How would I go about spell attack indexing?

[Nestharus]

I've been racking my brain over this and I can't figure out any surefire way to do it.

Unknown damage could come from UnitDamageTarget, some random effect like poison, or a spell.

When a unit casts a spell, the events fire in this order-
Spell cast
Attack
Damage on spell hit

The spell hit could be instant or it could be 55 seconds later depending on the spell (some spells are akin to projectiles remember?).

This means that trying to load up spell orders would be impossible as you couldn't relate the damage to the spell that was cast.

I just have no clue how to pull this off without spamming a million buffs for each spell, lol.

 

[crehym]

I can only think of few ways, and all using customized damage system.

1. Your idea, using buffs to detect projectile hit.
2. Using units as your projectiles.
3. Separating physical and magical damage. I use this in my map. all spells are triggered to do damage from a dummy unit. A dummy unit for every hero unit. Then that's my magical damage, everything from the hero will then be physical.

 

[mckill2009]

you mean the hit and damage synchronized ?

 

[Nestharus]

->you mean the hit and damage synchronized ?

like a GetEventAttack on spell damage (spell is a type of attack after all)

 

[mckill2009]

a formula is needed...depends on main attribute...

Damage Number of dice + (MAIN ATTRIBUTE)
Damage Number of dice * Damage sides per die + (MAIN ATTRIBUTE)

example: Blood Mage (level 1)

2 + 19 = 21
2*4 + 19 = 27

Result: 21-27

 

[Nestharus]

Er... I don't see what that has to do with any of this... lol

That's not used in attack indexing or spell attack indexing ; P.

 

[defskull]

That Spell Cast is some sort of buff or something to your unit ?
Say, you cast a spell named "Charged Strike", then, after the damage is done WITH the buff takes place for that unit, the damage (or should I say BONUS damage) occurs ?

 

[Maker]

Say, you cast a spell named "Charged Strike", then, after the damage is done WITH the buff takes place for that unit, the damage (or should I say BONUS damage) occurs ?

I just have no clue how to pull this off without spamming a million buffs for each spell, lol.

He said in the first post that he doesn't want to create buffs for every spell

 

[defskull]

So...
No need buff for that ?
Just, make boolean, True and False ?
When he cast that spell, set it on True
After release on unit, set it on False, can that work, Maker ?

 

[Maker]

So...
No need buff for that ?
Just, make boolean, True and False ?
When he cast that spell, set it on True
After release on unit, set it on False, can that work, Maker ?

Not just like that.

How would you identify which spell it was that caused the damage?

 

[defskull]

Hahahaha flaws~
He HAS to use buff, or else Maker, what do you have in mind.. ?

 

[mckill2009]

Er... I don't see what that has to do with any of this... lol

That's not used in attack indexing or spell attack indexing ; P.

enlighten us more then...

 

[Nestharus]

enlighten us more then...

I can't because I have no idea what your thing even has to do with spell attack indexing or plain attack indexing. Your thing doesn't even make sense... it's to calculate damage on a hero, which wouldn't even work, a method that wouldn't even actually work as it could have abilities...

Hahahaha flaws~
He HAS to use buff, or else Maker, what do you have in mind.. ?

Using buffs would be impossible because the w3u and wts files or w/e don't have custom things in it with no custom data. That means if an ability was in there with no custom data, lua wouldn't catch it. Furthermore, it'd be a pain to update for every time an ability was added or destroyed in the map : |. Also, it'd obviously be a pain to do the parsing ;P.

Yea, the overhead wouldn't be that big at all, but grimoire is bugged -.-, so impossible.

 

[Bribe]

Poll Blizzard to add GetEventDamageType and GetEventAttackType.