Strange thing - Takes Damage event

08-19-2006, 05:18 PM

OK, I've made Any unit takes damage event by adding event for all preplaced units and on "Unit enters the playable map area" event. I made it round the numbers to integer. Here is the damage display part:

Trigger:

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

If - Events

(Damage taken) greater than 0.00

Then - Actions

Floating text - Create floating text that reads (String((Integer((Damage taken))))) at temp_point with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (100.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%), and 0.00% transparency

Else - Actions

Floating text - Create floating text that reads (String((Integer((Damage taken))))) at temp_point with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (0.00%, 100.00%, 0.00%), and 0.00% transparency

I did that to test if healing spells are counted as taking negative damage. Apparently, they aren't (I'll trigger the text myself in every healing spell, thats no problem).

problem is :

when I Storm Bolt an enemy unit (I have 10 lvl mountain king I use for testing) it displays 350 (dmg of stormbolt) in RED colour and 0 dmg in GREEN colour. Anyone have idea where is that 0 dmg from? Also it does trigger green 0 when MK does his normal attacks (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't).

08-19-2006, 05:24 PM	#2
blu_da_noob	Whenever a buff is applied to a unit, it triggers the damage event with a damage of 0.

08-19-2006, 05:25 PM	#3
Jacek	hmm I swear I saw this happening during normal (non-bash) attacks EDIT: oh yeah thunder clap doesn't trigger 0s too. how about that wise guy? clap leaves buffs

08-19-2006, 05:27 PM	#4
blu_da_noob	Perhaps bash applies some buff which is immediately removed or something? No other reason I could see it happening on a normal attack. shrug Perhaps there are inconsistancies in the system. But buffs do trigger a 0 damage event.

08-19-2006, 05:28 PM	#5
Thunder_Eye	I think he means it displays 0 on normal attacks too, or something..

08-19-2006, 05:35 PM	#6
Jacek	check the edit

08-19-2006, 07:14 PM	#7
Vexorian	well just check if absolute value of damage taken is greater than or equal to 1 before showing floating text. there are many ways to trigger a 0 damage. For example you can modiffy a spell to only give buff and deal 0 damage, it would trigger the damage event anyways

08-19-2006, 08:16 PM	#8
Jacek	ya it isn't a problem but I found it quite interesting two damages in one... oh and is there some way to detect healing (I guess only by catching heal spells)

08-20-2006, 07:03 AM	#9
DioD	Heal use SetUnitState function and can be monitor by unit event state change

08-20-2006, 08:20 AM	#10
Blade.dk	Heal can also use the damage natives with a negative value, I think that would be detected in this way.

08-20-2006, 08:29 AM	#11
DioD	Negative damage cause crush

08-20-2006, 09:19 AM	#12
blu_da_noob	No it doesn't.