[Trigger] Forked spell

[Darkshine]

Greetings people! I'm posting one more time because of the great help that all give me.

So, this time i need to do a spell very near to Forked Lightning. Basically, i want to do, through the triggers (and know if IS possible to do), a spell with the this functionality:

- Unit casts the spell. So, nine lightnings are released over the nearby enemies (like forked lightning).

- Each lightning released do, lets say, 100 damage (So it is 100 damage to nine differents targets). However, unlike Forked Lightning, i want that spell release ALWAYS nine lightnings, independant of the nearby enemies.

- So... If the unit casts the spell and, lets say, there is only 3 enemies nearby, each of they receives 3 lightnings (300 damage in each). In the case of even numbers (lets say³, 2 enemies) they divide like 4 lightnings to the first and 5 lightnings to the others.


Of course, i don't know how i can do it through the triggering, so i need some help. If anybody have some ideas i will like to read them. Thanks people

 

[Bribe]

1. Set your targets allowed on that spell to 1.
2. Make a unit based off footman.
3. Make a new forked lightning with hero ability unchecked. Targets allowed = 1. Damage equal to your hero's spell damage (for each level). Mana cost of zero each level.
4. Give the new forked lightning to the footman.
5. Create a variable called Dummy
6. The rest needs JASS. Do you know JASS? I can do this for you in JASS, but it won't do you any good if you don't know what I'm talking about.

 

[Darkshine]

no, i don't know anything about JASS... =\
in fact, until now i only do things in GUI with the world editor, well, but anything you can do to help will be very well accepted (normally i take the scripts and try to understand)

for now ty ^^

 

[Element of Water]

Does it heck need Jass? Sure, it'd be better in Jass, but it certainly doesn't need it since it's an instant effect spell.

 

[Darkshine]

Hum, yeah, what i want is know a way to do this without JASS...

 

[Tiche3]

It should be possible, but i can't do it, i'm not that advanced in GUI ;/

Tiche3

 

[Bribe]

Is there a boolean in GUI that says "unit is in fog of war"?

 

[Bribe]

OK, once you have your customized footman, make its movement type to fly, then set the range of your new spell to 500 greater than the range of the original forked lightning. Create an integer variable called UnitsHit, a Point variable called Point1 and a boolean variable called Debug.

Try this for a trigger:

• Lightning Trigger
• Events
  • Unit - A unit starts the effect of an ability
• Conditions
  • (Ability being cast) equal to (Forked Lightning)
• Actions
  • Set UnitsHit = 0
  • Set Point1 = (Location of (Triggering Unit))
  • Custom script: loop
    • Trigger - Run (Lightning Loop)
    • Custom script: exitwhen udg_UnitsHit > 9 or Debug == true
  • Custom script: endloop
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Point1)

• Lightning Loop
• Events
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Custom script: set bj_wantDestroyGroup = true
  • Set Debug = true
  • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (units within 500 of (Target unit of ability being cast)) and do multiple actions
    • Loop - Actions
      • Custom script: If IsUnitFogged(GetEnumUnit(), GetOwningPlayer(GetTriggerUnit())) and udg_UnitsHit < 10 then
        • Set Debug = false
        • Set UnitsHit = UnitsHit + 1
        • Unit - Create 1 Footman for (Owner of Triggering Unit) at Point1 Facing 0 degrees
        • Unit - Hide (last created unit)
        • Unit - Add a 2.00 (Generic) expiration timer to (last created unit)
        • Unit - Order (last created unit) to Naga Sea Witch - Forked Lightning (Picked unit)
      • Custom script: endif

This should launch the custom Forked Lightning up to 9 times. If there is only one unit in the range, the custom forked lightning will launch 9 times at that one unit. Let me know how it works.

 

[Darkshine]

Sorry for the delay in the response.

I will try use your triggers and, soon as possible, i will tell if works. But very thanks for the help by now

 

[Bribe]

I changed the post a bit, I forgot there's a glitch with using Integer A and I added a failsafe to prevent a different glitch from happening. As long as you copy all the custom scripts and put each thing in the EXACT place that I did, this thing should work.

 

[Berb]

What exactly is this "glitch" with Integer A ?

 

[Bribe]

The glitch is when you do "for each int A from 0 to UnitsHit" if you modify the integer "UnitsHit" within the loop, like it needs to be, it doesn't extend the loop's exit point.

 

[Element of Water]

That's not a "glitch", that's a feature. The only "glitch" with Integer A/B loops is that if a unit is killed, or something similar which starts a trigger, and that trigger uses Integer A/B loops, it fucks up because the other trigger might modify Integer A/B. "for each int A from 0 to UnitsHit" wouldn't work in this case anyway, even if the feature wasn't in place.

 

[Bribe]

That's not a "glitch", that's a feature.

It's a waste of programming space.

"for each int A from 0 to UnitsHit" wouldn't work in this case anyway, even if the feature wasn't in place.

Why? What's wrong with what I did?

 

[Element of Water]

Think about it...

local integer a = 0
local integer b = 0
loop
    exitwhen a > b
    b = b + GetRandomInt(0, 9)
    a = a + 1
endloop

This is effectively what your code did...

 

[Bribe]

Think about it...

local integer i = 0
loop
    set i = i + GetRandomInt(0, 9)
    exitwhen i > 9
endloop

Is not the same as what you wrote.

 

[Element of Water]

The glitch is when you do "for each int A from 0 to UnitsHit" if you modify the integer "UnitsHit" within the loop, like it needs to be, it doesn't extend the loop's exit point.

You wrote it like exitwhen a > b...

 

[Bribe]

The original code that I gave him was essentially:

• For each Integer A from 1 to UnitsHit do
  • Loop - Actions
    • Set UnitsHit = UnitsHit + 1

And that UnitsHit modification there doesn't change the loop exit point, at all, because the GUI loop does this in JASS set forLoopAIndexEnd = udg_UnitsHit and that's outside of the loop so modifying udg_UnitsHit within the loop does not change the exit point in the slightest.

 

[Element of Water]

Ok. And my point is that changing the exit point would make it bug anyway... If you want a maximum of 9, do "from 1 to 9". "From 1 to HitUnits" isn't going to give you a maximum of 9 is it?

 

[Bribe]

Let's dissect this a little more. exitwhen udg_UnitsHit > 9 or Debug == true Is not From 1 to UnitsHit, I changed it to be from 1 to 9 with UnitsHit being the variable increment. And, in case UnitsHit doesn't change, I added the failsafe boolean to prevent an infinite loop. This trigger should work exactly the way I told him.