about multi shot barrage

I've been surfing around warcraft3campaign trying to look for barrage tutorials or multishot tutorials, all it came out to was make a dummy unit or w/e, anyhow I came across this 1 thread said to do set almost everything to value 0.01, I tried it out and it worked, xcept only problem was the targetting was out of order. I tried every method, tested a lot of results, all of them were failure, I even pm the person that figured out most of it, asking AFB-DieHard "how come when I put the target to 2, it targets 2, but when I put target to 3, it targets 4..." well a few hours of fooling around after that pm I found out the solution finally!! blizzard harsh made this a wacky spell, so folks the way to actually limit targets is by the (TOTAL DAMAGE) option, u've got to limit ur maximum damage, so basically u got to find ur hero, with most damage, say his damage base is 16-18, round it up to 18, and thats ur base damage, so if u want it to target only say 4 for example, then u'd have to put for Maximum Total Damage as 18x4 = 72 as the value, well I hope this helps someone anyhow if u want to know what that fellow's method was, was this:

Damage per target = 0.01
put wutever u want for maximum target
Maximum total damage do wut I did for example, put 0 if u want it to do as many targets that are in the range
area of effect = your hero's range
cast range = 0.01
casting time = 0.01
cool down = 0.01
stats hero duration and normal both = 0.01
for targets put wutever target u want
and make sure your heroes primary attack is a missle

so u see folks you really don't need to do spell triggers for multi shot, unless u are specific then yeah, but this will save the lag :)
Credit goes to AFB-DieHard for his most part of this!

1 - this does not go in this part but in the repository
2 - erm... what's the big news? you just learned how to use an ability - cool
3 - what has this got to do with triggers? O_o I just opened this thread hoping to help someone and all I see is some very easy ability listed...

awful, you want people to use a passive multi shot spell that doesn't cost mana / cooldown, and may affect everyone in a circle instead of the ones in an arc of the circle?

mm sorry I didn't know where to post this, I just followed through the thread that I found best helped me and posted it on the same part, and to the champion spell master, yeah I know it's a cheap spell and all, but if wanted for mana drainage u could just put if casting ability = to barrage, then check for mana if it's =< the mana u want it to be, then stop triggering unit wait and stop it again, if mana => the mana u want, then set var(real) current mana - how much mana u want to take off

and if u want to add mana cost per level, u do another trigg learn barrage, set(how much mana u want) = to (value of the mana cost)*(level of skill learned)

btw I tried ur multi shot example vex, its all great and stuff, I also read the guy wanted it in gui, most of us are not pro's that can do jass, thats why we pick the easy way, sorry no offense but thats how noob think, anyhow I found a glitch in that map, when u shoot multi close to an enemy, I mean really close, it does a repitition of an animation and won't shoot, anyways thought u should know that

I liked this even tho it was trigger area thanks helped loads!nice picture to MeTaCo hahaha

Anyways, this doesn't belong to the repository, only code belongs there, ability editing doesn't even belong to the trigger haven.

Again I apologize for the wrong post, And Yeah most of u like the Auto cast Take off mana part, But I found it an uneasy task to figure out how the damage split, and yes this is a very old post, So umm I'm a lot more sharper now? btw thanks for the support DarthMora!