Importing Spells..

[cello1993]

Hey I know there are lots of posts on this, and I have seen the tutorials too, but my head is exploding right now and I can't stop thinking there must be a better way to do this.

I mean, the problem with it is that after importing the triggers and importing the custom units / abilities / buffs involved, you also gotta fix the triggers so they match the imported stuff since they won't link properly. But let's say I wanna import a spell from a map which contains multiple way too complex and long triggers. I can't read through all of it, and keep switching between maps to compare and fix the them... so please someone tell me I'm doing something wrong -.-

Thanks

 

[GhostThruster]

I dunno if you refer to not being able to copy variables, but here's how you can copy variables from other maps;
Go to File(on the top tab of the World Edtior)->Preferences, and click the General tab. Then tick the 'Automatically create unknown variables ...' box.

 

[Adiktuz]

Hey I know there are lots of posts on this, and I have seen the tutorials too, but my head is exploding right now and I can't stop thinking there must be a better way to do this.

I mean, the problem with it is that after importing the triggers and importing the custom units / abilities / buffs involved, you also gotta fix the triggers so they match the imported stuff since they won't link properly. But let's say I wanna import a spell from a map which contains multiple way too complex and long triggers. I can't read through all of it, and keep switching between maps to compare and fix the them... so please someone tell me I'm doing something wrong -.-

Thanks

normally, things that need to be changed are on the top of the code (on JASS/vJASS) and on an initialization trigger or on top of the trigger (in GUI)...

and most systems have a HowToImport...

 

[mckill2009]

well no problem for me since I have 2 computers, I can easily view the map on the other side while doin in the other...anyway GT idea is best...

 

[cello1993]

No I didn't mean variables and I don't really use Jass. I meant, for example, if you import a GUI spell you need to go and change the fields in the triggers where the spells appears because they are going to be different. I'm referring to this part of the Spells Importing Tutorial by Daelin:

We have the following condition into the original map:

Quote:
“Ability Being Cast” equal to Mass Sleep

but which in your map will look like this:

Quote:
“Ability Being Cast” equal to Strafe

In this case you will have to go and change this condition. In this case we change the Strafe with Mass Sleep and problem is solved. But how do you know in how many places you need to do this change? Usually they will appear when you refer to custom abilities/units/doodads/items/buffs/models. You will have to check the trigger event by event, condition by condition and action by action and change these accordingly so they look like into the original map.

 

[GhostThruster]

Then don't be lazy, use some common sense and set the fields for yourself. Every spell is different, so unless you have a specific spell, we can't help you.

 

[mckill2009]

when you import spells, its not only triggers you import/change but YOU MUST do everything inlcluding buffs(if have)