Strength converted to armour.

[Razosh]

Hello I have a problem I want to make a passive ability for my hero so that 10% of its strength becomes armour. (So if he has 20 strength he'll gain 2 armour.) And I want this permanent ability to constantly update so say the hero gain strength from leveling up or gaining item bonuses I want the amount of armor to increase.

 

[nedio95]

Make trigger with event is "Evry 1 second of game time"
Youd need to store the heroes which have the ability under variables or add them to unit group
and read this You could ignore the last post

 

[Spartipilo]

Abilities with more than 4 levels takes much more map space and requires more loading. Be aware of that.

 

[Razosh]

No the spell only has one level.

 

[Spartipilo]

Armor can't be modified with triggers. Just with abilities. You would have to create an ability wich gives armor and make it add 0.2 per level. And periodically set level of the ability = strength.

 

[Razosh]

Hmm if it's impossible I can understand why I've had such troubles.

 

[Spartipilo]

If you don't use Agility for Speed or Attack damage, you could manipulate agility to handle the armor. (I never tough about this... seems like an amazing solution).

 

[Razosh]

Well sadly I wanted strenth to give armour since strength is the heroes main ability and he's a tank I will have to think of another way to solve the armour problem.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Make trigger with event is "Evry 1 second of game time"

Stupid idea as it creates unnescescary script overhead.

Rather only update it on events that change the heroe's strength.

Assuming the item ability level bug does not work with armor item abilities...

You need to make many different armor abilities that are powers of two. To support +127 to -128 units of armor that would need 8 abilities. You then add and remove the abilities as appropiate in a similar way to the binary number for the number of units you want to add to the unit above its base.

As the unit size is 0.2, 8 abilities will give you about +/- 25 armor. As you will only be adding armor in this case you can forgo the negative armor (unsigned) and thus have a range of 51 armor. Coincidentally that would give you support for up to 255 strength. More abilities could be used, such as 16, for larger ranges.

 

[nedio95]

It was the first thing popped in my head, but yes it is stupid.