Time

Can anyone tell me if the build time is in seconds or something else. Im trying to use some of unit properties from war 2 editor and in war 2 they have 45 and in war 3 they have 15 can someone telle me what is what.

Why don't you start the respective games and time them for yourself?

I'm almost certain the time in Warcraft 3 is in seconds, but I have no idea about Warcraft 2. It is entirely possible that similar units have different build times between the two games.

Wc3 is in seconds.

Wc2... not sure. If it doesn't seem like seconds, it's probobly ticks, or game time.

Ok thank you for the info.

I researched this a while ago, recreated the Wc2 combat engine completely in GUI triggers (leak tastic).

Basically Wc2 time is measured in cycles.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/wc2/clock.html

This old article should tell you everything you need to know about wc2's strange engine.

Combat was especially complex, fun time triggering that was.

Hey you wouldnt have any of the war 2 stuff that i could use would you?

If you mean my triggers, than no. They were more an experiement than a practical map. Because of the way damage is calculated in wc2 it meant i had to actually trigger EVERY attack and use triggers to deal damage etc. Wc2 has really fast attack speeds for many things awell so i doubt it would be anything more than a lag fest in most cases online.

Im relativly sure that triggers are the only way to do it aswell, although i did consider a complicated system using +dmg item abilities and Damage reduction abilities i deciced i still wouldnt be able to seamlessly create a system that entirly mimics WC2's engine.

Ya best bet would be to try an lure a jass guru into triggering up a system in JASS, it would probably be more efficient.

That article i linked you to contains a very good breaksown of WC2's combat engine, useful as it truely was a convuluted system.