Ability data lookup

[evilertoaste]

Hi all,
I've got a problem when I try to lookup a certian field of data for an ability description.
Basically I have a summoning spell that creates a minion for the hero, and I want the tooltip to show how much life and damage the summoned unit does.

I've looked up the ID for the custom minion (n00Q:nsko in this case) and I've added the tooltip lookup for the life as <n00Q:nsko,HP> which works fine (comes back as 350 in this case). But the one for the damage base <n00Q:nsko,dmgplus1> comes back as zero, which is incorrect (should be 10).

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

[AceHart]

n00Q is enough. The rest is a reference to the original unit and not needed...

You're probably still out of luck though for your damage tip...
At least, those for min and max damage do not work. At all.

 

[Sgqvur]

why dont u just write the damage and life of the minion in the tooltip instead of <n00Q:nsko,dmgplus1> etc.

Minion |Level: 1|
Damage: 21-26
Life Points: 400

etc no? : )

 

[Vestras]

why dont u just write the damage and life of the minion in the tooltip instead of <n00Q:nsko,dmgplus1> etc.

Minion |Level: 1|
Damage: 21-26
Life Points: 400

etc no? : )

Because if he changes damage or something, he'll have to change tooltip too.

 

[Sgqvur]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sgqvur View Post
why dont u just write the damage and life of the minion in the tooltip instead of <n00Q:nsko,dmgplus1> etc.

Minion |Level: 1|
Damage: 21-26
Life Points: 400

etc no? : )
Because if he changes damage or something, he'll have to change tooltip too.
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Is that a problem? ^^

 

[evilertoaste]

n00Q is enough. The rest is a reference to the original unit and not needed...

You're probably still out of luck though for your damage tip...
At least, those for min and max damage do not work. At all.

Crap... Well, thanks anyways for pointing both those facts outs.

why dont u just write the damage and life of the minion in the tooltip instead of

The idea was to make it more managable and easier to change. There could be up to 15 levels of this skill and the actual minion data is going to be tweaked/balanced several times I'm sure....Essentially...less work later on
This makes it just about the only non-trigger based skill that I'll have to update manually.

>>>Because if he changes damage or something, he'll have to change tooltip too.

Is that a problem? ^^

As outlined above

 

[salem]

automated tooltip texts don't always work, i learned that the hard way.