[General] Target Point of 'Unit Finishes casting an Ability'

[MN Lahmar]

Hello guys,

Is there a way to detect the target point of the ability based of the event 'Unit Finishes casting an Ability'?

This doesn't work:

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Set TempPoint = (Target point of ability being cast)

The reason why i need this, cuz i'm using the 'Flamestrike' ability and it requires some casting time.


Thank you.

 

[Volsungh]

Are you looking for the target point during the green area, or during the fire pillars ?
Because if you are looking for the green area, you can't use 'finishes casting' since the spell is not finished casting yet, due to cast delay.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Starts Effect doesn’t work for this? You could just cache the point and store it in a variable or hashtable.

 

[Cespie]

Hello guys,

Is there a way to detect the target point of the ability based of the event 'Unit Finishes casting an Ability'?

This doesn't work:

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Set TempPoint = (Target point of ability being cast)

The reason why i need this, cuz i'm using the 'Flamestrike' ability and it requires some casting time.


Thank you.

Admittedly, I have no idea how Flamestrike acts with "begins the effect of", but locations are effectively lost once a spell finishes casting.
What you can do, is have a hashtable of units casting flamestrike, and then save the location of the most recent "begins casting" flamestrike target saved as a point, using the casting unit as the key. Remember to clean previous points from the memory before assigning a new one.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Since by the time the "starts the effect of" occurs the spell can't be cancelled you don't need a hashtable and can do it the simple GUI way:

• Set CounterA = CounterA + 1
• Set FSPoint[CounterA] = (Target point of spell being cast)
• Wait APPROPRIATE DURATION game-time seconds
• Set CounterB = CounterB+1
• -------- do stuff with FSPoint[CounterB] --------
• call RemoveLocation(udg_FSPoint[udg_CounterB]
• If (All conditions are true) then do (Then actions) else do (Else actions)
  • If - Conditions
    • CounterA equal to CounterB
  • Then - Actions
    • Set CounterA = 0
    • Set CounterB = 0
  • Else - Actions

 

[Spacebuns]

Hello guys,

Is there a way to detect the target point of the ability based of the event 'Unit Finishes casting an Ability'?

This doesn't work:

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Set TempPoint = (Target point of ability being cast)

The reason why i need this, cuz i'm using the 'Flamestrike' ability and it requires some casting time.


Thank you.

Flame Strike can use the event "Unit starts the effect of an ability".

 

[MN Lahmar]

Thanks everyone.