Lightning System v1.03

[Moderator]

15:07, 18th Oct 2012
Magtheridon96: Approved.
Nice wrapper.

 

[Adiktuz]

The test map is basically just a play-and-watch type of test map, though you could move the footman with the lightning attached between it and the lower right corner of the map and make the lightning pass through the other units to see one of the other features of the Lightning Utils... XD...

 

[Frotty]

How about adding a UnitNearLighting event/action ?

 

[DESTROYER123]

(Lols)
Looks perfectly perfect.







5/5

 

[Adiktuz]

@Frotty - I guess the user can already handle that using the enumUnits function of the Lightning Utils...

EDIT: reverted to 1.01... this method of handling events [system handles the checks to fire the correct actions] is less tedious for the user than making it run Blizzard-like [the user checks manually if his actions should fire]...

 

[Lambdadelta]

Interesting to see Jesus4Lyf's system still in use

 

[Adiktuz]

old

Updated!

Added global event handlers for the two event handlers... Global meaning event handlers that will fire for all lightnings... they are toggled via constant booleans and static ifs so that the system won't include them if they're not gonna be used...

EDIT: I will add a global event handler for Lightning creation so that you can fire a general event for all created lightnings...

UPDATE:

Added capability of adding any custom data to each instance (courtesy of Table)... I think it will bring lots of possibilities when coupled with the event handlers...

This possibility is of course already present before, but the user would then need to make his own variables [probably another struct too] and such but now the user only needs to toggle one boolean variable and he can freely add and retrieve any custom data that he wants each lightning to have...

before:

struct B
    real damage
    Lightning lig
    
    static method create takes blahblah returns B
        local thistype this = .allocate()
        set this.lig = Lightning.blahblah
        set this.damage = blahblah
    endmethod
endstruct

function boom takes nothing returns nothing
    call B.create(blahblah)
endfunction

now:

function boom takes nothing returns nothing
    local Lightning lig = Lightning.blahblah
    set lig.customData.real[StringHash("damage")] = blahblah
    //or even just    
    set lig.customData.real[0] = blahblah
    //too much lines still? then how about a one liner?
    set Lightning.blahblah.customData.real[0] = blahblah
    //note that the one-liner approach will only work if you will only attach one custom data
    //for 2 or more data, you will really need to save the Lightning to a variable first
endfunction

EDIT: I might add a function for hiding lightnings on the Utils lib... might...

 

[Spellbound]

So I don't really understand JASS or vJASS but I managed to get this to work, but I can't destroy the lightning in time. I stored the created lightning in a variable and destroyed it later in a different trigger as I don't understand how to use remove().

It stays in existence for like 3 seconds before being removed.

EDIT: Nvm, figured it out.

For those wondering how I did it, you can't use (last created lightning). Instead use an Integer variable to store the lightning, eg:

set udg_Beam[udg_ID] = Lightning.unitToUnit(udg_u1[udg_ID1],udg_u2[udg_ID2],0,60.0,false,0.0,"LEAS",0)

Then remove it afterwards with:

local Lightning beam = udg_Beam[udg_ID]
call beam.remove()

 

[Adiktuz]

it's a custom lightning so you can't use the default method to get it.