[Trigger] System Needed

[Jaijaibinx]

Hey I need a system for my project, will + rep if you can make it for me.

Basically, its a custom cooldown system using a multiboard and floating text.

When an ability is cast (all abilities in my project are custom), this spell begins to cooldown for X amount of time. This time needs to be shown in a multiboard, which also orders all the cooldowns it is currently showing. (As more than one spell can be cooling down at once). The order should be the least amount of time remaining at the top of the multiboard and the longest cooldown remaining at the bottom. When a cooldown finishes it should be removed from the multiboard and all other cooldowns re-ordered. Finally, There should also be a floating text above the caster that shows the time remaining of the cooldown that has least time remaining. And when that cooldown finishes it should show the next in order, and so on.

Spell Name: | Cooldown Time Remaining (sec)
The W spell: | 5
The M Spell: | 8

I do not expect this system to be made for me out of just good will, (as few people will do that). Therefore I will award whatever price you deem suitable, even if I have to spread rep around.

 

[Maker]

Fine, I'll give it a go.

EDIT: It's shaping up quite nicely.

 

[Starquizer]

There is a slight -or may not be slight- problem with making your system; there is only one native function related to spell cooldown

native UnitResetCooldown takes unit whichUnit returns nothing

which means that this system will require some creativity.

The simplest way -but long if you have many spells in your system- is that you can store each ability cooldown time in an array real variable, but I don't think this could be effective.

 

[Maker]

No troubles so far. This should be finished tomorrow, since I don't have much time to work on it today, only an hour or two. Already got the cooldowns running and getting sorted from lowest to highest in the multiboard

 

[Jaijaibinx]

I would like to thank you both in advance and you can have + rep for attempting lol, get another 2 when ur done
I don't mind how it works so long as it works well lol. I would prefer GUI but Jass is acceptable so long as I am told how to use and edit xD

 

[Cokemonkey11]

I'm attempting it too, it won't be done as fast as Makers is, but if you like it, you like it

 

[Jaijaibinx]

I don't care how many are submitted, the one i use will get credits in the project, but all systems made will get + rep

Edit: Just wondering if anyone is nearing finish yet coz i need it sorta soon.

 

[Maker]

How soon is "sorta soon"? =)

My system is almost finished. The floating text works 100% correctly. The multiboard shows spell names and cooldowns. Spell cooldowns get sorted from lowest to highest in the multiboard, and if the cooldown reaches 0, it gets removed from the list and every other spell that is under cooldown get shifted higher in the list.

I have three heroes in the map, and everyone is using only one spell currently. It shouldn't be too difficult to expand.

How many spells in total do you have in your map? Also, can there be two of the same hero/spell in the map? I'm thinking of using colour codes with the spell names. How do you like to format the floating text and the multiboard time text? Show integers or reals with decimals?

 

[Jaijaibinx]

I'd like it formatted as intefers please.
There are a 12 spells
Only one hero as its a single player campaign
Don't worry about colour codes lol
sounds like its all going good, in fact what have you still go to do anyway?
Sorta soon is just as soon as possible lol, coz i need this system to begin working on the res of my project.
+Rep

 

[Maker]

Only one hero? Ahaha!

I though it was a multiplayer map for some reason. This makes it all the more easier. I wish I had asked that question before. Now I now that I don't have to keep track on who casts the spell and on who to spawn the floating text. I'll remove those parts from the triggers, since they're unnecessary

Not much to do anymore really, I'll add some comments to make customizing it easier.

Do you want to resize the multiboard to whatever number of spells there are, or do you want to keep it at full size at all times, that means 13 rows high? I think it might look silly if the multiboard keeps resizing.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

Damn I did the same thing jaijaibinx did. My mb sys is set up for 12 players and an unlimited amount of abilities.

Not sure what I did wrong but now my system crashes wc3. Not good lol.

Edit: Nevermind lol now it works perfect that I fixed the crash.

My system doesn't order the stuff by time like his does, but it is quite simple and modular. Let me know if you can't figure out how to change something to suit your needs.

http://filesmelt.com/Filehosting2/downloader.php?file=mbSystem001.w3x

Edit edit: This requires jass helper (available in JNGP) as it's written in vJass, and runs off a simple struct stack with 1 private global timer, so it is very efficient. Hope you like.

 

[Deuterium]

This is a piece of cake actually... just needs a bit of manual co-ordination between the trigger editor and object editor

 

[Maker]

Mine is ready too. It's done with GUI, and should be easy to modify.

Here's what it looks like:

The cooldown window resizes to the number of spells that are under cooldown, there's the floating text and the cooldowns get sorted

 

[Deuterium]

Well done, needs some coloring (that would be made by the person who asked for i ) and it's good to go... if I had the energy I would have done it in vJass, but I'm too lazy xD

 

[Cokemonkey11]

This is a piece of cake actually... just needs a bit of manual co-ordination between the trigger editor and object editor

Yes, I handled this with 3 big arrays since I didn't know if he could use hashtables yet, and I try to stay away from GC.

 

[Jaijaibinx]

Sorry to all who did more work then they should have my fault (should have mentioned in first post). Thank you Thank you these all work and are all fantastic, I can modify from here as promised + rep to all

This is a piece of cake actually... just needs a bit of manual co-ordination between the trigger editor and object editor

Not sure if it really needs manual co ordination between the trigger editor and object editor, as all spells are custom, so no data is needed from object editor, or as I missing something..?

 

[Maker]

No worries mate. Glad to be of service. Doing things for others gives me inspiration for my own campaign :happy: