How do i make "Attack Damage" affect a spell?

[White-Lion]

Hello could someone tell me how to do a spell that is affected by the heros attack damage (GUI)?

 

[DragoonZombie]

What you can do, is detect the damage a unit does when he attacks and then apply additional damage.
Keyword: Damage Detection

 

[White-Lion]

yeah, that could do it, but it wouldnt be perfect
I was looking for another way

 

[DragoonZombie]

The second, but more work needed method is that you store the units basic damage in a variable. Now everytime for example the hero gains an item that increases damage, learns a skill, gets a buff etc. you'll add those to the dmg variable.
Believe me, damage detection is way easier than doing this.

 

[I34w90_238j]

White-Lion, could you perhaps give an example of that "spell" and what does it do?

 

[ALiEN95]

you can use action "unit - unit target" for that
but the problem is to detect damage

how long is the cooldown for that spell?
how much of heroes that have that ability could be in your map?
(it would be good if only one max for each palyer)
is it ok if delay is 0.5 - 1 second? (depends how fast attack your hero has)
while that 0.5-1 seconds your hero cannot do anything else or the damage detection fails

anyway i could make it so it happens after 0.5...

 

[CrazyKiD]

White-Lion, what kind of spell do you actually want? Something like DotA's Omnislash or Blink Strike?

 

[White-Lion]

sorry didnt see thoose last comment

I was just wondering how the trigger would look like.
The spell should be very simple just the hero damagin the target dealing X*Damage

 

[I34w90_238j]

So you need that X set to the Hero's damage he deals? And do you know that damage is often random?

There's no certain way.
But the idea of seeing how much damage the hero often does, and storing that damage to a variable to use in the spell, is pretty suitable.

Maybe you could use Mirror Image ability - set Data - Damage dealt to 100%
Then you force the hero to cast Mirror Image ability to create his clone, then you teleport his clone to the target of the spell, and order him to attack?