Showing a Casting-bar

[JakeCake]

I like to do abilities mostly through triggers, but I have an idea that I believe will work a lot better by using the data-editor. << I AM very unskilled with the data-editor, so be gentle >>

What I need to do, is to create a casting bar whenever I have a unit is casting an ability, just like the Battlecruiser's yamato-cannon, just without any damage or effects, maybe, when it finishes, send an input to the triggers. This casting-time-actor or whatever it is should be called through triggers.

Would be awesome if anyone could point me towards a tutorial, or explain me anything about this topic.

Cheers _jakeCake??

 

[mrzwach]

Uhh, are you using ingame UI or custom UI? You could have the unit use a dummy ability that has a moderate prepare time (enable "Show Progress" for the Prepare stage and add in a progress button for that), which would create a casting bar. Make sure that your unit has the Queue (1) ability though.

You can then use the event Ability Reaches Stage (or something like that). Set it to Prepare to fire it when a unit starts using the ability, and Cast for when a unit actually uses the ability.

 

[JakeCake]

Uhh, are you using ingame UI or custom UI? You could have the unit use a dummy ability that has a moderate prepare time (enable "Show Progress" for the Prepare stage and add in a progress button for that), which would create a casting bar. Make sure that your unit has the Queue (1) ability though.

You can then use the event Ability Reaches Stage (or something like that). Set it to Prepare to fire it when a unit starts using the ability, and Cast for when a unit actually uses the ability.

Sounds like a working solution, thank you! didn't expect an answer that fast, I will go try it out, but I doubt I'll get it to work the first time, so I might hit you back soon mrzwach

btw. I'm using custom UI

 

[JakeCake]

Cannot get it to work, a bit too advanced for me to figure out, but I'm beginning to learn the data-editor

 

[Statharas]

*scratch* Generic6 is when an ability's cast is complete. Generic1 must be when it starts. Create a bar using dialogs when the ability starts, and hide the dialog when it's done.