[JASS] Checking Whether a Unit is in Combat

[Cov3r70ps]

Ok, so basically, I have a Barbarian hero who generates rage on every attack, and is supposed to lose rage over time, but only while he is out of combat.
I am looking for a way that I might go about detecting whether said Barbarian is in combat or not. Currently, all I have thought of is possibly checking to see if there are enemy units nearby, but this is able to be abused by standing withing range of units, but not actually attacking.

Is it possible to maybe do this with timers that reset every time the Barbarian attacks? I would think it is, but I'm relatively new to all the Jass/timer stuff and it sometimes gets a bit confusing.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Deaod]

Theres no direct way to say this unit is currently attacking. But you could use a trigger responding to EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_ATTACKED and if the attacking unit has rage, start a timer for it lasting about 1 second (or the length of the attack animation) slightly longer than the attack cooldown. When a timer expires you know that unit is not attacking anymore.

 

[warden13]

Add a buff when a unit is attacked or being attacked. Check if unit has this buff. Of course your buff will have some duration.

 

[Cov3r70ps]

Theres no direct way to say this unit is currently attacking. But you could use a trigger responding to EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_ATTACKED and if the attacking unit has rage, start a timer for it lasting about 1 second (or the length of the attack animation) slightly longer than the attack cooldown. When a timer expires you know that unit is not attacking anymore.

Haha, yeah I was worried someone would say that, it was giving me such a pain trying though. Thanks for the effort though.

Add a buff when a unit is attacked or being attacked. Check if unit has this buff. Of course your buff will have some duration.

Yeah, that's a great idea, I can't believe I didn't think of that...
Anyhoo, is there a way to give a unit a buff without making a dummy caster/spell that gives the buff? I've been trying to just add it by way of

call UnitAddAbility(GetAttacker(), COMBAT_BUFF)

with COMBAT_BUFF being the integer constant 'B000', my buff's id, but it isn't working.

Thanks yet again.

 

[MeKC]

One of the orb abilities will add an buff on every attack.
Think its orb of slow, so add that to every unit

 

[Cov3r70ps]

Yes good call, thanks.

 

[Thyrael]

In my map I just restart a timer when my hero is attacked/attacks and set a boolean InFight == true. When the timer exspires I set InFight == false.

 

[Cov3r70ps]

In my map I just restart a timer when my hero is attacked/attacks and set a boolean InFight == true. When the timer exspires I set InFight == false.

Yeah, that's a good idea, but in this case, I have more than one active unit that requires this kind of timer (and no real way of telling how many total).

I have everything working now, thanks for the help!