Item - based ranged attacks (How to?)

[AussieLauren]

Dear all,

I am wondering if anyone knows of a tutorial/site/thread explaining how one gives an item an attack.

By which I mean, if a unit with an inventory holds the item, that unit gains a specific attack. Examples of maps that do this include

• Battleships (etc.)
• Tank Wars
• Paladin TD

Or is the best way to try and deprotect one of these maps and look? (Thhen I would lose any meaninful trigger information - mos have been "optimised (Hashed the function names))

Cheers all, and thanks

 

[Unscrewed_Magic]

I would also like to know how this is done. ^

You can always talk to the creators of Tank Wars in Channel "Clan Tank".

I would do it with colision-less dummy units that follow your character around.

 

[folofofski]

In Battleships they use the Phoenix Fire ability, which automaticly fires missiles randomly.

 

[iron_warrior]

Battleships and maps like it use the ability "Pheonix Fire" that automatically fires projectiles at nearby targets, with a cooldown, regardless of whether or not you're moving.

 

[AussieLauren]

Thanks - will give it a try. Have had a loop at the unprotected battleships map on this site - It's abilities are based off phoenix fire.

Take care, L

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It seems these attacks ignore armour, is this true? (I.E. is it spell damage?)

 

[ANdROnIQ]

There's one more ability like "Phoenix Fire" - rockets that appear on Human Siege Engines after upgrading. They allow them to attack air targets.

One more thing is orbs. Orbs are made by that scheme:
all Heroes even the melee ones already have air attack but it's locked (Combat - Attacks On - Only 1). In the ability which is provided by an orb, u can find Index of Attack field where is 2 - it turns on the second attack but replaces its missile animation with own animation.