Dynamic Strings

[defskull]

Do we have the technology yet to apply strings that come from a variable to Item Description OR Ability Description while the game is progressing ?

Example (Ability -> Item):
An ability called "Power Enchancement" in which the caster will cast the ability to give an item to gain a temporary added bonus damage (for the wielder of the item) of 50~70% at random for 3 minutes.
So the ability can give the item an added bonus damage of either 50, 51, 52, ..., 70.
Then, while the buff is in effect, an added text of how much the bonus is, will be added to the Item Description.

Example 2 (Item):
This item will deal X damage to enemy unit.
X is a formula for damage that is a Real Variable comes from Trigger Editor.
X is a dynamic variable, should not come from Object Editor, static description.

Example 3 (Ability):
Your damage will increase by 1% per 1% missing Maximum Health.
Let's say you lost 37% of Health, now you would have a +37% bonus damage.
The text in the ability description should read as "You now gain +37% bonus damage" instead of static description like "You will gain 1% bonus damage per 1% missing Maximum Health.

 

[Bribe]

Well, wc3 technology is stuck in 2001, and any software created after that by the community is only for pre-processing the map before it is loaded (so, no dynamic indexing) or (if it's been done) made possibly by software like Reinventing the Craft or Sharpcraft - neither of which work on Battle.net if I am not mistaken.

 

[sethmachine]

Unless there's a native for it, there's no way to change an object's field values dynamically / in game.

If there was a way to write/read from memory in game / via triggers (as is the case for Starcraft I), then perhaps you could change the value in the string table or whatever data structure the item descriptions are put in, or the pointer of the item description.

I'm certain there is a safe way to write/read to some areas of memory in WC3, perhaps taking advantage of buffer overflows, but people haven't cared enough to find this out. In Starcraft I, they use "extended" units to accomplish this task: http://www.staredit.net/topic/15356/

Barring the non-existent memory reading/writing API, you just have to use what the editor supports.

To simulate what you want, you could just create many different versions of your items, and do an item replacement each time.

 

[Bribe]

The easiest method is to trigger all tooltips as game messages, window contents or text tags.

 

[Chaosy]

I guess you COULD do it by modifying the memory. Which is basically hacking with a third party program.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I guess you COULD do it by modifying the memory. Which is basically hacking with a third party program.

Any such method can be considered unsafe and will have to be patched for security reasons. This was the case with the type casting exploit and code type variables.

It just is not possible in WC3. Fortunately they added such support to StarCraft II as seen in Heroes of the Storm.