Parasite Spawn Without Death? help with wait.

[Jaina Proudless]

I am trying to make a spell like parasite which only deals initial damage instead of damage overtime and that spawns a unit after some time and not upon targeted units death.

I tried triggering the thing and it seemed like a simple trigger but I am having problems using the wait action. Everything works without waiting, but I need some time to pass before the unit spawns and basically every string after the wait action are ignored and never acted out.

Here's what I have so far and everything before wait is acted out no problem.

• Pregnancy
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Parasite
  • Actions
    • Sound - Play WardenDeath1 <gen> at 100.00% volume, attached to (Target unit of ability being cast)
    • Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage (Target unit of ability being cast), dealing 60.00 damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the overhead of (Target unit of ability being cast) using Objects\Spawnmodels\Human\HumanBlood\BloodElfSpellThiefBlood.mdl
    • Wait 6.00 seconds
    • Unit - Remove All buffs from (Target unit of ability being cast)
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the base of (Target unit of ability being cast) using Objects\Spawnmodels\Human\HumanLargeDeathExplode\HumanLargeDeathExplode.mdl
    • Unit - Create 1 Daemonic Whelp (food) for (Owner of (Casting unit)) at (Position of (Target unit of ability being cast)) facing Default building facing degrees

 

[sethmachine]

a spell like parasite which only deals initial damage instead of damage overtime and that spawns a unit after some time and not upon targeted units death.

When the parasite spawns a unit, it kills it?

So this custom parasite only deals X damage on cast, no damage over time, and after Y seconds it always kills the unit + creates the spawn?

I think your code will work if you use a few custom scripts, because it looks like calling "Target unit of ability being cast" doesn't work after using a wait (I believe it acts like a global variable).

Instead first store it in a variable of type unit , i.e.

custom script: set udg_target = Target unit of ability being cast

which should be stored before the wait.

Then it should work.

 

[IcemanBo]

Store casting unit and target unit into local variables.

Here is a tutorial with a chapter that shows you how to do work with locals: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...hen-using-triggers-gui-233242/#Section 2 Ch 1

Just say it if you still would have problems with correct implementation.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

When using the variable it works! Thanks for the replies guys!