Item Levels

[Kiros72]

i was wondering is there a special way to make the item trigger a lot more shorter because currently i have down this. the trigger is working correctly however once i finish with them there will be more than 100 active item combinations due to items such as
Angelic robe Lvl 1 - gives the wearer 20 HP
all the way to
Angelic Robe Lvl 20 - gives the wearer 400 HP

• Events - Unit Aquires and Item
• Conditions - Wait 0.01 seconds
• If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
  • If - Conditions
    • ((Hero manipulating item) has an item of type Angelic Robe Level 1) Equal to True
    • ((Hero manipulating item) has an item of type Angelic Robe Level 1) Equal to True
  • Then - Actions
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the overhead of (Buying unit) using Abilities\Spells\Other\Charm\CharmTarget.mdl
    • Item - Remove (Item carried by (Hero manipulating item) of type Angelic Robe Level 1)
    • Item - Remove (Item carried by (Hero manipulating item) of type Angelic Robe Level 1)
    • Hero - Create Angelic Robe Level 2 and give it to (Hero manipulating item)
  • Else - Actions

my question is this, is there a another method of making the level item trigger without having me to create 20 of each ones that has a level like this? because i fear that it would cause the map to load very slow when people play it and also if i use map optimizer, who knows what bugs can occur.

 

[Preskooldude]

I believe the answer would lie in arrays, and their indexing capabilities...

I'm not the most efficient coder (Pointed out by Dr Super Good), but here's what I've got:

• Initializer
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Angelic_Robe[0] = Angelic Robe Level 1
    • Set Angelic_Robe[1] = Angelic Robe Level 2
    • Set Angelic_Robe[2] = Angelic Robe Level 3
    • Set Angelic_Robe[3] = Angelic Robe Level 4
    • -------- Snip 16 lines --------

• Angelic Robie
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Acquires an item
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Wait 0.01 seconds
    • For each (Integer A) from 0 to 19, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • -------- Use a loop to find out which item it was --------
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Angelic_Robe[(Integer A)]
          • Then - Actions
            • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the overhead of (Buying unit) using Abilities\Spells\Other\Charm\CharmTarget.mdl
            • Item - Remove (Item carried by (Hero manipulating item) of type Angelic_Robe[(Integer A)])
            • Hero - Create Angelic_Robe[((Integer A) + 1)] and give it to (Hero manipulating item)
            • Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)
          • Else - Actions
            • -------- This item wasn't it, continue with the loop --------

EDIT: Time for a little explanation:

The first trigger sets up an array of item types (Named Angelic_Robe).

The second trigger uses a loop to see which item-type it was. It then gives it the item one level ahead, or one item-type in front of the old one.

EDIT2: Oh yeah, and I forgot about a memory leak. Fixed now.

 

[donut3.5]

The only problem with destroying special effects once they are made is that if they don't have a death animation, nothing will show.
A few of my favorites are:
Avatar of Vengeance (makes a cool purple poof)
Tomes (makes a cartoonish poof)
Transmute (makes a gold fountain with coins and such)
Can't think of any others, might get back to that.
Good idea though, pres.
--donut3.5--

 

[MindWorX]

Just a small side note, your trigger doesn't work, try using it with only a single robe.