A bunch of questions...

Anything.

New Member
Reaction score
69
4. How come Mana Burn burns more mana than the target has in mana? And then, as a result inflicts damage regardless of how much mana is burned?

5. I based a spell off of Cloud. It doesn't work. I disabled targeting Self on the fields and able to target allies and friend alike, as long as they are Non-Hero. The Hero goes up, and then silences itself, and stops channeling. When I make it target only enemies, the effect doesn't work at all.

8. Cleave doesn't work. Please explain fields.

(10. Non-existant.)

11. How come if a Unit kills itself with War Stomp, none of the effects show, not even on the units which still stay alive.

16. How do I decrease the radius in which the computer decides to send in reinforcements, if not at all? (I'm making an RPG and I would prefer if the computer didn't send creeps from all the corners of the map to reinforce, thanks.)

_____________________________

Answered Questions dump ;) (This is for my own sake)
Code:
[size=2]

[b]1.[/b] How do I get an icon to Share the same Disabled icon? Say I made an Auto-cast version of an already existing spell, but I don't want to overwrite the old spell. I have alread tried editing the path to PassiveButtons/PASBTNxxx.blp, and CommandButtons/BTNxxxOn.blp and neither work. [b]Answered.[/b]
[b]2.[/b] Please check this trigger and tell me why it just sets my mana to 115 instead of splInteger x 1.50? [b]Nevermind, solved.[/b]
[b]3.[/b] How come Rejuvenation sometimes doesn't work unless I play around the full health / mana button? I made a positive spell to cast on allies. I try to click on an enemy unit, it says can only target allied units, perfect. But, when I select a regular unit, it says can only target Heroes, perfect. But the problem is when I click on a Hero... NOTHING happens, spell unused, and no cooldown / mana cost / effect. [b]Solved.[/b]
[b]9.[/b] How do I get a disabled version of the secret icons which are in the game, but not searchable under the Icon selector, such as: [I]ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtons\BTNRegeneration.blp[/I] [b]Solved[/b][/b]
[b]6.[/b] Why can't I use Doodads and Destructibles as buff effects? [b]Answered.[/b]
[b]7.[/b] Is there any way to convert Magic Bracers into a Unit skill with it showing up, but without a dummy skill to show it? (Yes or no) [b]Answered (No, I guess).[/b]
[b]12.[/b] How do I null the cheat "[I]Allyourbasearebelongtous[/I]" in a Single Player Campaign (I [b]don't[/b] want someone to skip levels and then ruin the RPG ;)? [b]Answered.[/b]
[b]13.[/b] I heard that there was some problem detecting when a unit casts an Arrow spell. Not really interested in it - just for future reference, what is it?? [b]Answered.[/b]
[b]14.[/b] Why doesn't Orb of Annhilation work for me? Sometimes it doesn't cost mana. Most of the time, it doesn't do the AoE. Sometimes there is no cooldown and it goes really laggy because the unit is attacking 100 times a second :banghead: [b]Answered.[/b]
[b]15.[/b] Do the mana costs total up before or after the effect of an ability is started Event? Does the unit lose the mana before or after that Event? [b]Answered.[/b]
[b]17.[/b] What the heck is an invisible platform?! [b]Ooh. I see XD[/b]

[/size]
 

Arkan

Nobody rides for free
Reaction score
92
3. Make sure duration is >=0.01 and make sure data life gained is >=0.01
6. Been wondering the same :/
7. Yes
8. Cleave only works on melee heroes, interesting data fields are Distributed Damage Factor (% of your damage that is dealt to nearby units) and AOE which is the AOE
9. Try searching with a tool like WC3 Image Extractor II
10. Create your own, import the active btn and remove border and set opacity to 47%
13. Auto-cast spells are special, if you press the button and select a target it is recognised as "starts the effects of an ability", but if you have it on auto-cast and attack a unit it is recognised as "unit is attacked"
 

Anything.

New Member
Reaction score
69
Arkan said:
3. Make sure duration is >=0.01 and make sure data life gained is >=0.01
6. Been wondering the same :/
7. Yes
8. Cleave only works on melee heroes, interesting data fields are Distributed Damage Factor (% of your damage that is dealt to nearby units) and AOE which is the AOE
9. Try searching with a tool like WC3 Image Extractor II
10. Create your own, import the active btn and remove border and set opacity to 47%
13. Auto-cast spells are special, if you press the button and select a target it is recognised as "starts the effects of an ability", but if you have it on auto-cast and attack a unit it is recognised as "unit is attacked"
Okay, thanks. I'm bolding things which I'm going to talk about in a second...

#1. Yes? I can change it into a Unit skill... But since it's in a different nature, the spell doesn't show up on the Hero / unit you give it to. If you can make it show up, then tell me how!

#2. These fields are fixed up and the Hero is a Melee Hero, yet the damage doesn't splash, and I have no other skills which overwrite Cleave.

#3. It's not programmed in, and if you import it, it doesn't show up as the Disabled icon.
 

Arkan

Nobody rides for free
Reaction score
92
7. Since there is no item called Magic Bracers I assume you mean Runed Bracers which give Spell reduction. I suggest you make a skill based on Hardened Skin (or any passive skill) and set all data fields to 0 so it doesn't do anything, then setup a trigger that let you learn the "invisible" spell reduction ability everytime you learn the passive skill.
8. Sounds really odd, I'm clueless.
9. I guess you could always make it yourself
 

Anything.

New Member
Reaction score
69
Arkan said:
7. Since there is no item called Magic Bracers I assume you mean Runed Bracers which give Spell reduction. I suggest you make a skill based on Hardened Skin (or any passive skill) and set all data fields to 0 so it doesn't do anything, then setup a trigger that let you learn the "invisible" spell reduction ability everytime you learn the passive skill.
8. Sounds really odd, I'm clueless.
9. I guess you could always make it yourself
Yeah, Runed Bracers, Magic Bracers, whatever. So, I'll be using a dummy ability then? Sure why not.

About making the icon myself - it doesn't seem that the icon accepts that I have imported a disabled version, no matter what I do. Looks like I'm doing something wrong?
 

Darox

New Member
Reaction score
8
5. For cloud, you would probably need to have a dummy unit, so that the hero doesnt stop his own cloud instantly.
11. Im pretty sure this is because Warstomp was never ment to kill the user, so it gets confused when that happens, and because the caster died before the spell was fully completed, none of the effects turn up. (You get this sometimes when you kill a unit just as its casting.)
 

Anything.

New Member
Reaction score
69
Darox said:
5. For cloud, you would probably need to have a dummy unit, so that the hero doesnt stop his own cloud instantly.
11. Im pretty sure this is because Warstomp was never ment to kill the user, so it gets confused when that happens, and because the caster died before the spell was fully completed, none of the effects turn up. (You get this sometimes when you kill a unit just as its casting.)
The Hero doesn't stop his own cloud. He isn't targetted by the spell at all.

The damage shows on the units, but I have a trigger which makes effects on the units which it targets, but if the Hero dies, the effects don't show - it's like if a unit with buffs dies - the effects are removed - but the units don't die.
 
G

Goauld

Guest
1. This is not possible, you need to have a disabled icon for each different icon. And the filenames must be the same except for the DIS at the start of the disabled's filename.

6. Because. Many of them have a <base> model and they don't work in buffs correctly.

9. If it shows a green icon, then check with image extractor if it really has a disabled icon and if it doesn't just do it yourself, search for warcraft icon pack in wc3campaigns.

11. You mean it targets self and enemies? May be a game issue, try triggering the damage on self.

12. The codes cannot be nulled, but they work only in single player.

14. Orb of Annihilation is one weird ability when it is modified, use Quill Spray instead, it is basically the same thing.

15. Starts the effect is when the ability goes in cooldown and mana is already spent.
 

Monovertex

Formerly Smith_S9
Reaction score
1,461
12. Create a boolean variable and, when the game starts, store it in a game cache as false. When the player finishes the map sucesfully, turn that boolean to true and stoe it again, overwriting the previous value. When the second map starts, restore the boolean and check it. If it's false, the player cheated. Then do whatever you want. :p

17. Put a couple of them one near each other. then raise them all in the air (not too much), at the same level. put a unit under them. Test the map. See what happens and you'll understand what is it.
 
General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
  • Monovertex Monovertex:
    How are you all? :D
    +1
  • Ghan Ghan:
    Howdy
  • Ghan Ghan:
    Still lurking
    +3
  • The Helper The Helper:
    I am great and it is fantastic to see you my friend!
    +1
  • The Helper The Helper:
    If you are new to the site please check out the Recipe and Food Forum https://www.thehelper.net/forums/recipes-and-food.220/
  • Monovertex Monovertex:
    How come you're so into recipes lately? Never saw this much interest in this topic in the old days of TH.net
  • Monovertex Monovertex:
    Hmm, how do I change my signature?
  • tom_mai78101 tom_mai78101:
    Signatures can be edit in your account profile. As for the old stuffs, I'm thinking it's because Blizzard is now under Microsoft, and because of Microsoft Xbox going the way it is, it's dreadful.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    I am not big on the recipes I am just promoting them - I use the site as a practice place promoting stuff
    +2
  • Monovertex Monovertex:
    @tom_mai78101 I must be blind. If I go on my profile I don't see any area to edit the signature; If I go to account details (settings) I don't see any signature area either.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    You can get there if you click the bell icon (alerts) and choose preferences from the bottom, signature will be in the menu on the left there https://www.thehelper.net/account/preferences
  • The Helper The Helper:
    I think I need to split the Sci/Tech news forum into 2 one for Science and one for Tech but I am hating all the moving of posts I would have to do
  • The Helper The Helper:
    What is up Old Mountain Shadow?
  • The Helper The Helper:
    Happy Thursday!
    +1
  • Varine Varine:
    Crazy how much 3d printing has come in the last few years. Sad that it's not as easily modifiable though
  • Varine Varine:
    I bought an Ender 3 during the pandemic and tinkered with it all the time. Just bought a Sovol, not as easy. I'm trying to make it use a different nozzle because I have a fuck ton of Volcanos, and they use what is basically a modified volcano that is just a smidge longer, and almost every part on this thing needs to be redone to make it work
  • Varine Varine:
    Luckily I have a 3d printer for that, I guess. But it's ridiculous. The regular volcanos are 21mm, these Sovol versions are about 23.5mm
  • Varine Varine:
    So, 2.5mm longer. But the thing that measures the bed is about 1.5mm above the nozzle, so if I swap it with a volcano then I'm 1mm behind it. So cool, new bracket to swap that, but THEN the fan shroud to direct air at the part is ALSO going to be .5mm to low, and so I need to redo that, but by doing that it is a little bit off where it should be blowing and it's throwing it at the heating block instead of the part, and fuck man
  • Varine Varine:
    I didn't realize they designed this entire thing to NOT be modded. I would have just got a fucking Bambu if I knew that, the whole point was I could fuck with this. And no one else makes shit for Sovol so I have to go through them, and they have... interesting pricing models. So I have a new extruder altogether that I'm taking apart and going to just design a whole new one to use my nozzles. Dumb design.
  • Varine Varine:
    Can't just buy a new heatblock, you need to get a whole hotend - so block, heater cartridge, thermistor, heatbreak, and nozzle. And they put this fucking paste in there so I can't take the thermistor or cartridge out with any ease, that's 30 dollars. Or you can get the whole extrudor with the direct driver AND that heatblock for like 50, but you still can't get any of it to come apart
  • Varine Varine:
    Partsbuilt has individual parts I found but they're expensive. I think I can get bits swapped around and make this work with generic shit though
  • Ghan Ghan:
    Heard Houston got hit pretty bad by storms last night. Hope all is well with TH.

      The Helper Discord

      Members online

      No members online now.

      Affiliates

      Hive Workshop NUON Dome World Editor Tutorials

      Network Sponsors

      Apex Steel Pipe - Buys and sells Steel Pipe.
      Top