Freezing Hit Points

[plumsy460]

Is there a good way to make a unit's hit points stuck? Meaning it becomes inchangable in spite of damage, healing and regeneration.

Using a periodic timer to reset HP to a var is one way. But it doesn't prevent death if one instance of damage exceeds HP.

Using a damage taken event is also a way. But it doesn't stop regeneration and healing.

I guess I could combine those two methods, but I would like to know if there is a better way.

Thanks in advance

 

[Solu9]

You can to a combination of adding Invulnerability and resetting the unit's HP.
That will prevent any damage and reset healing.

Edit:
In case you want it to be attackable still, then use Hardened Skin with a 100% chance to reduce damage, 0 minimum damage taken, and a damage reduction of 999999999999

 

[plumsy460]

I see, thank you very much.

Does Hardened Skin work on abilities though? Or any other source of damage like triggers, spells etc.

 

[Solu9]

Actually I'm not sure. But I think it blocks any kind of damage. Because except Chaos.
You can easily test this though.

 

[plumsy460]

True. I'll run some tests later then. I'll repost the thread if my problem is unsolved.

Thanks for your help so far

 

[edo494]

it doesnt reduce damage from spells, I just tested it with footman with modified Hardened skin and throwing storm bolt on him. To make this truly work, you could pick(if you are not using already) a Damage Detectino system on hive(Looking for help has nice GUI damage detection system, Bribe and Weep have one too) and then when unit has some dummy ability on him, you change the damage the unit receives to 0. This will block ALL incomming damage, no matter if it is from spell, triggers or basic attack swing.

However if you truly want to freeze the unit's hp you must also somehow manipulate the units hp regeneration(if you want to truly freeze it)

 

[Vinz]

I think defskull has a freeze system for regen?

 

[edo494]

you can have it in hashtable for muiness and loop every 0.03 seconds for instance checking if units hp has raised, if it did then you set it back to the number in hashtable. Not that hard

 

[Vinz]

Ryt was confused by your post lol. The method was mentioned earlier.