Blizzard Questions

05-13-2006, 03:11 AM	#1
kaldoreielf	I am making a spell, based off of the Human abilty, Blizzard. I have some questions: 1.) Is there any way to change the art of the falling shards? 2.) Is there any way to effect units when it is cast? example: If its cast on Human units, they gain health, but if its cast on any other race, they lose health. Thanks in advance.

05-13-2006, 03:13 AM	#2
Mystic Prophet	ok. first to change the artwork. go to the object editor. and where it says effects. change that to the desired artwork (this is assuming you dont want custom eyecandy in which case you'll have to trigger it) As for having it heal human units and hurt others. you'd have to do the spell by triggers and then put that as a condition.

05-13-2006, 03:22 AM

kaldoreielf

Ok, so how do I remove the actual Blizzard Art from the spell?
And add more than one of the art I want?
EDIT: How can I make a Dummy Unit cast a spell?
EDIT2: How can I set a region to a space where the spell was cast?
EDIT3:

Trigger:

Untitled Trigger 001

Events

Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability

Conditions

(Ability being cast) Equal to PaladinABILITY

Actions

Rect - Center TempRect on (Target point of ability being cast)

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Random point in TempRect) using Abilities\Spells\Human\HolyBolt\HolyBoltSpecialArt.mdl

Set SpcEffect[1] = (Last created special effect)

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Random point in TempRect) using Abilities\Spells\Human\HolyBolt\HolyBoltSpecialArt.mdl

Set SpcEffect[2] = (Last created special effect)

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Random point in TempRect) using Abilities\Spells\Human\HolyBolt\HolyBoltSpecialArt.mdl

Set SpcEffect[3] = (Last created special effect)

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Random point in TempRect) using Abilities\Spells\Human\HolyBolt\HolyBoltSpecialArt.mdl

Set SpcEffect[4] = (Last created special effect)

why doesnt this trigger work? It creates nothing.

05-13-2006, 06:22 AM

Mystic Prophet

try holy bolt target. holy bolt special is barely noticable.

and to make a dummy unit cast a spell you do the following.

Trigger:

dummy cast

Events

Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability

Conditions

(Ability being cast) Equal to Blizzard

Actions

Set temp_point = (Position of (Target unit of ability being cast))

Unit - Create 1 Dummy for Player 1 (Red) at temp_point facing Default building facing (270.0) degrees

Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Human Archmage - Blizzard temp_point

Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game

Point - Remove temp_point

and you don't have to set a region to the space where the spell was cast. you can simply do this

Trigger:

Damage area

Events

Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability

Conditions

(Ability being cast) Equal to Blizzard (dummy)

Actions

Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within 500.00 of (Target point of ability being cast) matching (((Target unit of ability being cast) belongs to an enemy of (Owner of (Triggering unit))) Equal to True)) and do (Actions)

Loop - Actions

Unit - Cause (Triggering unit) to damage (Picked unit), dealing 500.00 damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal

Unit Group - Destroy unit group (Last created unit group)

BUT if you want to move a region (its actually a rect) then you'd do the following.

Trigger:

Move Rect

Events

Conditions

Actions

Rect - Center region on offset((X of (Target point of ability being cast)), (Y of (Target point of ability being cast)))

NOTE: it will say region instead of rect on the normal world editor. Also the destory unit group and remove point triggers are only available on world editor unlimited. On normal WE, you'll need to use a custom script.

EDIT: oh and to change the blizzard art, you need to go to object editor (buffs/effects) and change the artwork on the blizzard(effect) dont bother with the buff.

05-13-2006, 07:08 AM	#5
kaldoreielf	Whats the model path for holy bolt target? I can't seem to find it...

05-13-2006, 11:01 AM	#6
Blade.dk	JASS: Abilities\Spells\Human\HolyBolt\HolyBoltSpecialArt.mdl

05-13-2006, 11:36 AM	#7
kaldoreielf	Ok, I found the model path. New problem, I want it too damage Undead units/heroes, and heal Human units/heroes. How can I do this?

05-13-2006, 10:45 PM

Mystic Prophet

Use an if then condition in connection with the damage area trigger.

Trigger:

Damage area

Events

Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability

Conditions

(Ability being cast) Equal to Blizzard

Actions

Loop - Actions

If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)

If - Conditions

((Picked unit) is Undead) Equal to True

Then - Actions

Unit - Cause (Triggering unit) to damage (Picked unit), dealing 500.00 damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal

Else - Actions

Unit - Cause (Triggering unit) to damage (Picked unit), dealing -500.00 damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal

Unit Group - Destroy unit group (Last created unit group)

05-14-2006, 01:05 AM	#9
kaldoreielf	Trigger: Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within 500.00 of (Target point of ability being cast) [b]matching[/b] (((Target unit of ability being cast) belongs to an enemy of (Owner of (Triggering unit))) Equal to True)) and do (Actions) How do I get too the matching part? Trigger: ((Picked unit) is Undead) Equal to True How do I get too Undead?

05-14-2006, 05:01 AM	#10
Mystic Prophet	the matching part is a seperate action under pick ever unit and do multiple actions it says pick every unit matching condition and do multiple options. undead is under the boolean comparison the same place you get matching unit is a hero. just scroll down and select undead.