Lightning Spells by Roflcoptor v1.3d

[Moderator]

11:46, 2nd Mar 2010
TriggerHappy:

Not too much eye candy in the spells but they were decent and the coding looked fine.

 

[Roflcoptor]

Btw it contains a indexrecycle, so it will only bug if there 8190 ACTIVE spells.
The problem with the "Normal" indexing system is, that it counts up everytime a spell is cast and only resets if there is no active instance, so I implemented this recycle

 

[calex3]

nice .....only thing is that you don't have documentation

 

[Roflcoptor]

K i'll add that

 

[calex3]

i think that spell is little too big( spell on screenshot)

 

[Anachron]

I am writing my comments inside my code and above the scope, so its enough posting the code, because everything is explained inside. You should also do that.

Beside that, you can never have enoough lightning packs!

Weee...

 

[Roflcoptor]

Hmm ya it's kinda big

But should I add things like:
-more configurability
-ehmmm other things
-more spells

 

[Anachron]

I think the lightnings are to big for mho, but I guess thats something you can change. Make a passive chain lightning!

 

[Roflcoptor]

Make a passive chain lightning!

Hmmmmm Passive Chain Lightning

First click link ;)

Or shall I make a better one?

K when I get to overcome my laziness, I'll add condigurability, so you can easily change the field's size.

I thought about making it instant cast(like warstomp)

What do you think of thad?

 

[Anachron]

Hmmmmm Passive Chain Lightning

First click link ;)

Or shall I make a better one?

K when I get to overcome my laziness, I'll add condigurability, so you can easily change the field's size.

I thought about making it instant cast(like warstomp)

What do you think of thad?

It should have to be a 1:1 copy, I just thought you can make a chain of lightning combinied with Purge, and which will last the less as more units it will hit. Isn't that a cool idea? Additionally, if the purged unit attacks, the buff will disappear and deal damage to the target.

 

[Yearight]

I don't really like them because it seem one of them is a channeling thunderclap and the other is just some lightning strike with some ground effects. And I think adding ground effects which doesn't really do anything is bad. And the tooltip doesn't say what the spells does.

 

[Roflcoptor]

I don't really like them because it seem one of them is a channeling thunderclap and the other is just some lightning strike with some ground effects. And I think adding ground effects which doesn't really do anything is bad. And the tooltip doesn't say what the spells does.

Uuuuhm did you look at the triggering?
And what youi mean with adding ground effects?

And yeah I forgot to add spell description

 

[Yearight]

No I didn't, I rarely do. But once I looked you made it much more complicated than necessary, you could have done the storm thing with a location and 2 dumies each second. And the other one is like a lightning strike with a big area..

 

[Anachron]

Uuuuhm did you look at the triggering?
And what youi mean with adding ground effects?

And yeah I forgot to add spell description

Have you read this?

 

[Roflcoptor]

Well @ Yeahright, you probably mean I could spwan a dummy unit every 2 sec with forked lightning.

This would cause several problems:
-The dummy unit deals the damage, not the caster, which could be relevant for other things, for example a damage reflect.
-The lightning color is adjustable.

And I still don't get, what you mean with lightning strike. I have never seen such a spell before....

@Anachron I only responded to yearight

EDIT:
@Yearight: An additional thing is that it
a) hits every unit in the AoE
b) hits a a configurable amount of random enemies in the AoE and
c) hits one random unit in the AoE

 

[Palaslayer]

well, yeahright, as far as i know your triggering is not evenly as superior as roflcoptors but much worse.
i would read the code before posting things like: 'i do not like it because i do not like it'
your opinion isnt very contructive, dont you think?
normally, i would not say anything, but this is kinda audacious...


ok, enough complaints, nice spells.
still, you should change the things i told you.

 

[Yearight]

Palaslayer jugde for yourself... and I stated my opinion and said that the I didn't like all the effects in the lightning thing. And how much worse, please give me a good example and do not say things because you like him better than me. We all have the freedom to state our opinion and I stated mine and didn't rate it btw. Something like 3.75/5 or 4/5.

And again does he need or ask for you to "protect" him all the time? You could reduce his chances of making his spells better if you offend all critique.

 

[Roflcoptor]

No I don't

I can protect myself quite good, I think he's just upset by what you write.

And i still don't get, what you problem is, the spells are both unique.....

so you judge a spell just because of a certain SFX?

And you say it's a channeling Thunder Clap.... That's total nonsense.... Neither is it cahhneling nor has it anything in common except the sfx and that it is an AoE spell.....

So I think palaslayer just wants to stop you from talking, well let's say incorrect things....

Btw SFX'es are easily chagneable.....

 

[Palaslayer]

well, i did not 'protect' him because it is not necessary. normaly i just dont get when you state such unnecessary things in a spell thread, while in this i did because coptor wanted me to look at his spellpack....

 

[Yearight]

so you judge a spell just because of a certain SFX? Yes infact I do. And I'm sorry I didn't really know what the spells did :s no tooltip. And palaslayer try to mind your own business.

Edit:
And I think you underrestimate my triggering.

 

[Roflcoptor]

Yup now I added tooltip just for you

Check them and judge spell again^^

 

[xDeathKnightx]

Nice.

 

[Deuterium]

Ok, I didn't fully read the triggers, but some obvious stuff:
You know how you damage 4 units with extra damage, and one with more extra, well, what if the random unit to do 100 damage is the same as that that already got 75? So unless it's intentional, you need yo use a Debug group (you know how to do it, add the 4 units damaged to that group, and then pick a random one which isn't in it).

Also, your preload leaks, and you're using one preload for two spell, separate one for each. And create the dummies as neutral in the preload, and also preload special effects.

As for my opinion on my spells, I don't see anything special in them... but I must say, good job!

 

[Roflcoptor]

Well you're right with the preload actually I was just trying to fix a bug with it.
I don't actually need the dummies to cast the spell it is enough if I add it right?

Funny that Leak_Point leaks isn't it? ;P Simply forgot removing this one.

Yeah about the damage that was a thing I wanted to know, if I should change this, but I thought if ppl liked it leave it like this^^

EDIT: Fixing

 

[Deuterium]

just create dummy, add ability (to whatever level) and remove dummy, simple.

And about the damage thing, I'm not sure how people would like it...

 

[Roflcoptor]

Changes made

EDIT:

It should have to be a 1:1 copy, I just thought you can make a chain of lightning combinied with Purge, and which will last the less as more units it will hit. Isn't that a cool idea? Additionally, if the purged unit attacks, the buff will disappear and deal damage to the target.

Hm should I make a custom purge aswell then?

And the problem with the custom purge would be, that it would most likely bug, if the unit's MS gets modified while it has custom purge on it. But w/o custom purge I probably couldn't make all the nice effects.

 

[Jaijaibinx]

I think its awesome (but thats just an oppinion xD)

 

[Yearight]

Oh yea forgot to rate again. It i would be something like 4.25/5, but you should I never rate anything directly.

 

[Roflcoptor]

Is there a "know" missing btween "should" and "I" ;P

Dont get me wrong

thanks for your rating

 

[Panda]

Nice work man.

 

[Swift9001]

Probably I just copied it wrong, but my dummy doesn't seem to move. I mean, it just sits where I casted it and shoots the lightning but the lightning on my hero also shoots lightning. So, I mean, my hero cssts the spell, the passive lightning (thunder storm) is on her and moves around where she goes, but another copy of the thunder storm just sits there and shoots lightning and doesn't move.

 

[laserdemon]

well but how to import this spell?