Negative effect Aura

[Xzalious]

Negative effect Aura and Triggers

I have a hero who's Aura i would like to decrease nearby units attack speed by a % when they're within the Aura's AoE but i have no idea how o set up a Negative aura although i have seen it done in other games which gives me hope.

If anyone can suggest or help out, that would be very helpful thanks.

 

[Silvenon]

You mean that the aura has a negative effect? That's easy, go to preferences, put a tick in the "allow negative values in the object editor" box and just put negative values in the data fields in object editor.

If you would want to change targets allowed too, changing an existing spell wouldn't work, you would have to create a new custom ability.

Hope I got your question right

 

[donut3.5]

You can also hold Shift and double-click to ignore the limits of any value.
The allow negative reals thing only works for a few fields.
--donut3.5--

 

[Xzalious]

Wow thanks Silvenon and Donut.

I have hit another brickwall. , when the hero learns a certain custom skill i want a variable that controls it's damage to be increased but whenever i go along the "A player owned by Player (2) blue learns a skill" i can't find a condition to determine it's my custom skill, theres no "Ability being learnt equal to Ice Shard".

Also, when i cast Ice Shard it runs a trigger that spawn a really really tiny black mortar team that shoots frost wyrm ice to make it look like a ball but the problem is that when it spawns the mortar team it doesn't spawn right in the middle of my hero it spawns next to it or near it so that when it fire my hero does the attack animation but the ice comes from just next to him and looks obscure. Is there any way to guarantee that the unit spawns right on top of my unit? Thanks.

 

[Just_Spectating]

its about orderID's so if you base it off warstomp then the order would be the orc Chieftain warstomp even if you named it like poopstomp.

 

[Xzalious]

Any ideas on how to spawn the mortar team directly on my hero? Thanks for your help so far.

 

[Just_Spectating]

make the collision size of your mortar team to 0

 

[donut3.5]

Give it movement type flying and 0 flying height. Also, don't use a small black mortar team, use the tree of life upgrade ability under the abilities section.
--donut3.5--

 

[Just_Spectating]

or download the dummy model from here because it also has an origin attachment point so that you can add effects to it.

 

[Xzalious]

The last thing i need help with would be the damage for the Ice shard spell, since now i got the positioning and the firing perfect. (Thanks heaps guys)

This is my current trigger but it only does the 1-2 damage from the mortar team and i'm puzzled.

• Events
  • Unit - A unit owned by player 1 red learns a skill
• Conditions
  • (Triggering unit) Equal to WaterHero
  • (Ability being cast) Equal to Ice Shard
• Actions
  • Unit - Create 1 IceshardDummy for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of AloreRgn <gen>) facing Default building facing degrees
  • Unit - Turn collision for (Last created unit) Off
  • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Attack Ground (Target point of ability being cast)
  • Wait 1.00 seconds
  • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game
  • Region - Center IceShardDamage <gen> on (Target point of ability being cast)
  • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in IceShardDamage <gen>) and do (Unit - Cause WaterHero to damage circular area after 0.05 seconds of radius (Max X of IceShardDamage <gen>) at (Center of IceShardDamage <gen>), dealing IceShardDamage damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal)

Oh and also is there any way i could determine the level of a spell through a trigger, my Enchanted arrows spell gives a frost bonus to damage but since i can't figure out how to get the level it just gives the level one dummy spell for each level.

 

[Silvenon]

There are some variables missing......WaterHero, IceShardDamage....

Shouldn't it be "starts the effect of an ability" instead of "learns a skill"?This trigger never fires because the condition will never be true, "Ability being cast" works only for "starts the effect"/"begins casting"/"finishes casting an ability".

So I suggest changing the event to "starts the effect of an ability", because that is probably what you want.

Oh and also is there any way i could determine the level of a spell through a trigger, my Enchanted arrows spell gives a frost bonus to damage but since i can't figure out how to get the level it just gives the level one dummy spell for each level.

Conditions -> Integer comparison -> Level of ability for unit.

 

[Xzalious]

I set the Event to "begins casting an ability" but it still doesn't work.

My variables are simple:

IceShardDamage(Region) = Region 001
IceShardDamage(Real) = 100
AloreRgn = Region 002
WaterHero = Nymph Hero 0001

Maybe i should change variable names. :s

Pretty much what i want to happen is just for 300 AoE around wherever the player targets, all units inside that AoE get hit for 100, 165 or 230 depending on level.

 

[Silvenon]

Better use "starts the effect of an ability".

Try inserting "display text" action to see if the trigger is even firing.

Otherwise, I have no idea what might be the problem.

 

[Xzalious]

This is my base ability now.

IceShard Trigger

• Events
  • Unit - A unit owned by player 1 red learns a skill
• Conditions
  • (Triggering unit) Equal to WaterHero
  • (Ability being cast) Equal to Ice Shard
• Actions
  • Region - Center IceShardDamage <gen> on (Target point of ability being cast)
  • Unit - Create 1 IceshardDummy for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of AloreRgn <gen>) facing Default building facing degrees
  • Unit - Turn collision for (Last created unit) Off
  • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Attack Ground (Target point of ability being cast)
  • Wait 0.30 seconds
  • Trigger - Run (ignoring conditions) IceShardDamage
  • Wait 0.70 seconds
  • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game

And i made a seperate trigger so i could get the timing right so the damage applies just as the effects hit.

IceShardDamage Trigger

• Events
  • A unit owned by Player 1 (Red) Begins casting an ability
• Conditions
  • (Number of units in (Units in (Playable map area)) Equal to 999
• Actions
  • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in IceShardDamage <gen>) and do (Unit - Cause WaterHero to damage circular area after 0.00 seconds of radius (Max X of IceShardDamage <gen>) at (Center of IceShardDamage <gen>), dealing IceShardDamage damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal)
  • Floating Text - Create floating text that reads (String(ISDamage, 1, 0)) above (Picked unit) with Z offest 0.00, using font size 10.00 (100%, 10%, 10%), and 0% transparency

The Variable ISDamage is determines by the level of Ice Shard.

IceShardLv Trigger

• Events
  • Unit - A unit owned by player 1 (Red) Learns a skill
• Conditions
  • (Learning Hero) Equal to WaterHero
  • (Learned Hero skill) Equal to Ice Shard
• Actions
  • If ((Level of Ice Shard for (Triggering unit)) Equal to 1) then do (Set ISDamage = 100.00) else do (Do nothing)
  • If ((Level of Ice Shard for (Triggering unit)) Equal to 2) then do (Set ISDamage = 165.00) else do (Do nothing)
  • If ((Level of Ice Shard for (Triggering unit)) Equal to 3) then do (Set ISDamage = 230.00) else do (Do nothing)

I have two questions:

A) My skill hits and show floating text equal to 230 damage so why does it kill Grunts with 700hp in one hit?

B) Is it possible to have the floating text say "230" instead of "230.00"?

 

[Silvenon]

A) My skill hits and show floating text equal to 230 damage so why does it kill Grunts with 700hp in one hit?

That's impossible because IceShard trigger doesn't fire at all, because you put "learns a skill" instead of "starts the effect of an ability" again ("target point of ability being cast" is "none", "ability being cast" condition is false all the time....).

B) Is it possible to have the floating text say "230" instead of "230.00"?

Yes, I think only stuff like Game - Display text show decimals.

My question is (again): why do you use "begins casting an ability"? The spell fires to early then, it should be like all the other spells.

 

[Xzalious]

Ok i redid my IceShard trigger:

IceShard Trigger

• Events
  • Unit - A unit owned by player 1 red starts the effects of an ability
• Conditions
  • (Triggering unit) Equal to WaterHero
  • (Ability being cast) Equal to Ice Shard
• Actions
  • Region - Center IceShardDamage <gen> on (Target point of ability being cast)
  • Unit - Create 1 IceshardDummy for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of AloreRgn <gen>) facing Default building facing degrees
  • Unit - Turn collision for (Last created unit) Off
  • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Attack Ground (Target point of ability being cast)
  • Wait 0.30 seconds
  • If InWater Equal to True then (Set ISDamage = (ISDamage + 100))
  • Trigger - Run (ignoring conditions) IceShardDamage
  • Wait 0.70 seconds
  • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game

It triggers but the grunt still dies in one hit, i can't remember how i got it to trigger before but it still one hits the grunt.

 

[Silvenon]

You never set the ISDamage back if you increase it by 100, that means every time InWater is true, ISDamage will increase by 100, meaning that in some point it may high value (which would result one-shot kill).