detecting an attack ?

[ziNv]

i want to make several passive abilities and therefore need to detect attacks.
the "a unit is being attacked" is not exact enough, so i tried to make a passive spell with sloworb effect and tried to detect that spell being casted but it dodnt work, so can anybody help ? i need to detect the exact point of impact at the enemy unit ! thx

 

[Draqz]

I had a similar problem with a map that I am working on, except I needed to find the exact moment a projectile enters the air. As for detecting a hit. I know you can do it with Jass and handle vars. Are you familiar with Jass? There is an event that is "a unit takes damage" but it is a specific unit event, with Jass, you should be able to do it.

However, If you don't know Jass, that is more trouble than it is worth, don't start on something like that If you want to start learning Jass. I think your orb effect idea shoudl work. You may have to makea periodic event with condition "units with buff x" or do a pick all units with "buff x" and do actions. just make the duration of the buff short, so that the periodic will pick it up, but not too long so the periodic gets it twice. So, make the periodic like, .5 seconds, and the buff duration .5 seconds. Somthing along those lines. Now, if you attack is faster than .5 seconds, you may have a problem, because the effect will only take place every .5 sconds. I have to go to work right now, but i will let you know later if i think of anything else.

 

[iplaystarcraft]

what do you mean it's not enough?
well you can try a trigger that looks like this:

Event-
Unit is attacked
Conditions-
attacking unit equal to Your Unit (Caster of a spell?)
Action- set VariableA = position on attacked unit
-then the rest of the actions-

:roll:

~iplaystarcraft

 

[Draqz]

if something is issued an order to attack, and they begin their attack animation, that triggers the "attacked" event. This is not what he asked for. The projective could miss due to evasion, or maybe its not a homing projectile, and it also takes place at a completely different time, on impact rather than the initial order. That is why the "attacked" event will not work.