Detecting Spells and Attacks

[WhiteDeath]

Is there a way of detecting weather the damage dealt to a unit is from a spell or an attack?

 

[MortAr]

Not unless you use some overcomplicated damage detection bullshit system and all of the damage done to a unit is triggered in some or another way.

 

[Adiktuz]

The easy but very inefficient and buggy way:

-->make normal attacks give a buff by giving all units an orb-based ability that gives buff... so if the unit that gets damaged has the buff, then its a normal attack

The only efficient and non-buggy way to do this is via triggering all damages... that way you can set on the damage triggers what type of damage it is...

 

[sentrywiz]

You can: however its gonna be time consuming. There are lots of ways it can be done, this just my view:

- a preset of data in a sort of trigger-database. you can save all possible spells and all possible items that affect spells into variables, then simple control the damage yourself [THIS WOULD COUNT AS SPELL DAMAGE]

- then you can use a gui damage detection system, to display in text how much damage is being dealt and in what fashion. since you already have a preset of spell damage, anything that isn't spell damage is attack damage.

 

[mckill2009]

the native in jass...
GetUnitCurrentOrder(your_unit_here
detects what kind of order your unit have, spells and attacks have orderID's...

sample: attack, using weep's DamageDetector...

if GetUnitCurrentOrder(udg_unit)==851983 then
   //your damage here
endif

 

[Adiktuz]

That will only work for instant damages...

but for things like projectiles (both normal attack projectiles and spell projectiles, and especially slow hitting projectiles) or for Damage over time spells, it will fail...

 

[mckill2009]

if ranged spell or attack then you have make an invisible dummy unit to follow that
projectile calculate 'each' the distance and the speed from dummy and target using timer
systems, if it reaches 0 then actions, that dummy unit is the carrier of the heroe's order...