Disabling health/mana regeneration temporarily

[Voljin]

Hello Hive,

I'm trying to make a survival type game where, if you go too long without eating food, you get a hunger debuff and 20% of your hero's health knocked off. Problem is... it just regenerates before the next timer finishes, which doesn't really go with the theme... Is there some way to disable health/mana regeneration while the debuff is active so that the unit loses 20% health each cycle? I am wondering if maybe there is a spell with an ability like that pre-programmed in, but cannot think of one. Thanks very much!

 

[Wrda]

Just modify the value of regeneration amount of the unit, couldn't be simpler.

 

[Voljin]

Just modify the value of regeneration amount of the unit, couldn't be simpler.

But I don't see a trigger under units which refers to regeneration rate, at least not on my editor.

 

[Wrda]

But I don't see a trigger under units which refers to regeneration rate, at least not on my editor.

In object editor.

 

[Voljin]

In object editor.

But that disables regeneration permanently. I just want to turn it off when the debuff is active.

 

[Wrda]

But that disables regeneration permanently. I just want to turn it off when the debuff is active.

Use your imagination for a moment, either you disable it this way, and when you want regeneration comes back, give the unit a regeneration ability with the about you want, OR do the opposite - have the unit with its regeneration and to "disable" regeneration give it the ability with negative regeneration.
Or in 1.31.1 you can simply

• Unit - Set Unit: Footman 0001 <gen>'s Real Field: Hit Points Regeneration Rate ('uhpr') to Value: 50.00

 

[Voljin]

Well, I tried the negative regeneration rate idea initially, but the unit is a hero, so its health regeneration rate is going to change as you level up/get items/etc. There doesn't seem to be any way to set something = to unit's current health regeneration.

If 1.31.1 has a regeneration feature then I'd love to upgrade, but I've heard only bad, glitchy things about it.

 

[Wrda]

You'll have to update sooner or later anyway, there's no point in staying back.

 

[Voljin]

Fair enough... I'll just use 1.3's system then. Ty for the help.

 

[Uncle]

This doesn't seem to work yet (along with many other things) but it would probably be the easiest solution once it does:

• Unit - Set Unit: YourUnit Integer Field: Hit Points Regeneration Type ('uhrt') to Value: SomeInteger

I tried setting the Value to -10 all the way to 10, but none of them worked.
You'd think it would be like 0 = None, 1 = Always, 2 = Only On Blight, 3 = Only During Day, 4 = Only During Night.

 

[Wrda]

It does work.

 

[Voljin]

This doesn't seem to work yet (along with many other things) but it would probably be the easiest solution once it does:

• Unit - Set Unit: YourUnit Integer Field: Hit Points Regeneration Type ('uhrt') to Value: SomeInteger

I tried setting the Value to -10 all the way to 10, but none of them worked.
You'd think it would be like 0 = None, 1 = Always, 2 = Only On Blight, 3 = Only During Day, 4 = Only During Night.

Yeah, I see the problem here.
Your using an integer field when it should be a real field. At least I believe that's the problem.

 

[Uncle]

This is Hit Points Regeneration TYPE, not the actual amount regenerated. The category for this option is found under Integer, meaning you won't find it under Real or Boolean or String. Like I said, it's not working yet as far as i'm aware but hopefully with the next few patches it will be fixed.

 

[Uncle]

It does work.

Are you confusing my post with what you posted? I posted the actual Regeneration TYPE, which after testing I found doesn't work yet. It references the 5 different types of Regeneration, None, Always, During Night, etc...

If you managed to get the Type to work I'd love to know how.

 

[Voljin]

I get it.

But where is there an integer value for regeneration type though? I'm guessing you'll have to set type equal to an integer to make it work (if that's possible), or just use another mildly more complex trigger that uses real variable for units standing in blight or whatever.

 

[Uncle]

I get it.

But where is there an integer value for regeneration type though? I'm guessing you'll have to set type equal to an integer to make it work (if that's possible), or just use another mildly more complex trigger that uses real variable for units standing in blight or whatever.

Once it works (if it's even going to work) you'll most likely just set the Integer to some number between 0-4 or 1-5. There's 5 options and logically it'd make sense that Blizzard just numbered them this way. Ideally, they would make it so that you could just select Always, None, etc... without having to just guess how Blizzard ordered it.

 

[Voljin]

Well I'd personally prefer a simple drop down bar with all options on it then an integer. But hey, at least its doable either way... which is better luck than I usually get.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Well I'd personally prefer a simple drop down bar with all options on it then an integer. But hey, at least its doable either way... which is better luck than I usually get.

The reason it's done this way is that the functions that change the values are generic functions rather than being specific to the field you are trying to modify. They are just xxSetRealValue() and to be standardized/consistent they take the same input parameters for all fields they can modify.