[General] How to put the green bonus damage from a unit in a variable?

[AtivEnergy]

Greetings!

I wanted to put in a floating text the entire damage that a specific unit has before reduction.
For example - My unit has..
16 - Base Damage
1 - Number of Dice
21 - Sides per Die

If I want to calculate the average damage per hit, I will use this formula.

• Set VariableSet IntegerBaseDamageStryg = ((((Unit: (Damage source)'s Weapon Integer Field: Attack Damage Base ('ua1b') at Index:0) + (Unit: (Damage source)'s Weapon Integer Field: Attack Damage Number Of Dice ('ua1d') at Index:0)) + ((Unit: (Damage source)'s Weapon Integer Field: Attack Damage Base

[(16+1) + (16+21)] / 2 - And that works well.

The problem appear when I want to put the bonus (green) damage in this formula.
For example. My unit will use Roar (25% bonus (green) damage) or other kind of (green) bonus damage.
I don't know how to put that bonus (green) damage in the above formula.

I want to put that average damage + bonus green damage in a floating text integer.

Is there a way to do that?

The help will be appreaciated!

Edit: Another good question is.. How can I find and put in a variable the damage deal by a specific unit before reduction?

 

[AtivEnergy]

Bump. So it is impossible?

 

[Rheiko]

I am not very well informed on how the new native event for damage detection works (I'm still using 1.26 up to this day, 1.31.1 only occasionally).

But in the old days, we would use Damage Engine 5.A.0.0 for this kind of stuff and I believe it's still relevant even on newer patches (Please correct me if I'm mistaken). It's a powerful system that allows you to detect damage not only the moment when it's taken by a unit but also before and after that.

So with that, you could easily get the damage dealt before armor reduction by utilizing "PreDamageEvent Becomes Equal to <any value>" and reference DamageEventAmount which holds the damage value.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Edit: Another good question is.. How can I find and put in a variable the damage deal by a specific unit before reduction?

You can use the event "about to take damage":

• Events
  • Unit - A unit About to take damage

Then you can use the value "Event Response - Damage Taken" to determine the amount of damage the attack would have done before any armor reductions, spell reductions, etc. are applied.

For your original question, sadly you can't natively detect the bonus green damage that a unit has. Your main options are to either:

1. Check which buffs/items the attacker has and calculate the bonus granted. This is pretty manual and depends on what abilities/items your map uses.
2. (Preferred, but requires a lot more investment) You can use a custom bonus mod system (e.g. New Bonus [vJASS][LUA]), and trigger all your bonuses. That way you can easily just use GetUnitBonus(u, BONUS_DAMAGE) to see how much bonus damage that unit has. But that means you'll have to manually trigger all your damage bonus spells/items (that system has some really helpful functions though, e.g. to tie a bonus to a buff or item).

 

[Uncle]

Here's a method to get + green damage that could work well depending on the situation.

Trigger to record units attack damage + bonuses?

Having trouble finding a way to set an integer... when recording a hero's attributes there is the option to "include bonuses", however for attack damage there is not... for some reason it will only allow me to record a units "base damage" without any include bonuses option. What I'm trying to do...

www.hiveworkshop.com

If your map is multiplayer then the above solution will likely desync, which is why I made this:

MULTIPLAYER FRIENDLY code needed for obtaining attack damage + bonuses

Been testing a custom recently and getting random desyncs with my testers, couldn't figure out why until recently I noticed that with certain spells it will show damage done on my screen roughly x10 what my tester sees... the context is this, I have test dummies set up to test spells, when he...

www.hiveworkshop.com

Same idea, but syncs the data between players. I can't guarantee that it works, though.

 

[AtivEnergy]

Thank you all!
I didn't expect this problem to have no easy fix..
I will take all your responses in consideration, but i'll abandon this idea for the moment.
Thank you again!