Detect damage coming from attack

[Spartipilo]

Hi!

I know Wc3 allows detecting attack, but it can be abuseable. I also know there are Damage Detection Systems to detect when damage is dealt, but it may not come from an attack... So how can we detect when the damage came from an attack?

I've tough about keeping track of the order, but with right click order is not "attack" but "smart" and if the attacker is ranged, it could change the order before the missile strikes the target...

 

[water_Knight]

Damage detection systems can be edited to detect damage from anything as far as i am aware. Meaning you can make it leave out certain skills etc if you wanted.

 

[Spartipilo]

But how? I mean... If I add inmolation, it will damage everyone, but I don't want to do triggered bash to those units just because they received damage from inmolation or any otherskill.

 

[Maker]

Basically you need to trigger all spell damage.

Then you can hook UnitDamageTarget and detect spell damage and then know whether damage came from spell or normal attack.

 

[Spartipilo]

Could you please give me an example?

 

[Maker]

library SpellDamage

    private function setSpellDamage takes unit whichUnit, widget target, real amount, boolean attack, boolean ranged, attacktype aType, damagetype dType, weapontype wType returns nothing
        // Save a boolean into hashtable for example
    endfunction
    
    hook UnitDamageTarget setSpellDamage

endlibrary

So you can use UnitDamageTarget for your spells. The hook thingy then automatically makes setSpellDamage to be called when UnitDamageTarget is called. You can set a boolean for example to tell to the damage detection system that the damage dealt came from a spell.