Increasing Bounty Displaying Numbers

11-19-2003, 04:32 PM

I know this has been asked a lot and I will hopfully have something a little different to ask. I know how to make a unit drop it's bounty by setting the player flag on for the player and setting the bounty in the unit editor. Now, I didn't use that method because I wanted an increasing bounty with hero level so I went complete triggers.

Player - Add ((Hero level of (Dying unit)) x 100) to (Owner of (Killing unit)) Current gold

but, I want it to display the number/amount of gold above the dying units head when it's collected. How do I do this? Setting bounty doesn't have anything to do with this, I believe it's all trigger based... help would be appreciated. Hope this is different than what these other people are asking.

11-19-2003, 05:57 PM

Ligature

Eeek. Toughy.

As far as I know there are no actions to change a unit's bounty... so you have a couple options:

1. Have heroes that level-up quickly replaced by new units, and make as many units for each hero as you want levels. (yuck)

2. Do away with the game's bounty system and make your own, using floating text and special effects to reproduce the bounty-dropping.

Neither way is very much fun. The first is less conceptually difficult, but also much less elegant. Meanwhile, the second is a pain in the, uh, neck. Floating texts are incredibly touchy and buggy, and you'd have to have at least two arrays - one to keep track of the floating texts, and one to keep track of the special effects...

11-19-2003, 06:08 PM

volatile

well, it sounds like I'm not going to be doing that anytime soon... forget all the work that's involved in that one... :) Create a new hero for every level?? yikes! I wish there was just a way to create an expanding bounty in triggers... that would make it so much easier... Editor Wish List maybe? If anyone can think of another way to make this work... please let me know... I'm sure others would like to know as well.

11-19-2003, 06:56 PM	#4
Das Jank	Just use the second idea that Ligature said. Use floating text to display it above the dying units head. It only takes 1 trigger and is not really that long or complicated. I added one for my rpg to display the exp the dying unit gave to my hero. You just have to make sure to set the floating texts to an array just incase he kills 2 heros at the same time.

11-20-2003, 12:09 AM

Grater

Floating text isn't nearly as hard as some make out... yes it can be flaky as hell but it's entirely possible to make a functioning.

Code:

Fake Bounty
Events
Unit - A unit owned by Player 12 (Brown) Dies
Conditions
Actions
Custom script: local texttag udg_BountyText
Floating Text - Create floating text that reads (String((Point-value of (Dying unit)))) above (Dying unit) with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (90.00%, 80.00%, 0.00%), and 0.00% transparency
Set BountyText = (Last created floating text)
Floating Text - Set the velocity of BountyText to 64.00 towards 90.00 degrees
Wait 1.00 game-time seconds
Floating Text - Destroy BountyText

You need to create a global floating text variable called "BountyText"

This is about as simple as it gets, no fading though.

If you want the text to fade it's a bit more work, altough not much more...

11-20-2003, 12:19 AM	#6
Panto	You can also manually add that Coin special effect to the location of the unit that's killed, to get the visuals that accompany bounty.

11-20-2003, 01:33 AM

Ligature

Grater's trigger will work under most conditions, but it fails when:

1. you have weird camera angles that can change - the text moves horizontally, not vertically.

2. you have many units dying and giving bounties simultaneously - in this case, you can use Grater's trigger with just a little tweaking to set up a Floating Text array; otherwise floating texts are likely to persist forever, when one unit is killed during the "wait 1 second" of the fake bounty triggered by another unit.

11-20-2003, 01:51 PM

Vexorian

Check this function I made, copy it to the trigger root

Code:

function Bounty_child takes nothing returns nothing
local texttag t= bj_lastCreatedTextTag
local effect goldcoins=bj_lastCreatedEffect
local integer alpha=255
    call DestroyTrigger( GetTriggeringTrigger() )
    call TriggerSleepAction(2.00)
    loop
       set alpha=alpha - 64
       exitwhen alpha <= 0
       call SetTextTagColor(t,255,220,0,alpha)
       call TriggerSleepAction(0.01)
    endloop
call DestroyTextTag(t)
call DestroyEffect(goldcoins)
endfunction

function Bounty takes player whichplayer, integer bounty, real x, real y returns nothing
local texttag t=CreateTextTag()
local trigger child=CreateTrigger()
    set bj_lastCreatedEffect=AddSpecialEffect("UI\\Feedback\\GoldCredit\\GoldCredit.mdl",x,y)
    call SetTextTagVisibility(t,(GetLocalPlayer() == whichplayer))
    call AdjustPlayerStateBJ( bounty, whichplayer, PLAYER_STATE_RESOURCE_GOLD )
    call SetTextTagText(t,"+"+I2S(bounty),0.025)
    call SetTextTagPos(t,x,y, 0.00)
    call SetTextTagColor(t,255,220,0,255)
    call SetTextTagVelocity(t,0,0.02)
    call TriggerAddAction( child, function Bounty_child )
    set bj_lastCreatedTextTag=t
    call TriggerExecute( child )
endfunction

Then whenever you want to give bounty to a player

then use this:

set deadunit=(triggering unit)
set bountyplayer = (owner of (killing unit))
set bounty = 1000
Custom Script: call Bounty( udg_bountyplayer , udg_bounty ,GetUnitX(udg_deadunit) , GetUnity(udg_deadunit) )

You'll need an unit variable called deadunit (case sensitive please) , a player variable called bountyplayer and an integer variable called bounty

It will give the player the bounty, show the floatting text to the player, the special effect, and it will also fade the text as the normal bounty does.

12-05-2003, 09:06 PM	#9
volatile	Great job, but how do you add the JASS to the Trigger Root? That's the only part I'm stuck on. I got the variables and other stuff... The only thing I need is where you add the JASS to and where you put the actions "setting variables" at...

12-05-2003, 09:17 PM	#10
Vexorian	Well I guess that you should check my attachment , also these things: set deadunit=(triggering unit) set bountyplayer = (owner of (killing unit)) set bounty = 1000 Custom Script: call Bounty( udg_bountyplayer , udg_bounty ,GetUnitX(udg_deadunit) , GetUnity(udg_deadunit) ) go in the trigger's actions