[Spell] Clickable Spell while moving

[sentrywiz]

Hi all.

I'm making a top-down shooter and I'm having trouble figuring out how to have a clickable spell that can be clicked while a unit is being moved via triggers.

Something along the lines of keyboard event, but not with a spell because in order to have the spell fire, the unit has to stop moving and its a bit tedious especially since I'm making a top down manic shooter where the player will have to dodge too many bullets and shoot at the same time.

Any ideas?

 

[Lender]

use channel as dummy ability and set art duration,cast time, follow through time to 0.
then it wont breake by movement

but anyway if u move the unit via trigger then it never should be a problem either... unless u use GUI move unit that calls a stop order

 

[sentrywiz]

use channel as dummy ability and set art duration,cast time, follow through time to 0.
then it wont breake by movement

but anyway if u move the unit via trigger then it never should be a problem either... unless u use GUI move unit that calls a stop order

I am using channel with everything you said to 0. But like I said, when I am moving the unit, the unit cannot cast a spell. So I must stop moving the unit, then it casts a spell.

 

[Wietlol]

Do you mean that when you are walking and you cast an ability, you must continue to walk?

 

[sentrywiz]

Do you mean that when you are walking and you cast an ability, you must continue to walk?

The unit gets moved via triggers every 0.05 seconds up to 50 range in a direction. During moving, I cannot cast anything, because clicking the ability does nothing until the unit stops, has a split second to start the effect then the spell fires.

 

[Xonok]

Try some JASS functions.
Instead of moving unit with

• Unit - Move (Unit) instantly to (Location)

Try moving it this way:

• Custom script: call SetUnitX(udg_Unit,GetLocationX(udg_Location))
• Custom script: call SetUnitY(udg_Unit,GetLocationY(udg_Location))

If Unit is not a variable, then you'll need to use a function to get it.
For instance, "Triggering Unit" is "GetTriggerUnit()".

 

[Zwiebelchen]

There's several abilities that you can base your ability of that can be cast without interrupting movement. Berserk, Mana Shield, Immolate.... I think there are more than those, but these just came to my mind.

 

[Vinz]

Indeed, toggles. Defend.

Reveal also doesn't interrupt anything, but has to be targeted and unlike Channel, cannot be changed to a non-AoE indicator.

 

[Xonok]

The OP is using triggers to move the unit in this case, but abilities like berserk can indeed still be helpful due to being instant.

One more way is setting the cast point of the unit to 0 or a very low number.

 

[sentrywiz]

I thought of Berserk, but didn't try it. I thought Channel is better. I'll give it a try

 

[sonofjay]

I've seen some spell/system uses this "Last Order" library that makes unit not to stop when using an ability. I don't know if that is an option for you.