Stopping spells from damaging friendly units in an AoE group

[Mallaboro]

So here's my spell. I'm trying to get this to not damage the casting unit.

• Black Mage Meteor
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Meteor
  • Actions
    • Set TargetLoc = (Target point of ability being cast)
    • Sound - Play GlueScreenMeteorLaunch3 <gen> at 100.00% volume, located at TargetLoc with Z offset 0.00
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect at TargetLoc using war3mapImported\ChaosMeteorV3.mdx
    • Wait 2.00 seconds
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within 225.00 of TargetLoc matching ((((Matching unit) is A structure) Equal to False) and ((((Matching unit) is alive) Equal to True) and (((Matching unit) belongs to an enemy of (Owner of (Triggering unit))) Equal to True)))) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Unit - Cause (Triggering unit) to damage circular area after 0.00 seconds of radius 225.00 at TargetLoc, dealing ((Real((Intelligence of (Triggering unit) (Include bonuses)))) x 5.00) damage of attack type Spells and damage type Divine
        • Sound - Play GlueScreenMeteorHit3 <gen> at 100.00% volume, located at TargetLoc with Z offset 0.00
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within 225.00 of TargetLoc matching ((((Matching unit) is A structure) Equal to False) and ((((Matching unit) is alive) Equal to True) and (((Matching unit) belongs to an enemy of (Owner of (Triggering unit))) Equal to True)))) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Casting Dummy / knockback for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) at TargetLoc facing Default building facing degrees
        • Unit - Add Knockback to (Last created unit)
        • Unit - Set level of Knockback for (Last created unit) to 1
        • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Human Mountain King - Storm Bolt (Picked unit)
        • Unit - Add a 3.00 second Generic expiration timer to (Last created unit)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_TargetLoc)

 

[Pharaoh_]

You need to use "Cause (Triggering unit) to damage (Picked unit)", to make it actually work properly. Circular area damages everything.

 

[Mallaboro]

Ah, thanks once again, Pharaoh_. *bows*
Your reputation precedes you.

 

[Bribe]

Thank goodness SC2 editor comes out soon, right? The new "GUI" will be tons more accessible to modifications.

 

[Berb]

I'm more interested on what features they're going to improve from WarCraft III. If they finish up the implementation of trackables that would be cool, as well as fixing things that desync the game. Also functions for stuff like GetHost that doesn't involve an unnecessary wait.

Pretty much just a bigger, more stable API is all I ask

 

[Bribe]

If waits were perfectly timed like you would THINK they would be, then 99% of Hashtable-dependent triggers could be replaced by simple local variables.

 

[Berb]

Yea, but typically you can't simply "freeze" a thread. Timers are typically necessary in all coding languages, no?

 

[Bribe]

Sadly, I only have experience in CSS, HTML and JASS, so I haven't anything to cross-reference.

The least they could do is make a way to pass a local variable to a timer-function like call TimerStart (t, 0.36, NextFunction(x,y))

 

[Berb]

That part I can't argue.