GUI Attack Detection 1.0

[Moderator]

17:25, 7th Oct 2009
TriggerHappy187:

There are far better damage detection systems than this.

Unless you find someway to simplify this and not have it be so static, then it may be approvable.

 

[cookies4you]

sorry for my poor GIMP skills and my sloppy handwriting. Hey, all I've got is this mouse. Well here's another one of my systems, and its made in GUI! Enjoy!

 

[TriggerHappy]

It would be better to simply only have this system detect when a unit is damaged, and have another blank trigger for any actions the user wants to add.

This way the user can do whatever they want when a unit is damaged. Sort of like this;

• Actions
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- What to do when a unit is damaged --------
    • Trigger - Run Trigger 1 <gen> (checking conditions)
    • Trigger - Run Trigger 2 <gen> (checking conditions)

And have the damage detection trigger run this.

 

[Weep]

Doesn't seem to work quite right - if I start attacking a unit with the Chieftain, then quickly stop and cast Shockwave at it, it will still show a hit.

Also, what happens if a spell is cast, then the unit starts an attack (eg. a ranged unit), and the spell hits before the attack hits but after the attack started?

 

[cookies4you]

Doesn't seem to work quite right - if I start attacking a unit with the Chieftain, then quickly stop and cast Shockwave at it, it will still show a hit.

Also, what happens if a spell is cast, then the unit starts an attack (eg. a ranged unit), and the spell hits before the attack hits but after the attack started?

thats an error... im not sure of that really as warcraft cant detect spell damage

 

[cedi]

There is a work around to fix that bug. First of all you need a buff which is applied on attack, for example Ice attack. Now make a trigger with the unit takes damage event. Then in the trigger you save the attacker und the attacking unit in globals und execute another Trigger ( maybe you need to use a timer instat of a normal call ) in the other Trigger you need to show if the attacked unit has the ice buff. If it has the buff, remove it and you know, the unit was attacked by the attacking unit.

cedi

 

[pippo]

Can't find any good use of it...
I think that if it display the damage suffered, it will be really usefull, but a simply text "hit" is useless...

 

[FlowerofSpeech]

Can't find any good use of it...
I think that if it display the damage suffered, it will be really usefull, but a simply text "hit" is useless...

Haven't tried it yet, but this system could be useful even with just the 'hit'. Realize in GUI there's no way to detect when a unit actually deals damage, only when a unit is attacking. This is problematic for some passive abilities players want to create using GUI. A hit detect system for GUI would be very useful, even if it only displayed 'hit'.

 

[pippo]

You could make "an unit suffers a damage"...

For example:
Event: A unit enters entire map
Action: Add to the trigger (What_You_Want) the Event: (Specific Unit Event) - Entering unit suffers a damage

And then all what there is...

And

 

[FlowerofSpeech]

(Specific Unit Event) - Entering unit suffers a damage

I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure this doesn't work. Even if you tag a unit to a variable, the 'unit suffers damage' event can only refer to units that are placed in the map at map initialization (using GUI). When you use 'suffers damage' event it forces you to pick a unit already placed in the map.

 

[Yixx]

I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure this doesn't work. Even if you tag a unit to a variable, the 'unit suffers damage' event can only refer to units that are placed in the map at map initialization (using GUI). When you use 'suffers damage' event it forces you to pick a unit already placed in the map.

Fail. How else do you think vJass damage detection systems work? In the exact same way. You can use that event for preplaced units, but you can also register events later on in the game, and register them with a unit variable. Not only preplaced units can be used, only specific units. It says specific, not preplaced, and ass variables hold a specific data, you can also register events with the current data of them.

 

[pippo]

Fail. How else do you think vJass damage detection systems work? In the exact same way. You can use that event for preplaced units, but you can also register events later on in the game, and register them with a unit variable. Not only preplaced units can be used, only specific units. It says specific, not preplaced, and ass variables hold a specific data, you can also register events with the current data of them.

That is...

 

[FhelZone]

Hmm, if the trigger detects that the unit is attacked although it received a damage from a spell or something then it would cause a mayhem when the unit has a skill same to immolation.

 

[TheUltimate]

Write the Damage and not "hit"

Your system is boring and not really important for good games. I mean everybody can write "hit", if a unit is attacked! If you write the damage and not
"hit", then your system is good!!!