Detecting melee & Ranged damage -

09-30-2007, 01:57 AM	#1
Blackroot	Heya, I'm look for a good way to detect how much damage an individual unit is doing reguardless of being ranged/melee. I'm trying to avoid detecting every unit in an event, but blizzard seems to only support unit's taking damage anyway -,-. Thanks for the help.

09-30-2007, 07:34 AM

Pyrogasm

Set up these triggers:

Trigger:

Initialization Trigger

Events

Map Initialization

Conditions

Actions

Set TempPoint = (Center of (Playable map area))

Unit - Create 1 Footman for (Player 1 (Red)) at TempPoint facing (Default building facing) degrees

Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_TempPoint)

Trigger - Add to Damaged <gen> the event (Last created Unit) takes damage

Damaged

Events

Conditions

Actions

If (All conditions are true) then do (Then actions) else do (Else actions)

If - Conditions

(Unit-type of (Damage Source)) equal to Footman

Then - Actions

Set UnitIndex = 1

Else - Actions

If (All conditions are true) then do (Then actions) else do (Else actions)

If - Conditions

(Unit-type of (Damage Source)) equal to Archer

Then - Actions

Set UnitIndex = 2

Else - Actions

If (All conditions are true) then do (Then actions) else do (Else actions)

If - Conditions

(Unit-type of (Damage Source)) equal to Grunt

Then - Actions

Set UnitIndex = 3

Else - Actions

----- And so on and so forth -----

Set DamageTotal[UnitIndex] = (DamageTotal[UnitIndex] + (Damage done))

Set TimesDamage[UnitIndex] = (TimesDamaged[UnitIndex] + 1)

Set DamageAverage[UnitIndex] = (DamageTotal[UnitIndex] / TimesDamaged[UnitIndex])

Unit - Set (Triggering Unit) life to 100%

Then, you'll have to find some way of getting multiple units to attack this dummy unit. My suggestion is to repeatedly create a duplicate of different unit-types on the map and have them attack it at init to get an average.

09-30-2007, 07:58 AM

Malf

Since this is about damage, might I also ask a question?

With the native:

JASS:

native UnitDamageTarget             takes unit whichUnit, widget target, real amount, boolean attack, boolean ranged, attacktype attackType, damagetype damageType, weapontype weaponType returns boolean

what does boolean attack and boolean ranged do? What are the differences?

Damage1: call UnitDamageTarget(u, t, 1, true, false, null, null, null)
Damage2: call UnitDamageTarget(u, t, 1, true, true, null, null, null)
Damage3: call UnitDamageTarget(u, t, 1, false, false, null, null, null)
Damage4: call UnitDamageTarget(u, t, 1, false, true, null, null, null)
Oh, and I'm also curious about passing attacktypes and damagetypes as null, what would happen then?

09-30-2007, 12:54 PM

moyack

boolean attack defines in how the hardcoded AI will make react the attacked unit. If it's set to true, the attacked unit will know who was the attacker and it will attack the damage source if it's in the attack range. If it's set to false, the attacked unit won't know who is attacking and it will move away, trying to "avoid more damage".

About ranged boolean, I'm not sure, but I suggest to set it according to the situation.

About the damage types, only set to null the weapon type, the others control the damage, but I think that setting them to null would be equivalent to dealt a chaos damage (honestly I haven't tested it).

09-30-2007, 06:08 PM	#5
Pyrogasm	I forgot to mention, my method would give you an average for each unit-type that you could reference later in the game. It's not a method for getting it on-the-fly, nor will it be 100% accurate.

09-30-2007, 11:45 PM

Blackroot

I tried your function pyro, it wont work for my map, several units have the same damage, and hero's that level will change there damage. Even if I update it for heros, there's to big of a chance that several units will conflict in damage.

I've made about four functions trying to test damage, none of them are very accurate and seem to return the wrong mob about 8-12% of the time. Still, that wont stop me.