| 07-14-2007, 05:18 AM | #1 |
First: I am looking for a way to add HP to creeps via ability. This will be for a TD. There is the item ability which adds HP, but when I try and change the level of it with triggers (to adjust HP for current level) it stays at level 1. I am looking for one HP adding ability, with a level for each "wave," and the stats for each correspond to creep HP for that level. Second: I was wondering if anyone knows how to get in contact with the administrator of www.epicwar.com Thanks Guys |
| 07-14-2007, 06:52 AM | #2 |
Why do you need to contact the administrator of EpicWar? If you want to remove a map or something... read there... http://www.epicwar.com/maps/help/ |
| 07-14-2007, 07:00 AM | #3 |
Website Affiliation. |
| 07-14-2007, 07:54 AM | #4 | |
You could use Bonus Mod; basically you have your hp item abilities 1st adds 10 hp, 2nd adds 20 hp, 3rd adds 40hp, 5th adds 80 hp, 6th adds 160 hp etc. Then you can add these abilities and get any number divisible by 10 up to a certain point, and if you need more, make more abilities. You could also do it as base 50/100 depending on what sort of increase you want. EG: if you want 30 hp, you add 10 + 20. Edit: Quote:
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| 07-14-2007, 08:09 AM | #5 | |
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This is (IMO) the one major Editor bug that Blizz should have fixed, especially since their own patch broke it. Basically leveling unit/item abilities with triggers is prone to simply not working, although I'm not aware of anyone documenting the exact circumstances in which it occurs/doesn't occur. |
| 07-14-2007, 11:04 AM | #6 |
HP growth is exponential, so the above method does not work (one that uses multiple of ten, thanks anyway though). |
| 07-14-2007, 11:13 AM | #7 |
What do you actually want to add (ie: values)? If you don't give us info on exactly what you want, we cannot help. Especially not if you're going to shoot down answers which can almost certainly be applied to your problem. |
| 07-14-2007, 11:16 AM | #8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
With bonus mod and 20 levels of abilities, you could add about 10 million hp, with 10 base... I think that is too much, but it shows bonus mod would work for you. Edit: I was boared and wanted to make a point. Table:
And remember you can add one of each ability, allowing you to make and number divisible by 10 up to the final number x2 -10 So with 20 levels and base 10; max of 10485750 hp. With 30 levels of abilities and base 10; max of 10737418230 hp. (~10 billion, over anything you will be using, I pressume.) |
| 07-14-2007, 07:23 PM | #9 |
Alright Captain, I will post the values that I need. I shot down that method because I believed it would not work. It uses a base, and the power increment is always the same. What I need is a way to build off of previous values, with a varying base. I certainly hope that you are right and I am wrong though. Here are the values: Code:
75 87 102 119 139 162 189 221 257 300 350 409 477 556 649 757 883 1,030 1,201 1,401 1,635 1,907 2,225 2,596 3,028 3,533 4,121 4,808 5,609 6,543 7,633 8,905 10,389 12,120 14,139 16,494 19,242 22,448 26,188 30,550 35,640 41,578 48,505 56,586 66,013 77,011 89,840 104,808 122,269 142,639 166,403 194,125 226,466 264,196 308,211 359,559 419,461 489,343 570,868 665,975 As you can see, a creeps HP is 1.1666 the HP of the previous creep. I saw the edit that was posted where it quoted PitzerMike. Does that trick still work? Could it be applied here (can you go beyond level 2?). |
| 07-14-2007, 07:35 PM | #10 |
With a bonus mod system you could add up to 1,048,576 with 20 abilities. That's any value. |
| 07-14-2007, 07:40 PM | #11 |
I was thinking of a way around adding a shitload of abilities to one creep. Could you make an ability array, array size 60 in this case. Then, at start of game set each array value to corresponding ability. Array position 1 would be item hp ability that adds 74 HP, position 2 would be one that adds 86 HP etc. Then, when a creep spawns for say level 4, could you then add array[level]? PS: Do arrays start at 0, I forget. If so, subtract one from the example above. |
| 07-14-2007, 07:54 PM | #12 |
You could write a function for this - you would just go throught the array and add them one by one. Doesn't sound too hard. PS: Why don't you use object editor and just adjust the hit points onthe run? |
| 07-14-2007, 08:04 PM | #13 |
Can't use the object editor because there is a game mode where the creep order is randomized. Thus, every creep must have HP 1 and the game should add HP based on level. |
| 07-14-2007, 09:42 PM | #14 |
Just to make things clear. BonusMod doesn't use multiples of 10, it of course uses powers of 2. That is 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ... 1024, 2048 ... Which is how you can get any bonus you want with a reasonable amount of abilites. And the bug mentioned in the previous post still works and can be combined with both, the BonusMod idea, or the hardcoded amount per level approach that you seem to prefer. |
| 07-14-2007, 09:55 PM | #15 |
Why haven't we mentioned Blade.dk's SetUnitMaxState system? That's surely a lot easier to work with than Bonusmod, as it only uses 2 abilities with 3 levels each. |