Help With Spells Please

Okay, Well, I have decided to enter the spell tournament, although I probably wont win anything as I cant really do anything overly fancy.

My first spel is a standardized lightning bolt that works like shockwave (Kinda inspired by the dungeons and dragons spell, damage in a line), however the main problem is this- I cant damage the units in a line up to the target point. I can create a lightning effect there, but if you aim say halfway between you and the unit they will still take damage even when not hit by the bolt... Although there is an electrical effect at the very end, so I guess it could be static energy or something. If I could fix this it would be awsome, especially if I could make it so that the lightning effect goes all the way to the final point of the shockwave instead of only part way (wherever you cast the ability).


My second spell Idea that I could code is this- You send a damaging progectile (again like shockwave, but im using carrion swarm), which then again explodes at the target point into other carrion swarms forming 8 in a ring..... However, no matter what I tried, I could not get more than one to fire in a single trigger, and If I used more than one, only one would fire.
So then I tired this: I used 8 triggers for the different gradiants, but alas, only 7 of the 8 fire... And its always the same one (Bottom right one) I know it fires, because when I disable one other triggers it fires. Also If I use a remove unit funtion on all of them only one will fire, so I am currently using negative health regen to kill the dummies. Heres an example of one of the triggers for this spell-



Any help would be greatly appreciated, and it would also help me get my map done faster, as theres only a few more item things left until the open beta, and this spell olimpics thing kind of corresponds to these items as well, lol. Thanks for your time.

Well, I don't really understand your problem with the first spell, so you ought to post up the triggers that you have for that.

As for the second trigger, you're leaking a few locations and some of it isn't going to work properly. For instance, "Casting Unit" fails after a wait; however, "Triggering Unit" (which is equivalent) does not. Also, "A Unit Begins casting" is not the proper event to use, so instead you should use "A unit starts the effect of an ability" because that fires the trigger at the proper time; "Beings Casting" fires before manacost/cooldown are spent whereas "Starts the Effect of" does not.

Finally, all 8 of your triggers can be consolidated into one as shown:
And of course if you don't know what I mean by "leaking" then you ought to go look it up.

Thanks Pyrogasm. I know what a leak is, but I dont really know what leaks.

For my lightning bolt spell heres what I got


For all purposes its a featureless shockwave, but slightly modified to be narrower. So If I can get the thing to always fire at max range, and you are using something to detect if the units are damaged in a line, one thing that I would have liked to add would have units effected be purged. If you want me to post the map I will.

If I understand correctly, your base spell (Shockwave) will make a shockwave (or whatever model) the distance inside the Object Editor value no matter what (so even if you click right beside your unit, it will go all ways). I'm not really sure what you mean by "click half way and it still hurts the unit" so I hope this is right. Also, for the trigger you still need to use "Starts effect of an ability" instead of "begins casting an ability".

Well, I removed whe shockwave model. The spell basically throws a lightning bolt at the poin that you cast shockwave. Since the projectile is removed, you could essentially be blasting the area just before your enemy, but they are still damaged by an invisible shockwave (Although it still does have a lighting effect at the end of it even if you dont see it). I dont know of any other way to do this spell other than a lightening effect (And no, I dont want to use multiple mini projectiles). The reason I have to tuse a lightning effect is because none of the spells will actuall shoot a bolt that acts like shockwave/carrion swarm.

You could trigger it, eg. put the lightning and THEN do damage or throw a shockwave.