Emulating a critical strike?

11-28-2005, 08:13 PM

i want it to display the damage of the unit that caused it
heres what i have

Code:

Events
    Advanced - Any unit takes damage
Actions
    Floating Text - Create floating text that reads (String((Damage taken))) at (Position of (Damage source)) with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (100.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%), and 0.00% transparency
    Floating Text - Set the velocity of (Last created floating text) to 30.00 towards 90.00 degrees
    Wait 2.00 seconds
    Floating Text - Destroy (Last created floating text)

12-19-2005, 02:07 PM	#2
qwertyui	So...? It doesn't work? What is the question here?

12-19-2005, 02:27 PM	#3
Blade.dk	http://www.wc3jass.com/viewtopic.php?t=2386 This function works perfectly for creating floating text and isn't hard to call, just check Vexorian's tutorial on this site. I don't know if the floating text thing was the problem, since you didn't specify it.

12-20-2005, 07:57 AM	#4
N00byStance	If you want this texttag to be multiinstanceable, never. NEVER use (Last created floating text) mate!

12-20-2005, 08:53 AM	#5
Anitarf	You can easily display a unit's damage by giving it a critical strike ability with 100% chance of working and damage multiplier of 1 (so the damage stays the same).

12-20-2005, 11:06 PM

BBDino

I believe judging from his trigger that he wants to display any damage taken, including the damage from spells etc.

However as i'm unaware with how WEU's "Advanced - Any unit takes damage event" function's its difficult to judge why this isn't working.

I am sceptical however regarding WC's ability to measure the damage a unit just took (as he does) , I've always thought it wasn't possible to simply detect that value.

12-20-2005, 11:11 PM	#7
Anitarf	The "Damage taken" event response is avaliable since a recent patch. However, I've seen people have problems getting it to work with the WEU advanced event before, it's possible that it does not work correctly at all. You can try with the specific unit event, just add specific unit events to your damage detect trigger whenever you create a unit so it works for that unit as well.

12-20-2005, 11:23 PM

iNfraNe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anitarf

just add specific unit events to your damage detect trigger whenever you create a unit so it works for that unit as well.

which is probably what weu does, but maybe it forgot adding the units that are preplaced.

12-20-2005, 11:24 PM

BBDino

I guess it's become ingrained with me that WC couldn't specifically tell you how much damage a unit took from an attack.

I guess it's a problem when you've worked with the (evolving) editor, you subconciously don't explore certain development paths because they didn't *used* to work back in oh, 1.05

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Guess i better reread the patch log a few times, just to make sure i remember everything thats changed.