Wisp Gather Lumber

[dragonade311]

Is it possible to blighten the tree the wisp is currently gathering?
and to an extent is it possible for the wisp to deal damage to the tree like a normal worker unit?

 

[Warseeker]

Normally, what you need to do here to blighten the tree is to simply change the race of the wisp/worker to Undead, however, the wisp's harvest lumber ability is different than the others, so you either have to give the wisp a different harvest ability like the peasant harvest ability for example, Although, this will break the wisp's work animations, or you can create a dummy undead worker unit and order it to harvest the tree when the wisp is issued to target it, it may be complicated since there isn't any easy way to detect when a tree is harvested/attacked.

 

[deepstrasz]

@Bribe could you make a DDS for destructibles ?

 

[Warseeker]

One can fake the tree model with a unit instead but that means he will have to create another wood gathering system, or he can periodically check the HP of the tree but then again you can't tell if this latter is attacked or harvested... Both methods seem complicated to me but that's all you can do for now unless Blizzard adds a event to detect when a tree is damaged in future patches.

 

[Bribe]

@Bribe could you make a DDS for destructibles ?

Not currently possible with WarCraft 3. You can set a timer to check when a destructible loses health, and you can track when a unit is issued an order targeting a destructable, but you could not know if a Mortar Team (for example) splash-damage-damaged a tree.

We'll wait and see what Reforged brings to the table in terms of modding capability. My stuff is all on hold until I know what's coming.

 

[wc3neverdies]

You can detect when a unit is given an order that has a destructable as a target. If the order is harvest, the unit is a whisp and the destructable is a tree, then you can set the target destructable to a variable(target destructable = harvestedtree, if within x seconds the health of the harvestedtree changes then it has been harvested.
You can blight a tree if you blight the terrain beneath it. When you have detected the tree that has benn harvested you can set the terrain to blight in the tree coordinates and then change it back to normal.

 

[wc3neverdies]

I just got another idea, you can give the wisp the blight terrain ability with a range of 15. Obviously the wisp will blight the terrain beneath him creating a blight path. But it will blight trees 100% while harvesting this way