[Trigger] How to make my ability more accurate.

[pikachux4]

• Cast Shoot
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Shoot
  • Actions
    • Unit - Create 1 Wisp for (Owner of (Casting unit)) at (Position of (Casting unit)) facing (Facing of (Casting unit)) degrees
    • Set Bullet[(Player number of (Owner of (Casting unit)))] = (Last created unit)

• Shoot Effect
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.01 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Set Loc01[(Integer A)] = ((Position of Bullet[(Integer A)]) offset by 15.00 towards (Facing of Bullet[(Integer A)]) degrees)
        • Unit - Move Bullet[(Integer A)] instantly to Loc01[(Integer A)]
        • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Loc01[GetForLoopIndexA()])

When the wisp is created, its never directly in front of the caster. its like off to the side next to the caster. In the event that a unit suddenly turns to use the ability, the bullet isnt accurate either. how do i make the bullet thing more accurate?

Also, how do i make it deal damage enemy units?

Thank you very much! :3

 

[GhostWolf]

Give the bullet the 'Locust' ability.

 

[Billy the Cat]

Makes me think of Elimination Tournament

For damage the only thing I can think of is giving the bullet immolation (ugly way D or checking the distance between the bullet and enemy units (probably inefficient if you have to check it every 0.01 seconds). Depends on if you want to destroy the bullet if it hits a target (if you wouldn't have it destroyed it would nearly be a shockwave/the bat wave thing, but more accurate if working).

I think the bullets in ET are made with JASS.

GhostWolf is right about the Locust (make sure the bullet doesn't cost food either )

And a little thing: the first action got a location leak (but seeing as how you did the trigger you probably already knew that ^^)

This could probably be fixed in a better way, but I don't know how D:

 

[pikachux4]

oops forgot to mention that it has locust already.. o.o
i tried immolation, the bullets go to fast so immolation doesn't damage and
i also tried unholy aura changing it so it makes people lose health but it doesnt work well and erg i don't know jass hah

thx though o.o

 

[Silvenon]

I suggest changing the interval to 0.03, because 0.01 is too small.

Well, every time ShootEffect trigger fires, you can check are there any enemy units around the bullet. I know this would be really inefficient, but stuff like that work best in JASS, because GUI is just to laggy.

oops forgot to mention that it has locust already.. o.o

What? It has locust? Why is it created next to the caster then? This reminds me of the same problem I had....try to do tests with pinging minimap or something...

Uh, like Billy said, you have a nasty leak in the ShootEffect trigger, store the Position of Bullet[(Integer A)] in a point variable, then destroy it afterwards (the same thing you did with Loc01). The reason why it is nasty is because it's leaking a point every 0.01 seconds.

 

[Coolty44]

Try changing it to a flying unti, then it shouldnt have to worry about collisions

 

[Billy the Cat]

Uh, like Billy said, you have a nasty leak in the ShootEffect trigger, store the Position of Bullet[(Integer A)] in a point variable, then destroy it afterwards (the same thing you did with Loc01). The reason why it is nasty is because it's leaking a point every 0.01 seconds.

A nasty one in the second part and a little leak in the first one to be exact.

 

[Justify]

Try changing it to a flying unti, then it shouldnt have to worry about collisions

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CreateUnit still checks for collision, although they have locust.
There are two easy possibilities that worked for me:
- movetype flying/none
- after creating the units, setting it's position with SetUnitX/Y since they ignore collision too

 

[Billy the Cat]

I have no idea why it gives that problem with the dummy. What spell did you base the Shoot of?

For the damage:
Do you want the bullets to go through units or should it stop on a hit?

 

[pikachux4]

i based shoot off shockwave
i want the bullets to stop on hit o.o

 

[Billy the Cat]

I was doing some little things yesterday and also got problems with dummy wisps... dunno why.

 

[Reaper2008]

Maybe use location with polar offset in the direction of the strike, and say about 60-70 points offset?

 

[Billy the Cat]

Could make sense since I don't know if the view angles always make sense

 

[pikachux4]

thanks for help guys