[Trigger] DOTA Living Armor

[Dinodin]

Hi. I want the "Living Armor" spell from DOTA in my map. I understand it is based on "Inner Fire" because it restores some health per second. But how do I make the damage block? Pls anyone can make a spellpack to me with the complete spell? @Daffa @the.Axolotl @Chaosium

 

[Daffa]

Weird that I didn't get any alert from the tag... Is it from an edit?

What patch are you on again? Patch is critical when making spells nowadays

I am going to do a double post since tags doesn't function on an edit, but hopefully get attention of the others @the.Axolotl @Chaosium

 

[Chaosium]

Oh boy don't tag me for complex spells I suck at making them xd I'd do something like this with hashtables because otherwise it's unit indexing and it's pain. Using inner fire as a base to handle the HP regen is a good idea at least that's this part taken care of, now for the rest, create a hashtable at map init and then:

• Living Armor Cast
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to YourSpell
  • Actions
    • Set VariableSet LivingArmor_DmgBlock = (20.00 x (Real((Level of (Ability being cast) for (Triggering unit)))))
    • Set VariableSet LivingArmor_HitCount = (3 + (1 x (Level of (Ability being cast) for (Triggering unit))))
    • -------- -------------------------------------------------------- --------
    • Hashtable - Save LivingArmor_DmgBlock as 0 of (Key (Target unit of ability being cast).) in MyHashtable.
    • Hashtable - Save LivingArmor_HitCount as 1 of (Key (Target unit of ability being cast).) in MyHashtable.

The 0 and 1 values that you save can be any number you want as long as they're not used by other systems, I use them to store the values (the reduction and the number of instances). Then:

• Living Armor Tracking
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit About to take damage
  • Conditions
    • ((Triggering unit) has buff YourBuff) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Event Response - Set Damage of Unit Damaged Event to ((Damage taken) - (Load 0 of (Key (Triggering unit).) from MyHashtable.))
    • Hashtable - Save ((Load 1 of (Key (Triggering unit).) from MyHashtable.) - 1) as 1 of (Key (Target unit of ability being cast).) in MyHashtable.
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Load 1 of (Key (Triggering unit).) from MyHashtable.) Equal to 0
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Remove YourBuff buff from (Triggering unit)
      • Else - Actions

It should work like that

 

[Daffa]

Hahaha, Chaosium really beat me to it. Yeah, the simple implementation would be via Hashtable and if not for the dumdum 256 limitation, this would be the best go to option

I think it'll just be some extra variables for Unit Indexer and mostly same, though I'd slap entire regeneration into timers instead

However, a minor note would be if autocast should not exist, probably need to base the ability on something else instead, but otherwise this is perfect solution for quick implementation