Unable to die

[Paulus]

Dear hivers,

I want to make a cinematic when a unit is about to die. In the cinematic they do something. Just like in the warcraft series.
The problem is, if i want to use a trigger for it i use the event:
"Unit has less then 200hp". Because then it is out of reach for spells that do 199 dmg. But this leaves the unit with to much hp to feel defeated.
Is there a way that a life of a unit doesn't go below 1?
Or are there other ways of triggering?

Thx

 

[Dr Super Good]

Damage absorption system. Detect fatal damage (since the event fires before damage is dealt so if current life - damage is less than 0.405 (some funny constant WC3 uses for death) then the unit will die and you can work on mitigation. Since it triggers a cinematic where health bars are invisible simply re-heal it to full life and do not care about that fraction of health it loses when damage is actually applied.

 

[Vinz]

However there might be abilities that deal more damage than max hp, it is safe to mitigate the damage instead.

 

[Dr Super Good]

However there might be abilities that deal more damage than max hp

You can give the unit huge amounts of health temporarily to mitigate the damage.

 

[Vinz]

Or use the default specific unit damage detection, then add Invulnerability like Blizzard does.

 

[Paulus]

Thx +rep

 

[Vinz]

No problem, happy modding.