Vae Victis v1.5

[Moderator]

11:12, 2nd Mar 2010
TriggerHappy:

Coding seemed fine and the effect was decent. Good tooltip too.

 

[Misha]

sweet C:
although.. can you rework it to be for Human Arthas with sword?

we had a lill misunderstanding there ^_^;;

 

[StaberFire]

It is. I made them turn red during animation lol. I could remove that if you want, I just thought the spell needed a little flavour.

 

[Misha]

don't turn him red XD
just make some blood effect at sword

 

[StaberFire]

Sorry for the wait, I had a small complication.

But it's updated now.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Why the hell are you using static array indexes?
Much rather make dedicated variables as they are faster and more efficent than static array indexes.

I would like to remind you array indexies are ment for use mathimatically for some form of variable data retrevial. Retreving them in a static or constant manner completly kills the point of using an array, and in that case you should default to non array variables (which retain the functionalty in a more efficent way).

 

[StaberFire]

Oh man. I was afraid someone was gonna bust me for something I have no clue I did.

I literally just took a step up from using Waits and having absolutely no MUI periodic spells... so I have no clue what a static array index is or what dedicated variables are, sorry. I just followed the MUI section in Deuterium's Essentials Tutorial, not to put blame on him.

 

[Misha]

go for it friend. learn more. ^^

EDIT: btw... which anim is he usin' for the spell?

 

[StaberFire]

Either attack 1 or attack 2. Same rarities apply as just attacking. I tried to get it to be only attack 2 but I forget how rarities work when triggering animation. I'll fix that up for you tomorrow when I have more energy.

 

[Misha]

okay C:

btw.. if that red fog around arthas was an effect, I'd want it back, just without him turning red Cx

 

[Deuterium]

The thing DSG mentioned was my fault... sorry. Yet I updated my tutorial to correct that.

@ StaberFire:
To fix the issue DSG mentioned, you know how we used Index[1] and Index[2] and Index[3]? Well that works and has no bugs... so you don't really need to change it.

But if you want more efficiency, instead of using the arrayed variable Index, make 3 separate non-arrayed variables: Index[1] becomes Index1, Index[2] becomes Index2, Index[3] becomes Index3...

As simple as that

Sorry again

 

[Misha]

hmm.. saw the spell ingame and i think 3 levels should be good. dunno why you people put four levels Oo

and the rate/amount of mana/life sapping should be greater at start, and proceed to be greater
maybe just adding one more "sap" with each level to the spell?

 

[Roflcoptor]

hmm.. saw the spell ingame and i think 3 levels should be good. dunno why you people put four levels Oo

and the rate/amount of mana/life sapping should be greater at start, and proceed to be greater
maybe just adding one more "sap" with each level to the spell?

WHy they have 4 levels?

DotA

Spells sound a bit overpowered 40% over 3 sec Oo

 

[Misha]

WHy they have 4 levels?

DotA

Spells sound a bit overpowered 40% over 3 sec Oo

well i do need a bit spicier spell for my Bas Celik campaign.

 

[StaberFire]

Thanks Deuterium, I'll update the spell right away. Misha that effect is still there, it's just the Vampiric Potion caster effect.

And I think I know what you mean by making it more powerful, but just to be clear:

You want it to start at a greater % and instead of adding % per level, you want to add another second to sap per level?

EDIT: And I didn't put four level because of DotA, lol, I have a hero template map that I use to make hero ideas/spells and I just happen to use four levels because it's more... dynamic.

 

[Cheezeman]

Could you post the code in the info?
It really helps

 

[StaberFire]

Sure, I will in the next update, which should be soon.

EDIT: Updated, Misha I hope the sapping effect is what you asked for. If not I could always just change it again. =P

 

[Misha]

yeah, 3 levels are just fine.

You want it to start at a greater % and instead of adding % per level, you want to add another second to sap per level?

yes. pretty much. that way it looks more like the Vae Victis of Kain, which kills the unit.

and try to figure a way to use just an attack where we swings sword from above.

 

[VoidLordXtreme]

cool spell! i really like it... maybe i will use it for my map.!

+rep for u both (for the idea and for the triggering .. lol)

 

[Misha]

any progress on the spell?

 

[StaberFire]

Well I've been searching and searching but I can't seem to find the correct combination of strings to play a specific attack animation. Maybe you could edit your model to change "attack - 1" to "attack slam" or something, then just use "attack - 2" as "attack - 1".

 

[Misha]

maybe Deuterium can help again.

 

[StaberFire]

Alrighty Misha, I dedicated an afternoon and finally got it squared away. =P

He will only play Attack - 2 animation now.

 

[Deuterium]

What did you do so that it attacks only animation 2? (Too lazy to re-download )

 

[StaberFire]

call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(unit, #)

Something like that.

 

[Trinin]

Stolen

Stolen from builders and fighters 7.0 , undead vampire lord hero , spell vae victis , and removed the sound when kain said vaaaaaaaaae victus , anyways this was used in game blood omen by Kain

 

[Dr Super Good]

I highly doubt it is stolen unless the map was open source.