[General] Fireball

[MajorKaza]

Hi there,

Do you know what AoE data in fireball skill does?

Thanks,

 

[Kitabatake]

Nothing. It's a single target spell.

 

[Rozll0rt]

What do you mean fireball?. If fire bolt Like Kitabatake said there ↑ it is a single target spell and it is similar to a stunning spell

 

[MajorKaza]

Yes, I know. But there is AoE data row in object editor. I assume that this is changeing something, isn't it?

 

[TwoVenomous]

since Fireball is a single target spell, changing it's AOE will do nothing

 

[Kitabatake]

Yes, I know. But there is AoE data row in object editor. I assume that this is changeing something, isn't it?

No.

There are plenty of useless data fields in the object editor.
You just have to know which ones are actually used by the spell and which are not.


Hint: often data fields with the default value of "0" or "None" are not used by the spell.

 

[CivSavage]

So why do some spells have things like aoe data if they dont use them? Since not all spells have these useless fields? Makes no sense.

 

[edo494]

Blizzard being too lazy to make every spells object data unique

But not all fields that has 0 or none are useless, most of them however are

 

[MajorKaza]

Thats a bit wierd, but thank you all.

BTW
Any idea how to add AoE effect? As I remember well rain of chaos and rocket swarm are area target spell, not unit target.

 

[Adiktuz]

Find AoE target abilities that is the same as the one you like to create [like rain of fire, blizzard etc] and use them as base, or base your spell on the hero ability "Channel" which will allow you to make an AoE selector but you will need to trigger whatever your ability should be doing...

and yes the editor is weird... Blizz even have time to put (NYI) [not yet implemented] tags into some data on the gameplay constants which are not functional when they could have just not added those options on the first place... they could have used the time adding those NYI things to fix some stuff instead... there's also some spells that bug when used as base for custom abilities (like cloud of fog which only accepts the data of the original ability)...