Thingy

[Pyritie]

Right. This is a system which I've gotten a bit of help over at Maps 'n' Mods, but since that site is kinda deserted (except the off topic forum, but that's another story) I've decided to ask for help here.

Okay, what I basically want is to make these towers that attack like those Prism Towers in Red Alert 2, or like the green turrets in this game. In other words, when tower A acquires a target, I want all other nearby towers to "charge" tower A, increasing its damage x2 for every tower nearby.

So far, I've managed to figure out how to make the laser effects, how to increase damage by 2 each time, and pretty much everything else. The only question that remains is this:

After tower A (the attacking one) has gotten a charge-up from tower B (a nearby tower) and if tower B is in range of attackers, how do I make it so that tower B does not immediately attack the enemies? Like its charge-up took up its attacking cooldown?​

This is the hard part.

 

[Final_Nova]

You can set the acquisiton range to 0 of the other towers

 

[Pyritie]

*whacks head against table* Now why didn't I think of that?

However, if a player tries to make one of the towers to force-attack a unit, it will say "out of range" even though it's in range. How do I fix that? Or can't I?

I think this is just not possible, however, it might. Unless I find a solution I'll stick to the towers being uncontrollable.

 

[PurplePoot]

Acquisition Range is also the max range, if Range > Acquisition Range.

You could just trigger the attack completely (having the original invisible and undamaging), so that noone would know that it attacked the first time.

 

[Pyritie]

Yes, but then wouldn't that show up in the UI?

 

[Codexx]

Can you set it so that if a tower starts to "feed" energy to Tower A, it's acquisition range is set to 0?

If you have your triggers set up a certain way you should be able to add that in. Otherwise you'll need to reorganize how it's done.

 

[PurplePoot]

No, Pyrite, if you had a Damage Blocker trigger, or just made an attack type that did 0 damage.

 

[Pyritie]

What's a damage blocker trigger?

 

[PurplePoot]

A trigger that blocks any damage dealt by xxx

 

[Pyritie]

Well I figured that much out; I meant what does it look like?

 

[PurplePoot]

Long. It involves damage detection (Any Unit Takes Damage), an If to make sure it was the right kind of damage (filter by unit type+attack or something), and a way to reduce damage.

 

[Pyritie]

Is it the sorta thing that dota has that prevents you from attacking allied stuff?

One time I tried that to piss off the stupid dota players, but it didn't work so I quit

 

[PurplePoot]

No, that just orders you to "stop" when you attack an ally, via A Unit Is Attacked.

This involves this script, or a similar one.

 

[Pyritie]

Does that come in GUI? >_<

 

[Final_Nova]

If you are asking about the ally attack stop trigger yes it can be done in GUI

 

[Pyritie]

Meh it doesn't matter. I'll just add it in the UI but then set the aquisition range to 0 and yeah.

 

[Just_Spectating]

if u dont want the (Tower B) to attack then just disable its attack with obj editor Combat - Attacks Enabled None Or if u want it to not attack while its charging, make it use a channeling spell to (Tower A) so it disables attack

 

[Pyritie]

-_-

It's the same type of tower. If Tower B finds an enemy, then A will try to help. If I disable their attacks altogether, then there won't be anything to powerup.

 

[Just_Spectating]

give the tower a channeling spell to use on the other tower

 

[Pyritie]

Now that's something helpful!

Why didn't I think of that?!

Aha now I have it all figured out! Thanks, Just!