Shockwave healing allies/damage enemies

[Sunchips]

I wan't to make an ability that works, and looks just like the tauren chieftain shockwave but I wan't it to damage enemies that it hits and heal allies that are hit by it but I don't know how to do that I have to use a dummy right? GUI pls

 

[Rainther]

I actually made one of these in vJass, except it was a moving orb and it only damaged undeads and healed all allies.

Anyhow I doubt there's an easy way to fix this, especially by going GUI.

 

[Sunchips]

I made the normal spell just a normal shockwave but with more damage and so I made a shockwave wich deals -damage but as it only affects enemies of the caster i tried making a dummy for neutral hostile at the location of the caster, casting the negative damage schockwave at the same time wich should heal enemies of the dummy, wich is friends of the actual caster.

I tried this trigger but it doesn't work :/

• Holy Wave
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Holy Wave
  • Actions
    • Set HW_Cast_loc = (Position of (Casting unit))
    • Set HW_Target_loc = (Position of (Target unit of ability being cast))
    • Unit - Create 1 Holy Wave caster (heal) 1 for Neutral Hostile at (Center of (Playable map area)) facing Default building facing degrees
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Level of Holy Wave for (Casting unit)) Equal to 1
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Add Holy Wave (heal) 1 to (Last created unit)
        • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Orc Tauren Chieftain - Shockwave HW_Target_loc
        • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game
      • Else - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Level of Holy Wave for (Casting unit)) Equal to 2
          • Then - Actions
            • Unit - Add Holy Wave (heal) 2 to (Last created unit)
            • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Orc Tauren Chieftain - Shockwave HW_Target_loc
            • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game
          • Else - Actions
            • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
              • If - Conditions
                • (Level of Holy Wave for (Casting unit)) Equal to 3
              • Then - Actions
                • Unit - Add Holy Wave (heal) 3 to (Last created unit)
                • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Orc Tauren Chieftain - Shockwave HW_Target_loc
                • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game
              • Else - Actions
                • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
                  • If - Conditions
                    • (Level of Holy Wave for (Casting unit)) Equal to 4
                  • Then - Actions
                    • Unit - Add Holy Wave (heal) 4 to (Last created unit)
                    • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Orc Tauren Chieftain - Shockwave HW_Target_loc
                    • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game
                  • Else - Actions
                    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
                      • If - Conditions
                        • (Level of Holy Wave for (Casting unit)) Equal to 5
                      • Then - Actions
                        • Unit - Add Holy Wave (heal) 5 to (Last created unit)
                        • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Orc Tauren Chieftain - Shockwave HW_Target_loc
                        • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game
                      • Else - Actions
                        • Do nothing

shouldn't there be any way to use this idea?

 

[Sefiraat]

firstly, this is wrong

Unit - Create 1 Holy Wave caster (heal) 1 for Neutral Hostile at (Center of (Playable map area)) facing Default building facing degrees

should be made just under the casting unit

 

[Laiev]

All

You can improve it

instead of

• If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
  • If - Conditions
  • (Level of Holy Wave for (Casting unit)) Equal to 1
  • Then - Actions
  • Unit - Add Holy Wave (heal) 1 to (Last created unit)
  • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Orc Tauren Chieftain - Shockwave HW_Target_loc
  • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game

Do:

• Unit - Add Holy Wave (heal) to (Last created unit)
  • Unit - Set level of Holy Wave (heal) to (Last created unit) to level of ((Holy Wave) of triggering unit)
  • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Orc Tauren Chieftain - Shockwave HW_Target_loc
  • Unit - Remove (Last created unit) from the game

Something like this

 

[Igor_Z]

You need to trigger the whole process because shockwave damages units in line. You can trigger it, deal damage to enemies, heal allies. I will help you but I can't right now. Myb tommorow

 

[rhoxisback]

You should add an expiration timer instead of removing while it's casting the spell.

 

[Tyman2007]

hmm, trigger the whole shockwave using a unit with the model as a shockwave.
Gather 2 points which is the cast point and the target point and measure the distance.
(With distance between points)
Create shockwave unit with facing angle of caster
Check if Distance > 0 then
move unit instantly with a polar offset of 15 facing the unit's facing
set a unit group with all units around the unit
Go through all your "if levels"
pick all the units in unit group
if unit belongs to an ally of casting unit, add hp, create a special effect and destroy the special effect.
if unit belongs to an enemy, damage it with whatever.
then for the else for the first if/then/else, remove the unit.

That's how I would do it. Somewhat a pseudocode thing.

 

[Rainther]

One thing you will loose by doing such is the ground effect. Aslong as you don't activate the trigger with a visual-less shockwave.

 

[Sunchips]

Could someone show me a good trigger for this? o_o

 

[Rainther]

Sure, do you take vJass? x ] If you know how to create dummies I guess you could simply have a normal shockwave and when you use it a dummy is created, given the healing ability and using it on the same direction as the shockwave, however the healing could be based on Carrion Swarm. I guess those to are pretty much the same damage function and only one of them destroys the ground.
If you need inspiration:

Event - Unit cast spell
Condition - Ability equal to your
Action -
Create Unit Dummy at Position of Triggering Unit
Add ability to last created unit, customized Carrion Swarm (only targets allies and deals -damage)
Set level ability based on Triggerins Unit's ability's level
Order last created unit to Undead - Carrion Swarm at Spell Target Location
Add experation timer to last created unit

 

[AoW_Hun7312]

I swear I saw someone try to make the same thing before. Fairly certain shockwave is hardcoded as to not target allies.

 

[Rainther]

My solution was using Carrion Swarm to heal, but maybe you refered to the topic in mayor?

 

[Sunchips]

Tried the same thing but with shockwave with minus damage it didn't much work sadly enough and also it's annoying since the computer thinks the healed units are under attack as you hear that asshole yelling "Our allies are under attack" :/

 

[Rainther]

Try with Carrion Swarm then. Perhaps it's an exception. Or any other similiar spells. If not, get ready to trigger the effect.

 

[Manix]

Huh you dudes offered some rly messed up stuff, actually the solution is simple as cake, Sunchips listen to me dude,

Create the shockwave ability you want which is the damaging one, then copy/paste it in the abilities section in the object editor, on the new one change targets allowed to FRIEND and put a MINUS before all damage values, to do that you need to shift-click, or change the option "allow negative values in object editor" and then change the name of that ability to Shockwave (HEAL) or whatever, when you do that go in trigger editor and do a trigger like that:


Events
Unit starts the effect of an ability
Conditions
Abiltiy being cast equal to Shockwave (DAMAGE)
Actions
Set point_variable[1] = position of triggering unit
Set point_variable[2] = point of ability being cast
Create 1 DUMMY at point_variable[1]
add shockwave (HEAL) to last created unit
order last created unit to cast shockwave at point_variable[2]
add a 3 second expiration timer to last created unit
Custom Script: call RemoveLocation( udg_point_variable[1] )
Custom Script: call RemoveLocation( udg_point_variable[2] )


and that is it... I just hand made this trigger so it's probably not 100% correct but I guess you'd understand the idea

 

[Rainther]

If you even read half the things we wrote, you'd know that's what we've talked about. And it seems that schockwave can't be negated, as also mentioned.

... Dude

 

[Manix]

Apparently you're using an old version of w3 editor... dude

 

[Rainther]

Dude !

I just passed on what the one we're trying to help said. I'm too laszy to try myself

By the way; 2 schockwaves... Wouldn't it create Grand Canyon? or is the ground only decreased once?

Dude!​

 

[Manix]

>> By the way; 2 schockwaves... Wouldn't it create Grand Canyon? or is the ground only decreased once?

Not rly dude ^^, I had a shockwave nova spell and it looked LOLWUT !