Dodge basic attacks if not in range?

[evjhen]

In warcraft if the unit attacks and the oponnent moves away, the attack still hits once the animation is started. Is there a way to change this? Like if i move the enemy just miss the attack?

 

[Pyrogasm]

Yes, but you will need a Damage Detection System. When a unit takes attack damage from another unit, load that unit’s attack range value (from the ‘unit real field’ natives now in the game) and compare it to the distance between them. If larger then reduce the damage dealt to 0 and play a custom ‘miss’ floating text.

 

[Elprede]

In the object editor, set (Combat - Attack 1 - Range Motion Buffer) to a low number. By default, it is 250. If you set it to 0, the unit will miss a lot.

 

[evjhen]

Yes, but you will need a Damage Detection System. When a unit takes attack damage from another unit, load that unit’s attack range value (from the ‘unit real field’ natives now in the game) and compare it to the distance between them. If larger then reduce the damage dealt to 0 and play a custom ‘miss’ floating text.

Thanks, i tried and it worked. Is there any way to also nullify the sound?

 

[Pyrogasm]

No, short of setting all unit attack sound fields to nothing and then playing attack sounds manually yourself.

 

[Uncle]

Isn't GhostHunter's suggestion about changing the attack's Range Motion Buffer the better solution here? It'll trigger a standard "Miss" instead of having to rely on a workaround.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Probably.

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

Thanks, i tried and it worked. Is there any way to also nullify the sound?

No, short of setting all unit attack sound fields to nothing and then playing attack sounds manually yourself.

A tiny workaround for this is setting the armor type of the target to ethereal when a miss occurs. That way you will hear *kind of* a miss sound.

• Sound
  • Events
    • Game - DamageModifierEvent becomes Equal to 1.00
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set DamageEventArmorT = ARMOR_TYPE_ETHEREAL

Playing attack sounds manually will probably sound very strange as I believe only one concurrent sound per channel can be played.