Damage Absorbation

[CocoNuT_old]

Hi,

I wanna make a spell like the World of Warcraft spell "Powerword: Shield".
The idea is to cast a shield on a friendly Unit which absorb all damage.

eg: Unit A cast on Unit B a shield (absorb 1000 dmg). Unit B takes 800 damage. The shield protected Unit B. Now takes Unit B 800 damage again. But Unit B lost only 600 HP.

Ok I hope someone can help me, and sorry for my baaaaaaaaaaaad english

 

[RED BARON]

make a dummy unit with 1000 hp, and let it take the dmg, when it dies the real target takes the dmg.... doesnt have time to post trigger right now.. maybe later

 

[Razorbrain]

triple post

cant the Banshees Anti-Magic Shield work as a Powerword : Shield?

 

[RED BARON]

triple post

cant the Banshees Anti-Magic Shield work as a Powerword : Shield?

It is anti magic not anti hp, but yes combines with the trigger I talked about (as the ability thats starts the effect)... and sry for the trible post, deletet them.. Hive went down when I postet, so didnt knew it had postet them..

 

[atropos007]

both of you are wrong

first of all, you need a Any unit takes damage event. It can be done in few ways, I suggest you search for them. Then when you cast a spell, make it place a buff, and set custom value of that unit to 1000. Whenever unit takes damage, check if it has a buff, if yes then:

set custom value to custom value - taken damage
set unit hp to unit hp + taken damage
if customvalue <= 0 then remove Shield buff from Damaged unit

 

[RED BARON]

both of you are wrong

first of all, you need a Any unit takes damage event. It can be done in few ways, I suggest you search for them. Then when you cast a spell, make it place a buff, and set custom value of that unit to 1000. Whenever unit takes damage, check if it has a buff, if yes then:

set custom value to custom value - taken damage
set unit hp to unit hp + taken damage
if customvalue <= 0 then remove Shield buff from Damaged unit

Hmm wonder.. how can you say I am wrong when I havent even postet the trigger (which by the way also works...)
But your trigger also works as far as I can see. If you be helpful you could post it using trigger tags. Else I proably will.

 

[Chaos Overlord]

Rawr cant you change the spirit link then make it so when your shield.... thing is cast, the unit is given your spirit link, he then casts it on a dummy unit with 1000 hp, and then gets spirit link taken away? Just make spirit link last forever or.... however lon goyu want it and take no mana and it may work. IDK I am not sure here....

 

[Diablo-dk]

None of you have come with a answer covering how to make it right.. Get a working one here.

 

[atropos007]

None of you have come with a answer covering how to make it right.. Get a working one here.

my solution is correct

 

[RED BARON]

my solution is correct

I think he means that none of us has et postet a working trigger.....
Even if both of out sulutions are working

 

[Chaos Overlord]

I could have posted one... yeah I lost already, that shield system you posted is so sweet. GJ Diablo

 

[Diablo-dk]

I meant both that they didn't work correctly(but mostly that there wasn't posted any triggers)

atrop, ever tried seeing what happens with your method if the target is on full hp or takes damage that is higher than it's maximum hp?

 

[RED BARON]

atrop, ever tried seeing what happens with your method if the target is on full hp or takes damage that is higher than it's maximum hp?

Thanks that was why I wanted to use the dummy unit..
But anyway you postet the best solution

 

[CocoNuT_old]

can ynone give me a picture how i can do a shield (with dummy or without dummy) an believe: the shield disappears after 30 seconds so the spell pack with the sield is useless for me

 

[iron_warrior]

You can probably edit the constants in the Spell Pack to suit your needs, Coco. Speaking of that Spell Pack, I tested it but it seems to crash whenever I copy the custom script, anyone know why?

 

[RED BARON]

Make sure you have all the same variabels, and that you have createt them, custom scripts is very precies, but need to be 100% correct.
I could post you the dummy, maybe later when I hhave made it. But iron have a point, edit the shield pack and change the time it is to something like 5 hours or something.. surely it wouldnt ran out.. but does not understand why you want it to be there forever? Time Ability is better. Or maybe you want the sheild to regenerate like protoss from starcraft does?