The Nether Mage

01-27-2007, 01:42 AM

The Nether Mage
By Pyrogasm
v1.7 (Now includes both GUI and JASS versions)
JASS version complies with JESP standard
GUI version is "purely educational", according to blu
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The Nether Mage is intended as an addition to the melee hero tavern, and was made for WC3Campaigns.net's Hero Contest, in which it won 4th place. Though that may be the intended use, feel free to utilize the hero in any way; this is not a model/art so much as it is a concept, thus there is no rule against altering it as you see fit. All I ask for is that you give me (Pyrogasm) and the people I credited (in the test map) credit. Rather simple, isn't it?

Backstory: The Nether Mages were once highly esteemed members of the Blood Elf race, but are now banished to live among Elves, Demons, Dwarves and Humans. They were exiled when their leader, Jel'Thêdean, used the powerful magic of Planar Manipulation to completely remove a rioting group of Blood Elves from the worldly plane. This act was deemed too inhumane by the High Council, so the entire covenant was banished. Now, the Nether Mages can be found hanging around taverns, willing to work for the right amount of money...

Nether Mage Stats

Here's a list of his Abilities:

Nether Mage Abilities:

	Planar Rift: Active Mana Cost: 115 The Nether Mage lets loose a blast of energy, turning target unit and all units around it ethereal for a duration. If a unit is already in ethereal form, that unit will take damage. Banished units have their movement speed slowed by 25%. Level 1 - 13 second banish, 75 damage. Level 2 - 14 second banish, 125 damage. Level 3 - 15 second banish, 175 damage.
	Phase: Activated Stun/Banish Mana Cost: 50 Allows the Nether Mage to switch a target unit between the ethereal and worldly planes. If the targeted unit is ethereal, it will be reverted to the worldly plane and have all magical buffs removed from it; if the unit is corporeal, it will become banished and stunned for a duration. Level 1 - Banish and Stun both last 3 seconds. Level 2 - Banish lasts 3.5 seconds, stun lasts 4. Level 3 - Banish lasts 4 seconds, stun lasts 5 seconds.
	Planar Disruptance: Passive Aura Mana Cost: 0 Attunes the Nether Mage to disruptances in the fabric of space-time, healing allies and banishing enemies whenever they cast a spell. Banish lasts slightly shorter on heroes. Banished units have their movement speed slowed by 25%. Level 1 - 50 hit points healed, 1.75 second banish, 550 AoE. Level 2 - 80 hit points healed, 2.5 second banish, 600 AoE. Level 3 - 110 hit points healed, 3.25 second banish, 650 AoE.
	Defabricate (Ultimate): Activated AoE Debuff Mana Cost: 165 The Nether Mage tears apart space-time, defabricating all units in a target area. Only affects ethereal units. The effect is permanent unless dispelled, but will expire if the unit becomes corporeal. 350 AoE, 80 second cooldown. Level 1 - Defabricated hostile units take 35 damage per second, while friendly units are healed for 20 hit points per second

And some screenshots:

Defabricate + Planar Disruptance Combo:
Defabricate:
Planar Disruptance:
Planar Rift + Planar Disruptance Combo:
Planar Rift

Everything is native (no custom models, etc.) except for a PASBTN and DISPASBTN I made myself for Planar Disruptance. Additional information about how/what to import in order to successfully implement can be found in the attached text file.

Note: Credit for this nice layout goes directly to Moyack, and indirectly to the Unsung Legends team (apparently).

Attached Images

	Defabricate + Disruptance 1.jpg (236.1 KB)
	Defabricate + Disruptance 2.jpg (284.5 KB)
	Defabricate 1.jpg (230.6 KB)
	Defabricate 2.jpg (290.3 KB)
	Defabricate 3.jpg (234.1 KB)
	Defabricate 4.jpg (285.5 KB)
	Defabricate 5.jpg (288.1 KB)
	Disruptance 1.jpg (227.1 KB)
	Disruptance 2.jpg (227.5 KB)
	Disruptance 3.jpg (274.8 KB)
	Disruptance 4.jpg (221.2 KB)
	Rift + Disruptance 1.JPG (187.7 KB)
	Rift 1.jpg (215.6 KB)
	Rift 2.jpg (213.5 KB)
	Rift 3.jpg (277.8 KB)
	Rift 4.jpg (190.9 KB)
	Submission Pic Again.jpg (147.3 KB)

Attached Files

	Nether Mage v1.4 (GUI).zip (187.3 KB)
	(2)Nether Mage JASS v1.7.w3x.zip (190.6 KB)

01-27-2007, 04:37 AM	#2
Av3n	We don't need to know about hero stats (unless ppl r curious) Hopefully everything is fixed. (Which is probily fixed anyway) Image has an broken link -Av3n

01-27-2007, 05:30 AM	#3
Rising_Dusk	You know, I knew I was forgetting something. I'll have to submit mine tomorrow so I stop forgetting about it. I like this hero. I think you might be required to clean up the leaks Vex pointed out before it can be accepted as a resource, though. Either way, good job.

01-27-2007, 08:13 AM	#4
Pyrogasm	I did clean up the leaks, actually. I made some major changes and updated everything that needed to be updated. I've made the stats hidden now. By-the-way, what link is broken? EDIT: Ah... I found and updated it.

01-28-2007, 02:29 PM

blu_da_noob

For Planar Disruption, why do you use a pseudo detection involving mana used instead of just using 'unit starts the affect an ability'? Also, instead of repeating all your actions for the case of each level, you could just store the level of the buff in a variable (if has buff xx 1 then i = 3, elseif....) and use this in the actions.

Defabricate Periodic Remove leaks a group. Units in XXX creates a new group, so change your clear group to a remove group.

01-28-2007, 09:11 PM

Pyrogasm

Quote:

Originally Posted by blu_da_noob

For Planar Disruption, why do you use a pseudo detection involving mana used instead of just using 'unit starts the affect an ability'?

Because that fires when an item is used also.

Quote:

Originally Posted by blu_da_noob

Also, instead of repeating all your actions for the case of each level, you could just store the level of the buff in a variable (if has buff xx 1 then i = 3, elseif....) and use this in the actions.

That's true... I hadn't considered that; fixed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by blu_da_noob

Defabricate Periodic Remove leaks a group. Units in XXX creates a new group, so change your clear group to a remove group.

Fixed.

Original Post updated!

01-28-2007, 10:29 PM	#7
Rising_Dusk	Trigger: Events - A unit starts the effects of an ability Conditions - Ability being cast equal to (Your Spell Here) Actions - ... That doesn't run the trigger when your hero uses an item. And it is much easier than mana checking.

01-30-2007, 11:19 PM	#8
Pyrogasm	Ok, aside from fixing that Planar Disruptance trigger, what else needs to be changed for this to be approved... Dusk's was approved before he made any changes...

01-31-2007, 04:31 PM

Rising_Dusk

Quote:

Dusk's was approved before he made any changes...

Blu (The person who approves these things) sent me all of the changes on MSN, to which I fixed as he was reviewing it.
Therefore I posted the updated version a couple minutes after he reviewed/approved. (Since he knew I had fixed them all already)

Blu also has only like 1 day a week where he's really capable of approving/going through stuff.
And most of the other moderators don't really have time.

If nothing's done about it by tonight, I'll go through it and tell you what's up, then get Blu to approve once it's all taken care of.
Don't worry, just be patient. :P

01-31-2007, 11:18 PM

#10

Pyrogasm

Ok; that I can do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rising_Dusk

Blu also has only like 1 day a week where he's really capable of approving/going through stuff.
And most of the other moderators don't really have time.

Ah... I didn't realize that he isn't usually able to look at things most days. Had I known that, I would've sat back and waited a bit more

02-01-2007, 04:01 AM

#11

Rising_Dusk

Trigger:

Planar Disruptance Spell Cast

Events

Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability

Conditions

(Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Not equal to Dummy

Actions

Set Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[1] = (Integer((Mana of (Triggering unit))))

Wait 0.01 game-time seconds

Set Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[2] = (Integer((Mana of (Triggering unit))))

Set Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[3] = (Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[1] - Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[2])

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

If - Conditions

Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[3] Greater than 0

Then - Actions

Custom Script - call DoShit(...)

Else - Actions

Do nothing

You really need to fix that.
Just use as an ability check for that.
That's a really important fix, and you can always add as many conditions as you need to it to modify it as you need to.

Remove all of your "Do Nothing" calls.
While they look pretty in GUI, this is what they do in reality.

JASS:

function DoNothing takes nothing returns nothing
endfunction

Pretty pointless, eh?
Yeah, drop 'em. :P

Otherwise, it's about as clean as GUI can get.
I still suggest one day you learn jass and then convert this puppy over.
But hey, it's good enough for my tastes if you fix the above issues.

Once that's done, I figure Blu can stick this in the appropriate section.

02-01-2007, 02:00 PM	#12
blu_da_noob	Event - A unit starts the affect on an ability Condition - Level of (ability being used) for (casting unit) is greater than 0 Action - World domination That should theoretically make it not trigger for items. And yeah, definitely remove those DoNothing's.

02-03-2007, 01:43 AM

#13

Pyrogasm

Allright; I've removed all those lovely "Do Nothing"s, so that's fixed.

I've tried all manner of things relating to something that might enable me to remove the mana-detection actions from the trigger that blu_da_noob and Rising_Dusk have suggested, and that I had thought of my self... but to no avail. The trigger will always fire whenever an item is used. I will be looking into Mana Flare soon; Dusk said that's how Tides of Blood does it's spellcast detection.

If anyone else has some ideas, please do share. If I must use Mana flare, then I think I'll have to rework the triggers for it, which I'd rather not do.

02-03-2007, 04:38 AM

#14

Rising_Dusk

Yeah, I dunno.
I've been fiddling with it to no avail.

To be quite fair though, your code really *shouldnt* work.
The "spell effect" event fires AFTER mana cost has been factored, therefore the difference should be minimal.
However, it should also ALWAYS fire because mana regen changes a unit's actual mana.
Your way really should not work, especially with an ugly wait in there.

If you ask me, I would just make it work for both items and abilities.
Then if any new developments arise that can easily solve it, update it then.
That's just my opinion though, check with Blu.

02-03-2007, 06:41 AM

#15

Pyrogasm

Actually, I'm using an R2I() conversion so the mana regen doesn't show up as some weird real number value. Even if it did, mana regen shouldn't affect the numerical values. Example: 295 (before cast) - 235 (for a spell) = 60; 60 + 0 (0.04 mana regen as an integer) = 60.

I've got one new idea, though it subtracts from the "GUI-only" aspect of the hero: Make a JASS trigger that fires when a spell is cast and uses local integers for the mana costs, then (if the conditions are met) sets the unit to a global variable and runs the other trigger using that variable.

This is what I've changed the trigger(s) to:

Planar Disruptance JASS:

function Trig_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast_JASS_Conditions takes nothing returns boolean
    if ( not ( GetUnitTypeId(GetTriggerUnit()) != 'u00A' ) ) then
        return false
    endif
    return true
endfunction

function Trig_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast_JASS_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
    local integer array Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost
    set Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[1] = R2I(GetUnitStateSwap(UNIT_STATE_MANA, GetTriggerUnit()))
    call PolledWait( 0.01 )
    set Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[2] = R2I(GetUnitStateSwap(UNIT_STATE_MANA, GetTriggerUnit()))
    set Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[3] = ( Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[1] - Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[2] )
    if ( Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[3] > 0 ) then
        set udg_Nether_Mage_Unit = GetTriggerUnit()
        call TriggerExecute( gg_trg_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast )
    else
    endif
    set Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[1] = 0  //Are these necessary? They are local variables...
    set Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[2] = 0
    set Nether_Mage_Spell_Mana_Cost[3] = 0
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast_JASS takes nothing returns nothing
    set gg_trg_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast_JASS = CreateTrigger(  )
    call TriggerRegisterAnyUnitEventBJ( gg_trg_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast_JASS, EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_SPELL_CAST )
    call TriggerAddCondition( gg_trg_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast_JASS, Condition( function Trig_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast_JASS_Conditions ) )
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast_JASS, function Trig_Planar_Disruptance_Spell_Cast_JASS_Actions )
endfunction

Trigger:

Planar Disruptance Spell Cast

Events

Conditions

Actions

Set Nether_Mage_Points[2] = (Position of Nether_Mage_Unit)

For each (Integer A) from 1 to 3, do (Actions)

Loop - Actions

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

If - Conditions

(Nether_Mage_Unit has buff Nether_Mage_Buffs[(Integer A)]) Equal to True

Then - Actions

Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the chest of Nether_Mage_Unit using Objects\Spawnmodels\Undead\UDeathSmall\UDeathSmall.mdl

Unit - Set life of Nether_Mage_Unit to ((Life of Nether_Mage_Unit) + (20.00 + (30.00 x (Real((Integer A))))))

Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)

Else - Actions

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

If - Conditions

(Nether_Mage_Unit has buff Nether_Mage_Buffs[((Integer A) + 3)]) Equal to True

Then - Actions

Unit - Create 1 Dummy for (Owner of Nether_Mage_Unit) at Nether_Mage_Points[2] facing Default building facing degrees

Unit - Add Planar Disruptance (Dummy Banish) to (Last created unit)

Unit - Set level of Planar Disruptance (Dummy Banish) for (Last created unit) to (Integer A)

Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Human Blood Mage - Banish Nether_Mage_Unit

Unit - Add a 1.00 second Generic expiration timer to (Last created unit)

Else - Actions

Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_Nether_Mage_Points[2] )

Custom script: set udg_Nether_Mage_Unit = null

Is that acceptable?

Post Updated with v1.2