<Damage Floating Text>

[WarXuji]

Can anyone help me make a trigger that will place floating text above units or buildings that are hit only by heroes.

So what i need is a floating text of damage which is dealt by all the heroes on the map above all the units that are being hit by Heroes.

And can it be done either on regular attack, spells, and so on?

Thanks

 

[Maker]

There.

 

[WarXuji]

Thank you very much!

+ rep for you!

 

[JeffreyQ]

Sorry for bumping this. But i really have a question for the map Maker did. Will it leak when a unit is dead? Because it is no longer in the event anymore. And is there any event limit we can add?

 

[tjordell]

Sorry for bumping this. But i really have a question for the map Maker did. Will it leak when a unit is dead? Because it is no longer in the event anymore. And is there any event limit we can add?

Haha stupid question. None of the triggers that Maker does is leakable or non-GUI/MUI

 

[Maker]

Actually I think that does leak strings, but I wouldn't worry about that since it's only for heroes, so there won't be too many leaks. The leak can't be prevented in GUI.

 

[JeffreyQ]

What do you mean by leak strings? Also is there any limit for events i can add? Eg: If my map keep spawning units, and i keep adding them to the event of the trigger. Will it lag?

 

[Maker]

Not sure. It can lag. You could use a counter to follow how many events there are.

Create another similar trigger (or many) and when too many events are added, turn off the trigger and initialize/turn on the new trigger.

About the leak, it's just something I've read here on these forums.

 

[themerion]

Haha stupid question. None of the triggers that Maker does is leakable or non-GUI/MUI

Oh, really? Because last time I checked, this leaks a rect. It also, as JeffreyQ says, leaks an event per unit.

If my map keep spawning units, and i keep adding them to the event of the trigger. Will it lag?

If you spawn a lot of units, the units themselves will likely cause more lag than some leaking damage events. (3d objects, pathing algorithms, etc. )

Maker uses the method which up until recently has been de facto for damage detection. I don't think there's a limit to how many units you can have.

If you're really worried about leaks, there are vJASS-stuff like Light Leakless Damage Detect. But I wouldn't worry about it.

Create another similar trigger (or many) and when too many events are added, turn off the trigger and initialize/turn on the new trigger.

It's just that the leaks won't go away until he destroys the trigger. Simply inactivating them won't do.

 

[JeffreyQ]

I will test the limit then..
Thanks for the clarification. +Rep to both.

 

[Deuterium]

String leaks CANNOT be avoided... even if you set the string variable to null, it would still be in the memory due to it's nature. But no matter how many strings are used, it wouldn't really effect game play as each character only uses 1 byte of memory.

 

[Catch_ya]

If you want it to leak less (atleast what ive heard) you must set it to "" at last. I heard it should take fewer place than "blahblahblahblahblah" - Alot of text.

 

[Deuterium]

Nope that doesn't help.
The way a string is saved in memory is through - I think this is the right word - tabulation:
Basically, if string s = "Hey!"... "Hey!" is saved in memory. If you then Change it to "Bye!", it won't replace the "Hey!", but instead head for another part in the memory to save the "Bye!"...
But - I think - the next times you use either of the two, it only points to their location in memory instead of re-creating the same strings again...

I got this info from some hivers some time ago, it's not something I came up with

 

[Catch_ya]

Can blizzard do something completely -.-?

but thanks for telling me this.

 

[GhostThruster]

You could make a Critical Strike dummy that casts at 100% chance, but deals no multiplier.