Items Reduce Stats

[ArcanaForce0]

What is the best way to have an Item reduce the holder's movement speed by half? Is there a good way to do it in Object Editor, or would it have to be Triggers?

 

[PurgeandFire]

Triggers are the only way I think:

• ReduceMS
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Acquires an item
  • Conditions
    • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Kelen's Dagger of Escape
  • Actions
    • Unit - Set (Triggering unit) movement speed to ((Current movement speed of (Triggering unit)) / 2.00)

If you just want to do default movement speed then you can set it to default. That might be better in case the unit acquires the item while under a slow or something.

 

[Windu]

Or you can just make an item ability that gives movement speed bonus -0.5 in %.
I think that should do better.

In order to enter a negative value -> You have to allow negative values in the WE preferences. THen - Shift+Click the field you want to enter a negative and it works... mostly.

 

[ArcanaForce0]

@Windu: If I do it your way, which Item ability should I use to start with?

 

[Pharaoh_]

Either get "Item Speed Bonus Ability" or take a cripple-type ability and have a dummy cast it on the unit that picks the item.

 

[Undead0dd]

"Item Speed Bonus Ability"

Lets not make it more complicated. Stay with this. The Crippling Dummy is a bit more confusing.

 

[ArcanaForce0]

I think I'll do it PurgeandFire111's way...

• Pick Up EFlag
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Acquires an item
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • ((Owner of (Hero manipulating item)) is an ally of Player 6 (Orange)) Equal to True
        • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Orc Flag
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Set (Hero manipulating item) movement speed to ((Default movement speed of (Hero manipulating item)) / 2.00)
        • Trigger - Turn on Drop EFlag <gen>
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • ((Owner of (Hero manipulating item)) is an ally of Player 12 (Brown)) Equal to True
        • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Human Flag
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Set (Hero manipulating item) movement speed to ((Default movement speed of (Hero manipulating item)) / 2.00)
        • Trigger - Turn on Drop EFlag <gen>
      • Else - Actions

(Initially Off)

• Drop EFlag
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.02 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set _Bool_Local = False
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Playable map area) matching (((Matching unit) is A Hero) Equal to True)) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • ((Picked unit) has an item of type Human Flag) Equal to False
            • ((Picked unit) has an item of type Orc Flag) Equal to False
          • Then - Actions
            • Unit - Set (Picked unit) movement speed to (Default movement speed of (Picked unit))
          • Else - Actions
            • Set _Bool_Local = True
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • _Bool_Local Equal to True
      • Then - Actions
      • Else - Actions
        • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)

I believe this works just fine.

 

[Berb]

Rather than doing a periodic loop, you should use the event "Unit drops item" and check to see if the item is the flag. If the unit picks up the flag half its movement speed, if a unit drops the flag then reset it back to normal.

 

[Damage]

The unit group is also leaking.
Make sure to

• Custom script: call DestroyGroup(udg_<Your Group Variable>)

Where you set the group to a variable first, then destroy it after use.

However, if you do as Berbanog says and use the Unit Drops Item event, you won't need to do this.


Also, why use a Trigger Turn On/Off with a loop, when you can just Run the trigger?
From what I see, you turn a trigger on, which then runs its first loop, then turns itself off. Why not just tell your first trigger to simply run the other?