Power Hook v1.3

[Moderator]

18:37, 22nd Dec 2009
TriggerHappy:

Review for Spell

The coding looked decent and I couldn't produce any bugs.

Status

Feel free to message me here if you have any issues with my review or if you have updated your resource and want it reviewed again.

Approved

 

[X-OMG-X]

Looks cool and doesnt seem to leak. Nice job.

 

[Axarion]

In the movie the hooked unit is ever behind the caster
(Maybe cause of pathing dunno) But please add more documentation. Anyhow a nice spell but not really new idea

 

[calex3]

Added more documentation

 

[Kingz]

Improvements:
Make a dummy unit, and make it be paused, so you can use your hero while the hook is flying away.

I can't belive people make spells like this but so little creativity deprives them of a much better thing

Make the dummy caster paused, and make the unit get hooked to the dummy caster, thus making the real caster able to move while the one really paused is the dummy one.

Also one more improvement is to reduce the loop triggers period to 0.03-0.02 making the hook look really better and the whole effect generaly better.

 

[calex3]

you mean pudge wars hook? .....
-reduced time..

 

[jms]

Nice Spell but Leaks : If You are casting the spell and you press " ESC " while the caster is paused, when he finishes the spell , he casts it again..

 

[baassee]

Nice Spell but Leaks : If You are casting the spell and you press " ESC " while the caster is paused, when he finishes the spell , he casts it again..

isn't that the in-game triggers that fucks it up?

 

[calex3]

It is not a leak -.-'
It is the Channel's(base ability) bug....Esc is just a help and it bugs with Channel....it Won't bug in game because in game you won't going to have Esc to Refresh...

EDITED SPELL:
Now dummy is created at 100 towards next to caster...so now no unit will be moved behind caster...

 

[Kingz]

It can be fixed the way i suggested, using a dummy caster.

Hope you implement it in the next version =)

 

[calex3]

I think that creating dummy 100 towards is much better? if you do this unit won't be moved behind the caster...
still you can't move caster but if you can looks weird ....hook looks like broken it is not following you..

 

[Kingz]

You can move pudge in dota after he casts his hook, try it and see for yourself if you don't belive me

 

[matej]

nice...

 

[calex3]

Ok i made like in dota....when hook finishes it's destination moving foward you will be unpaused....but if it hooks someone you will stay paused until it reaches to you..

 

[Kingz]

Remove invulnerability from the caster while paused, it is imbalanced.

 

[calex3]

Ok updated

 

[Gmeister]

It`s great, i like your spell...

Congratulation man... Fuck =D

 

[Guishiu]

Why do people try to copy Dota spells? If your spell is a variation of Dota's original that is fine. Perhaps someone will find it more useful in their map. Besides has anyone tried that League of Legends game? Its horrible

 

[Sorceress]

love it!

 

[light bolt30]

mine had no lightning effect??

 

[calex3]

it is changed version i think...new one has no lightning effects it is normal hook
change it in object editor unit named Effect change it's model if you want lightning effect back
EIDT: I'll try to make a meat hook like in Pudge wars.....soon hope so

 

[cookies4you]

i likes it. now we can show Ice Frog that we too, can make a decent hook system, and in GUI! its alot smoother than Ice Frog's hook. i like that. all his hook does is stand still and lacks motion and a standing animation.

 

[calex3]

approved yeah

 

[Dark_Dragon]

gj calex3!

very nice spell and coding! +rep.
5/5 and wish you all best in school! i am sure you are healthy as well

Greets!
~DD

 

[calex3]

Thanks man!

Yeah I pretty well my vacation just started today .....thanks for rating )
I'll start doing pudge wars hook today I got an idea

~Calex3_†

 

[NoMoreChallenge]

OMG Nice spell and looks smoother than old one! 5/5

 

[musk]

calex3 i have a question , I want to add Slow to the target Unit when PH finishes, Its possible??
If it is, where I have to modify the code?? :S

 

[calex3]

Do you have MSN messanger or any other messanger? ...I can explain easily there else if you don't have it then I'll post updated spell

 

[musk]

hey calex3 , thx =)

good hook =)!!

 

[Rmx]

This spell is so old, alot of people have done it, including me.

Try making it like pudge wars, it will be much awesome and challeging.

But still it's a nice spell in dota +REP

 

[DruM3asS]

ffs this is AWESOME is just like DotA hook! <3 it

 

[Adiktuz]

It is not a leak -.-'
It is the Channel's(base ability) bug....Esc is just a help and it bugs with Channel....it Won't bug in game because in game you won't going to have Esc to Refresh...

EDITED SPELL:
Now dummy is created at 100 towards next to caster...so now no unit will be moved behind caster...

I don't encounter bugs with ESC and channel, maybe you set the orderID to the same ID used by escape. I don't know if ESC has the same ID as cancel but cancel uses the OrderID "absorb".

 

[Kingz]

It bugs since you can reset the cooldown with ESC button, that is the only reason...

Since in any Normal map you won't have such an abuse it is fine.

 

[baassee]

isnt it better to mini stun the target, for a very minimum length cause what I've heard doesnt pause targets fuck up channeling units as they wont get interupted?

 

[Kingz]

It works as it is intended, and the bug baassee is talking about is that channeling spells can bug if the caster is paused, however this isn't channeling and can't be abused in normal conditions.

 

[baassee]

but if the target is channeling and get paused?

 

[Rodrigo96]

Man I think this spell has got a bug:
I have imported the triggers, the models. But when I use it this is what hapens:
A big harpy apears and my hero goes paused. And it never unpouses.
Pleassssssse check that out man.
Thanks

 

[Kingz]

You are doing something wrong then.

The spell is fine, you messed up while importing the stuff.

Try to import it again into some test map.

 

[calex3]

When you copy triggers raw code of unit like Effect dummy is changed so maybe in somewhere in the trigger where I used Unit- Create 1 Effect at loction... It is changed to Unit- Ceate 1 "YourUnitWithSameRawCode" at location )) ...
Already explained in the PM

 

[siegaeditor]

Hey thanks this spell is awsome I needed this +rep

 

[Shanghai]

dude i tested its not working can u pls tell me how to fix this. When i cast the hook i can move enemys buildings in AoS lol!

 

[baassee]

dude i tested its not working can u pls tell me how to fix this. When i cast the hook i can move enemys buildings in AoS lol!

add condition in the loop to prevent it

 

[Guderian]

Usefull indeed and easy to import

 

[Bond009]

nice work here.. he should make another version that is like a grappling hook that pulls the user to the target, would be very cool..

 

[mikagami]

any other bug or is it fine as dota's meat hook now?

 

[Klasus]

The spell is very good. There is only one problem that I have encountered. You used the Channel ability when creating the Hook ability. If I want to issue order a unit through a trigger to cast the ability, what ability order do I use?

 

[sarumanthecursed]

Is their any way to add a minimum firing range to this? so that you can't just use it to damage a unit that's a centimeter away from you.

 

[Virus-X]

This version better than Meat Hook v4.2 GUI
I was save my map, find 308 error.

 

[Oljin]

great spell! i used it in my moba game