Epicenter?

[BLAUGHUM]

sup hive
im not sure how to do this thread thing but here it goes...

im having trouble with trying to recreate the skill epicenter.
i was gonna make a map of random heroes, and this dude
named bobby would have this skill epicenter like the one from DoTA.

the spell goes like this, bobby throws a bean on the floor
and it forms an epicenter around the bean. a few seconds
later, the bean grows into a bean stalk that bobby can ride
and he is invulnerable for 10 seconds until the beanstalk
wears off.

yeah i have a wild imagination, high expectation and
terrible skills in triggering. sorry if its too wild.

btw, if its JASS, im screwed :]

 

[Boar]

Can you explain what you mean by this statement:

"and it forms an epicenter around the bean"

 

[Zaio]

He means what it says, an epicenter will form around the bean, so when the bean is placed at target point, an epicenter will be triggered from it.

 

[Boar]

I havent exactly been an avid player of Dota, So I dont know what Epicenter actually does.

 

[Zaio]

Well, basically after channeled for a few seconds, a sort of ripple will be pushed out of crix (the sand king) it does multiple epicenters, some starting before others have finished, the closer units are to the epicenter the more damage it will deal, and each unit can only be damaged once by each epicenter (multiple ripples from the same epicenter will still damage the target) however i presume that he will not want it to be channeled for a few seconds.

 

[defskull]

Epicenter is a hard skill to be explained, hard indeed.
You better provide him with a video, here's the picture of what Epicenter looks like..

Sand King's Epicenter

 

[Magtheridon96]

Epicenter:

2 second casting time, then, each 0.5 seconds, you'd damage and ministun all units in range and create a special effect.

It's not so hard :/

 

[Boar]

So, does the damage apply when the ring hits an enemy, or does the damage happen when the ring spawns? If it is the latter, It is possible to make a simple RNG aoe damage type abillity.

 

[Zaio]

Damage is dealt when the ring hits the enemy, the closer the enemy is to start of the epicenter the more damage it will deal.

 

[defskull]

Epicenter:

2 second casting time, then, each 0.5 seconds, you'd damage and ministun all units in range and create a special effect.

It's not so hard :/

Like they said, Picture worths a thousand words.

Damage is dealt when the ring hits the enemy, the closer the enemy is to start of the epicenter the more damage it will deal.

All mechanics of this spells seems to be easy to do it, but the hard part, is the the closer the enemy to the epicenter point, the more damage it will take

You must divide the damage dealt into several categories.

Use this for range differentiation

• Actions
  • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
    • If - Conditions
      • (Distance between (Position of (Triggering unit)) and (Position of (EnemyUnit))) Greater than or equal to 150.00
      • (Distance between (Position of (Triggering unit)) and (Position of (EnemyUnit))) Less than or equal to 300.00
    • Then - Actions
      • -------- Greatest damage dealt --------
    • Else - Actions
      • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        • If - Conditions
          • (Distance between (Position of (Triggering unit)) and (Position of (EnemyUnit))) Greater than or equal to 301.00
          • (Distance between (Position of (Triggering unit)) and (Position of (EnemyUnit))) Less than or equal to 450.00
        • Then - Actions
          • -------- Moderate damage dealt --------
        • Else - Actions
          • Bla bla bla more I/T/E...

EnemyUnit is Unit variable.

And yes, I know the trigger leaks (I'm not focusing into leak parts, thank you.)

 

[BLAUGHUM]

so i could use a dummy unit to do that?

 

[defskull]

Use dummy units, for ?
The unit-reference is the Caster, you doesn't even need dummy for this one.

 

[BLAUGHUM]

sorry, i was talking about the spell i was gonna make
when the hero throws the bean on the floor.

 

[defskull]

That is definately, a dummy.