Unit Projectile Art

[Mallaboro]

Is there any way to have a units projectile attack go into the attacking unit, rather than away from it?

So like, rather than an archer fire an arrow at a target, the target fires the arrow at the archer, but the archer still performs the attack and the target still loses health.

 

[Maker]

Use the event A unit is attacked. Create a dummy unit at the position of the target, and order it to attack the triggering unit. Store the dummy and use it again durin the next attack for that unit.

Set the model for the unit's arrow to none, and set the dummy's damage to 0.

 

[Mallaboro]

Ah yes. It didn't occur to me to use a dummy for the projectile. Thanks.

 

[Maker]

You're welcome. I forgot to add that setting unit's attack type to none allows it to attack, but causes it to deal 0 damage.

 

[Garfield1337]

There's a better way,in my opinion. Go to object editor and select your archer,find fields:
Art - Projectile Launch - X
Art - Projectile Launch - Y
Art - Projectile Launch - Z
and experiment with those. You will most probably need to set X and Z to 0 and Y to around double the range of your unit or more.

EDIT: Uh..i was wrong,you can't achieve the same effect with this since you can't change impact X/Y D:

 

[Weep]

Is there any way to have a units projectile attack go into the attacking unit, rather than away from it?

If the target has mana, you could use an Orb of Slow with Absorb Mana as its spell.

Alternately, play around with the effects and buffs of Spider Attack, the Cryptfiend's ability that makes its attack linger at the target and then return.

Otherwise, trigger it.