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The_Assbastards GUI Missile System

This bundle is marked as useful / simple. Simplicity is bliss, low effort and/or may contain minor bugs.
This system allows you to create spells that are more then just point and click. It allows you to create spells that fire missiles that can be aimed and dodged and when they collide with units they can heal/damage them and then cast any regular/triggered spell.

Keywords:
System, GUI, Missile, Shoot
Contents

Missile Spell System (Map)

Reviews
08:23, 15th Jun 2010 Hanky: I found some things that should be improved: - remove those DoNothing functions - the way how you are indexing is too inefficient, change that - your missile launcher loop don't need to be active all the time -...

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08:23, 15th Jun 2010
Hanky:
I found some things that should be improved:
- remove those DoNothing functions
- the way how you are indexing is too inefficient, change that
- your missile launcher loop don't need to be active all the time
- there's no need to loop through the whole array
- you should check the map boundarys for the missiles
- there's no real need to set the missile_registry array everytime to null

That's all I found for now. When you have fixed those points message me or some other spell moderator.
 
cons:
-uses "do nothing" (it actually does nothing so there is no need to use it....)
-missile is attackable by creeps
-uses custom values
-leaks locations(move unit to point with polar offset...)
-leaks groups
-only works for 98 units
-no height support
-no real angle support
-weird coding
-there already are a lot of better missile systems
-nondescriptive/wrong-written variable names
-no ingame screenshot
-unallowed crappy kind of indexing


pros:
+some leaks were removed
+has (bad) documentation


Good things:2
Bad things: 13

Rating: 2/13 -> 1/5 -> Rejected

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cons:
-uses "do nothing" (it actually does nothing so there is no need to use it....)

then theres also no need to not use it right? whatever i got rid of it

-missile is attackable by creeps

Easily fixed by simply making it invulnerable........

-uses custom values

Actually it doesnt, i gave each missile a custom value because i thought i was going to need it but i didnt, its removed.

-leaks locations(move unit to point with polar offset...)
-leaks groups

It destroys locations/groups after each use... if it is still leaking i have no idea how and its not lagging up my shitty laptop

-only works for 98 units

yes a minor setback, I never needed to use 100+ missiles at once tho and its easy to work around. the number could be increased by simply changing the Missile Creator trigger to start over the missile number from a larger number, i just felt comfortable with 100.

-no height support

I could see how this might limit some intense map makers usage but wc3 itself has barely any height support other then cosmetics

-no real angle support

please explain.. my angles were working fine for me

-weird coding

how is this a con exactly? too sketch?

-there already are a lot of better missile systems

yes but i thought this was a fairly simple one for someone trying to incorporate more basic missiles into their maps, i mean how much more complicated do you need it? I had a lot of fun using this in my maps and no problems.

-nondescriptive/wrong-written variable names

maybe im just lazy but I thought it was explained

-no ingame screenshot

Sorry, but I have no access to taking screenshots, i dont have much of a choice

-unallowed crappy kind of indexing

Please explain this im just too noobish to understand what this means



man you fellers are a hard lot to please
 
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