[Spell] Ward Cast Earthquake

[Harold Grey]

I'm trying to make an ability that produces brief earthquakes in an area, so I currently have a trigger that commands a ward unit (created via trigger) at the center of the area to cast earthquake on a random point within the area every so often:

• Events
  • Time - Every 1.5 seconds of game time
• Actions
  • SetPt = (Position of MeteorWard) offset by (Random real number between 0.0 and 450.0) toward (Random Angle) degrees
  • Unit - Order MeteorWard to Orc Far Seer - Earthquake TmpPt

I'm not sure why, but it seems not to be doing anything. I added floating text to show where the MeteorWard is, as well as the random points, and they show up as expected. I used a different spell, and it seems to work. Any ideas how to fix this?

 

[Nichilus]

I just tried to do the same by giving a modified earthquake to Shadow Hunter's Serpent Ward and then running this trigger:

• Test
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) skips a cinematic sequence
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order Serpent Ward (Level 1) 0000 <gen> to Orc Far Seer - Earthquake (Position of Farm 0003 <gen>)

This worked as intended, so I believe you have some other issue apart from the trigger.

• Give the earthquake to some basic unit like Footman - can he cast it?
• Ward unit is incorrectly set up (maybe it has turning rate and tries to slowly turn to various random points every 1.5 second?)

Try testing this the same way I did - instead of a trigger that fires every 1.5s, try to run this once by skipping cinematic

 

[Uncle]

You're referencing Pt and TmpPt, two different variables.

Also, Earthquake is channeling, so that Dummy unit could only have one active at a time. You'd need a new Dummy unit per active Earthquake.

 

[Harold Grey]

I finally got a chance to go back and find what my issue was. The "Pt" vs "TmpPt" was a typo here, but funny enough, the actual issue was essentially the same, mixing up which ward I was giving the ability to ("MeteorWard" vs "MeteorWard2"). Thank you, both!