Customs spell from DoTA

[Fulgore]

I want to make make the ability Elune's Arrow from the Priestess of the Moon in Defense of the Ancients (DoTA). I've very unskilled at anything this custom. I'm essentially a noobie, I know how to make custom units/heros/items, changes the stats on already made skills a bit, and some minior cinematics stuff. Really nothing fantastic.

Basically I want to know if anyone could guide me through step by step on how I would make this spell.

Remember, I literally know ziltch about anything more advanced than the editor, such as JASS, which I know what it is, but know nothing about how it works or is used. Speak to me as if I was 10 lol

 

[Dinowc]

if you're really a newb in triggering then you shouldn't go that far... better start with something simpler
anyway you can use the search button
there are many posts about that

EDIT: are you using GUI or JASS?

 

[Fulgore]

Well I'm just a total newbie with JASS and GUI. I don't know where to start or what to do at all. I know I'll need to use either to make this ability, but no knowledge how. If the arrow is too complicated for a starter then perhaps someone could guide me with a practice spell maybe? I'd still need it in very simple terms of course.

 

[WolfieeifloW]

You want to actually make the spell yourself?
If you don't care, there's multiple Elune's Arrow spells in the Tutorials and Resources section.

 

[iPeez]

>Well I'm just a total newbie with JASS and GUI. I don't know where to start or what to do at all
Wowow, chill. Don't start with Eluna's arrow. Learn the basics!

Tutorials

 

[Lumograph090]

Also do a search next time.

http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=69616

 

[Fulgore]

Well I searched through the threads already, and did find a tutorial, but it was far too complicated. I don't understand any of the terms used. I tried reading a guide for JASS at this link http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=116495

But I still got lost after the first few setences. I guess it takes some special already known knowledge to get anything.

I'm sure if it's the way people explain it or what. I mean, if you ask someone how to reinstall a operating system in a computer and they didn't know how, you couldn't just tell them "Take your XP Disc and boot up your computer with it. Then when it finishes loading you must select the correct installation path to create your new XP installation....blah blah blah" If I talked like that to people I know that have small computing skills, their heads would spin. For those people I explain all the parts I'm talking about, even the simplest, such as booting up and what its doing and why it does it. Not technical mumbo jumbo terms either.

 

[Fulgore]

Shall I give up? I don't think anyone can offer the help thatt I'm looking for.

 

[Unclesatan]

There's plenty of basic tutorials for GUI.

http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/triggers.php
http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/variables.php
http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/cat_usersubmit.php?view=28117
http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/cat_usersubmit.php?view=38947

Work on one after the other, in order, or you won't understand any of it.

Variables are a VERY important part of World Editor triggering, so you need to learn about them before anything else.

Don't give up. Even simple experimenting in World Editor by yourself can be fruitful. GUI is incredibly simple to start out in, so just look around and try to make some simple things.

 

[vypur85]

This and this might help a little.