Is Blizzard For Real? (Identifying Negative Numbers)

[Rispetto]

Sc2 Editor's Logic Is Broken?

SOLVED

Edit: The problem was indeed with absolute values. Even changing the y part of the "is x equal to y" there was still an "is x absolute" function in the trigger. I didn't even think of that.
Thank you all for your help.

Old Trigger

• Deal Damage
  • Events
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
      • If
        • Or
          • Conditions
            • (Abs(Enemy Shields)) < 0
            • (Abs(Enemy Shields)) == 0
      • Then
        • Variable - Modify Enemy Hull: - Player Weapon Effective Damage
        • Variable - Set Player Current Weapon Effective Cooldown = (Abs(Player Current Weapon Cooldown))
      • Else
    • General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
      • If
        • (Abs(Enemy Shields)) > 0
      • Then
        • Variable - Modify Enemy Shields: - Player Weapon Effective Damage
        • Variable - Set Player Current Weapon Effective Cooldown = (Abs(Player Current Weapon Cooldown))
      • Else

New Trigger

• Deal Damage
  • Events
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
      • If
        • Or
          • Conditions
            • Enemy Shields < 0
            • Enemy Shields == 0
      • Then
        • Variable - Modify Enemy Hull: - Player Weapon Effective Damage
        • Variable - Set Player Current Weapon Effective Cooldown = (Abs(Player Current Weapon Cooldown))
      • Else
    • General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
      • If
        • Enemy Shields > 0
      • Then
        • Variable - Modify Enemy Shields: - Player Weapon Effective Damage
        • Variable - Set Player Current Weapon Effective Cooldown = (Abs(Player Current Weapon Cooldown))
      • Else
• [/hidden]

When identifying an integer variable, it considers negative numbers as positive? What the f***?

I tried changing the hinge value from 0 to 1 but it had no effect (I thought maybe it just considered 0 a negative number).

Edit: This does not work either..

trigger

• Deal Damage
  • Events
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
    • General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
      • If
        • Or
          • Conditions
            • (Abs(Enemy Shields)) < 0
            • (Abs(Enemy Shields)) == 0
      • Then
        • Variable - Modify Enemy Hull: - Player Weapon Effective Damage
        • Variable - Set Player Current Weapon Effective Cooldown = (Abs(Player Current Weapon Cooldown))
      • Else
    • General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
      • If
        • (Abs(Enemy Shields)) > 0
      • Then
        • Variable - Modify Enemy Shields: - Player Weapon Effective Damage
        • Variable - Set Player Current Weapon Effective Cooldown = (Abs(Player Current Weapon Cooldown))
      • Else

No matter what, unless the enemy shields lands exactly on 0 it will deal damage to the shields.

Which is funny because in both instances I have it set to greater than or less than 0, not 0 itself.

THIS FUCKING LOGIC IS BROKEN!!!

I'd make a trigger to identify the negative amount to shields and apply it to hull but hows that possible if the game cant recognize negative numbers (even though in game it shows -## as current values).

 

[WaterKnight]

I do not get it? You have used the abs (absolute)-function everywhere, which reverses negative values. So yeah, the result is always positive or zero.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You are aware that Abs is short of absolute which is the magnitude of a vector?

A negative number is a vector with magnitude equal to its absolute towards -180 degrees (or pi radians). Magnitudes by their vary nature will always be positive as a negative magnitude is the same vector flipped by 180 degrees (or pi radians) in either direction.

 

[Rispetto]

What you're all saying is that absolute makes it reverse, but up until 5 minutes before I posted this I used true values (not using absolute) so this is not the problem.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I am sorry but they work perfectly.