Mana of caster after cast

[SAUS]

I have a spell that is supposed to replenish all the mana of the caster, but it costs 450 mana to cast. When you cast the spell, all the mana comes back and then 450 mana is taken away for the spell. It is triggering on "starts the effect of an ability". "Finishes casting an ability" seems to fail if you cancel the caster's cast animation, so I don't want to use that. Any ideas?

In general, a way to find out something after a trigger has happened would be good. Another case with a similar problem is on damage detection. I don't know how I can do things after a unit has taken damage (perhaps a heal but only after damage). I feel like I read somewhere a way to do this, but I don't remember where or how it worked.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Use Finishes casting. That you can interrupt the caster's cast animation is a desirable effect in general. You want people to cancel spells after all.

For damage detection, use one of the existing libraries from Hive. There's one for every flavour, even GUI. It's a common problem with a common solution.

 

[SAUS]

I think with "Finishes casting" it doesn't run the trigger if you end the animation early (like if you cancel the ending of Crystal Maiden's spells in Dota). I can just use a timer to delay it or something, I was just wondering if there is a more elegant solution.

 

[EdgeOfChaos]

Don't know if you think this is more or less elegant, but you could create a dummy unit and make him cast a mana restoring ability that has a small delay.

 

[SAUS]

That could work as well. I think I'd just go with a timer over that, though.

 

[Ceday]

I recently had this exact same problem, unit finishes casting event doesn't working for the reason you mentioned.Easiest way seems a 0.00 seconds timer or wait.(I used wait because it didn't need to be precise)

 

[SAUS]

I used a 0 second timer. It works perfectly, so I'm happy with it. Thanks for the help, everyone.