Ability Cooldown Condition?

[Frozenwind]

Is there anything like
"Abilty x is under cooldown for unit y" condition?
or
"Remaining cooldown for Ability x for unit y" condition?

Would be boolean / integer / real if it exists?

Can't find it with JassCraft at least...

Thanks in advance.

 

[Akolyt0r]

noo... you would have to code your own system to achieve that ...and that would be a LOT of work
...since you would need a database which stores the cooldown for every level of every spell ....

 

[WolfieeifloW]

You could maybe get away with creating a dummy when a spell goes into effect.
Then set the dummy's generic expiration timer to the length of the cooldown.

Then you can check if that dummy's still alive.

I wouldn't recommend doing that though .

 

[simonake]

and that would be a LOT of work

Not that much, I think...

Timers, Timers own da shit.

Okay, It's gui but it's to make you understand.

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Start the effect of an Ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to MySpell
  • Actions
    • Set TheCooldown = 3.00
    • Countdown Timer - Start Timer as a One-shot timer that will expire in TheCooldown seconds

 

[Frozenwind]

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Start the effect of an Ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to MySpell
  • Actions
    • Set TheCooldown = 3.00
    • Countdown Timer - Start Timer as a One-shot timer that will expire in TheCooldown seconds

Thanks for your suggestion, but that isn't MUI.

The dummy could do a lot since it's for towers (so there cannot be units on the tower, so easy to find the dummy with distance check), I think I'll try that. Thanks.

 

[simonake]

Making it Mui makes it automaticly Mui no?

 

[WolfieeifloW]

Making it Mui makes it automaticly Mui no?

What?

That's like saying something like:
"Using timers is automatically using timers no?"
.

 

[8uY_YoU]

Using TT or CS maybe help you for making that code

 

[simonake]

Oh lol. Meant.

Doing it in vJass makes it automaticly mui.

 

[WolfieeifloW]

No it doesn't .
It pretty much makes it MUI, but not always.

 

[13lade619]

sry.. offtopic..

Doing it in vJass makes it automaticly mui.

biggest misconception of v/jass..

a lot of mui spells CAN BE made in v/jass because there are MORE ways to write code.
converting something to v/jass doesnt make things 'automatically' mui.

 

[Akolyt0r]

Not that much, I think...

Timers, Timers own da shit.

you still have to enter the cooldown of each level, of each spell manually
lets assume we got a map with 20 heroes ...each with 4 abilities, which got 4 levels each ...
so we have to enter 20*4*3=320 datasets manually ...now tell me that isnt a lot of work ...

 

[Builder Bob]

you still have to enter the cooldown of each level, of each spell manually
lets assume we got a map with 20 heroes ...each with 4 abilities, which got 4 levels each ...
so we have to enter 20*4*3=320 datasets manually ...now tell me that isnt a lot of work ...

You can use the Grimex Object Merger to create all those spells for you automatically.

Check out this tutorial: http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=125678

Registering them in the system would take some time of course, but all mapping does.

 

[Frozenwind]

Using TT or CS maybe help you for making that code

Ye, I know, that's no problem at all.
I know how to do it, but I'm just lazy so I find the easyest way possible. And in my case, TD-wise, dummies would be the easyest way for me.