Mass Stasis

[Null]

Mass Stasis
My lich needs a spell which pauses and makes invulnerable a group of units in a X radius for Y seconds.
This needs to work with an unlimited number of liches. PLEASE help me.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

Your first challenge will be to figure out how to pause and invuln units in a way that stacks and respects multiple timers

I recently wrote some code like this so it's pretty fresh in my mind

Take a look at

Reference counting - Wikipedia

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Readers–writer lock - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

To get your brain going. Let me know if you need some more hints

 

[Uncle]

Mass Stasis
My lich needs a spell which pauses and makes invulnerable a group of units in a X radius for Y seconds.
This needs to work with an unlimited number of liches. PLEASE help me.

You could use basic indexing techniques like Unit Indexing. See the attached map.

You'll find that Unit Indexing and Dynamic Indexing are almost always going to be the solution to your custom GUI spells. These should be your starting point whenever you're unsure of what to do.

Notes:
1) Pausing/Unpausing has no concept of "instances". It's easy for outside triggers to interfere and Unpause a unit early. You would need to implement a system that tracks the number of Pauses on a unit, like a counter -> +1 Pause, -1 Pause, to have full control over this function.
2) The same is true for Setting the animation speed of a unit. You would need to implement some kind of system that returns a unit back to it's intended speed (similar idea as above).
3) The Unit Indexer used in the attached map will recycle unused custom values. This shouldn't be an issue for a spell like this but it's something to take into consideration if you use the technique elsewhere.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Pausing/Unpausing has no concept of "instances". It's easy for outside triggers to interfere and Unpause a unit early.

native BlzPauseUnitEx takes unit whichUnit, boolean flag returns nothing

:emote_grin:

 

[Uncle]

native BlzPauseUnitEx takes unit whichUnit, boolean flag returns nothing

:emote_grin:

Yeah, I thought about stunning the targets as well, but when I think of a stasis effect I think it's the rare case where you may actually want to Pause the units, buffs and timers included.

 

[Pyrogasm]

That... actually performs a stun instead of a pause??

 

[Uncle]

That... actually performs a stun instead of a pause??

Mechanically it's an instant stun without the need for a buff. It's just poorly named as usual.