Destructable Spell

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I am making a set of abilities that represent the units stats (like endurance or armor) and they level up by doing certain things, like armor gets exp for taking damage. Now i want to make it where the spell has health and will break and requires a repair. I already have a general idea of how to do this, make an index system for the spells and set a hp real number, and detect damage to remove this hp. But how do i retain the spells former abilities and stats (because it can be upgraded and imbued) once its repaired.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Elaborate please, I don't get what you are looking for :]

 

[InfinateAnswers]

A way to retreive the stats that a spell recently had. Or somehow storing the spell and all its stats

 

[Pharaoh_]

Let's say you have the spell as follows:

• Set Abilities[1] = Storm Bolt
• Set Abilities[2] = Death Coil

A way to store values in them are:

• Custom script: call SaveReal (udg_Hash, udg_Abilities[1], StringHash("damage"), 300)

Let's say your Death Coil damages for 300, the line above will save this value. To save the level of it,

• Custom script: call SaveInteger (udg_Hash, udg_Abilities[2], StringHash("level"), GetUnitAbilityLevel(GetTriggerUnit()))

 

[InfinateAnswers]

They arent casting spells...

 

[raft_pl]

The only way to store ALL stats of a spell (those from Object editor) is to save ability handle. But since that function doesn't work (it will crash your WE), you have no possibility of doing so.

The only solution is to trigger every ability you want to have "hp" and weaker effect based on its "durability" left. In this case, you could simply do something like this:

SPELL_DAMAGE * durability (like 0.68, 1.00 being max)
SPELL_DURATION * durability
SPELL_AMOUNT_OF_TARGETS * durability

And so on. You could use structs to store various information about a spell, if you had JNGP.

 

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Would it work if i disabled a spell, i think that makes it hidden, and add a spell that has the same icon but like darkened out and when u repair it remove that spell and enable the previous spell?

 

[Pharaoh_]

Yes, but it can only hold an MPI result, not a MUI.

 

[InfinateAnswers]

Hmm.. so you mean i could only do that to one hero at a time?

 

[Pharaoh_]

Yep, that's it; unless you use Unit - Remove Ability and save the level into a hashtable. That's your MUI result.

 

[InfinateAnswers]

what about disabling?

 

[Pharaoh_]

It will only be MPI, like I said?

 

[InfinateAnswers]

i mean how do i disable

 

[Pharaoh_]

Player - Disable ability for Player.

 

[InfinateAnswers]

i see, i see. And why is that MPI?

 

[raft_pl]

Because it disables ability for player, which means all his units, not only selected one?

 

[Pharaoh_]

Multi player instanceability: it can support multiple players at a time, while MUI means Multi unit instanceability: it can support instances of the same system/spell for multiple units at a time.

 

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Lol each player only has 1 unit

 

[Pharaoh_]

Then, Player - Enable/Disable ability will be good enough for your aim.

 

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Yay =D.

 

[Ciebron]

He can make it MUI. HandleID <3

 

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Begone hashtables