[Trigger] rotating damage area - need help

[IJJusion]

hi, and thanks for taking the time to read this.

im currently making a map which involves a boss at one point standing at one point and rotating, while he is doing that a beam is coming out and rotating with him.

now i can get that all to work fine by having an invisible wyvren circling the area and having the boss (and beam(beam being a peasant with the level up graphic put on its side)) face the invisible wyvren every .1/.25/.5 (matching the speed set for the circling wyvren) depending on how fast i want the beam rotating at the time.
~thanks to the great tutorials ive found on this site

the only thing i cant get working now is the damage..ive been trying multiple things but nothing seems to be working, i need something that will pick every unit between the invisible wyvren and the boss and deal damage to it every second or so the unit is in that region.

 

[FlaminG-HunteR]

You could have a dummy to cast a shockwave every .2 seconds from the caster of that beam thing?

 

[Hemlock]

You need to make a new trigger, and put it at initially off.
When the units casts the ability you turn the initially off trigger on.
The trigger itself is not too hard, you just want to let all the units that are between the casting unit and the wyvern to be dealt damage every second.

so periodic event:
Time - Every 1.00 seconds of game time

Calculate the distance between the two units, and put that in a real variable.
Set "your real variable" = (Distance between (Position of ("your casting unit")) and (Position of ("The wyvern unit")))

Then deal the damage to the units between the two units:
Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within "your real variable" of (Position of ("your casting unit"))) and do (Actions)
Loop - Actions
Unit - Set life of (picked unit) to ((Life of (picked unit)) - "the damage value")

And thats it.

 

[IJJusion]

ah awesome, thank you very much

 

[IJJusion]

hm, this may seem like a silly question

i was able to make the variable damageregion (variable type - real) and set it to the distance between the two, but i cant select that variable when doing the trigger "pick every unit in (region) and do actions" cause it only lets me pick region variables not "real" variables.

how do i fix that?

 

[l33t5up4h4x0r]

Hmm dosent doing that pick every unit between the casting unit and wyvern in a circle radius? So if they are 1000 range apart, then all units within 1000 range radius from the point in between them will be hit? And since u do dat for every turn of the beam, wouldnt that stack the damage to those unaafected but are part of the 1000 radius anyways?

Well for me try picking every unit in 100 range radius and deal damage to that circle. Then make multiple circles towards one unit, sorta like doing shockwave from scratch, which is useful if you dont have a set amount of damage (such as dmg=agix2)....anyways goodluck

 

[Hemlock]

IJJusion:
When you apply the action "Pick every unit in unit group and do multiple action" you click on the blue text that says "(Units in (playable map area))

A new window will open, now click on the field that says "Unit in region" next to the text function.

Scroll down and select the function "Units in range".

l33t5up4h4x0r:
It will pick all units within the range of the distance between the casting unit and the wyvern that surround the casting unit.

And since u do dat for every turn of the beam, wouldnt that stack the damage to those unaafected but are part of the 1000 radius anyways?

It doesn't stack damage, and as long as it in range it is effected, ones the unit gets out of the range, then its uneffected.

 

[IJJusion]

here are some early pictures of how it works, after using the trigger you gave me, it picks everyone near the boss rather then just those under the beam.
hopefully these pics will show you what im trying to get (just need damage at the front beam the trailing ones will be removed when i refine it)

 

[Hemlock]

Ohw wait, you only want to have the units damage that are in the Line between the hero and the wyvern?

 

[IJJusion]

yeah, sorry if i didnt make that clear before :<

 

[FlaminG-HunteR]

Then, obviously, the best thing to do is to do what I said before:

"You could have a dummy to cast a shockwave every .2 seconds from the caster of that beam thing?"

I did infact, know exactly what you wanted =/

 

[IJJusion]

yes thats what i was thinking too haha, thanks Flaming

 

[IJJusion]

ok, got it all working.

last thing though..anyone know if its possible to remove the ground from 'rippling' as the invisible shockwave goes over it?

 

[pandamanana]

I don't really have anything to contribute to this but damn was it funny ^_^ the simplest anwser is the best .... sounds kind of like a new episode of House

i have a question for yah, IJJusion, How did u make the Peasent with the model file of the level up animation on it's side?????? ^_^ nice job BTW

*EDIT* 8-] oooohhhhhhh

 

[IJJusion]

i have no idea how to do it
i imported a "dummy kamehameha" (from the kamehameha spell map) and it has the "Max pitch angle (degrees)" set to "-90" on the peasant. if you try to change it..it goes to "0" and if you type in "-90" it resets itself to "0" again.

 

[FlaminG-HunteR]

>ok, got it all working.

=)

>last thing though..anyone know if its possible to remove the ground from 'rippling' as the invisible shockwave goes over it?

No you can't. You can use the Carrion Swarm spell instead though. It gives the same effect but without the ground rippling.

 

[cyrus19283]

You can always use carrion swarm, breath of fire, breath of frost, or crushing wave for the dummy spell since they all do the same thing, damage in a straight line. I guess impale might even work. Hope that helps. BTW nice concept for a boss.