Floating Text.

I need to make a trigger that when player 1 kills a unit it creats floating text above the dying units head displaying the units Point Value for a few seconds and then disappearing. If at all possible maybe it move up and fade out but that might be to complicated. Could anyone write up a quick trigger that might do this?

That is... rather a sickening trigger... the moving upwards at least. Pity you can't set the Z velocity of a floating text...

The creating text above a dead unit should be pretty easy...

E - [Generic unit event] A unit dies
C - [player comparison] killing unit equal to Player 1
A - create floating text above dying unit [properties up to you] that reads (string(point value of dying unit)
A - set N = N + 1
A - set FloatingTextArray(N) = Last created floating text
A - wait x seconds
A - destroy FloatingTextArray(1)
A - set N = N - 1
A - for integer A = 1 to N do actions:
A - set FloatingTextArray(integer A) = FloatingTextArray(integer A + 1)

I THINK this should work... anyone see a problem with it?

That wont scroll the text up, like Critical strike does, and the last element of the array will be duplicated so, after your Left-Shift the array, you need to set Array(N) = 0 and you need N = N - 1 as the last line.

why bother cleaning up the last member of the array? will it free up memory to set it to zero?

It is a good programming habit to get into, otherwise the data in that index becomes "undefined" rather than 0.

Ligature - Ok thanks for all the help, I got it to scroll up by adding a Velocity to it.

MarSara - I moved the Set N = N - 1 to the last line but where do I need to put the Array(N) = 0??

Wow... can you set the Z velocity of a floating text? How'd you do it?

Floating Text - Set the velocity of (Last created floating text) to 64.00 towards 90.00 degrees

that the default of what it does when you add it and its just about right.

Ah, thanks. Unfortunately the map I'm working on uses weird camera angles so it probably won't work... glad it worked out for you tho!

// Ligature