Enigma's Black Hole

[hellmonja27]

i can't seem to figure out how the "sucking" effect is made. i'm asking for any idea or even a bit of code on how to trigger it. tnx in advance...

 

[R@d14nc3]

Why don't you download the open DotA to see yourself...

 

[lh2705]

I'll give you a rough idea..
The "hole" is actually a flying unit with locust and invulnerability
When casted, the hole is created at the target location, and periodically picks every unit within an area around it and drags it closer to it..

 

[hellmonja27]

open dota??? where?...

 

[Exide]

A LOT of spells are dummy units with the Locust ability, it seems
(Sorry about my useless post above, I felt I had to point that out, though)

EDIT: Open Dota - I don't know where to get it. Try Googling for it though!

 

[lh2705]

dimon.xgm.ru/opendota

here it is

 

[hellmonja27]

I'll give you a rough idea..
The "hole" is actually a flying unit with locust and invulnerability
When casted, the hole is created at the target location, and periodically picks every unit within an area around it and drags it closer to it..

i've also thought of this. but having problems detecting angle. it's a slide effect and i have no problems about slides. but i need to detect the angle between two points (for example, the angle between unit A and unit B) so i could slide the unit in that direction.

this is probably the only hindrance i have but i've asked the whole question anyway to see if someone has a shortcut in doing this black hole "sucking effect"...

 

[R@d14nc3]

>open dota??? where?...
Read lh2705 post...

 

[hellmonja27]

>open dota??? where?...
www.dimon.xgm.ru/opendota.com

kept redirecting me here: http://xgm.ru/
and i can't read the texts. any ideas?...

EDIT:

i got it, i got it, tnx. i'll check it in a bit...

 

[lh2705]

Theres no www ...

 

[hellmonja27]

there's this "DotA Allstars 6.32 Open" link on the left side but the site seems to take ages to load...

 

[lh2705]

i'll upload it for you then hold on..

 

[Tinki3]

The open DotA's triggers are all in JASS btw; editing them can be very, very hard if you have little skill at using JASS.

 

[lh2705]

http://d.turboupload.com/d/1216447/DotA_Allstars_v6.32b_Open_Objects.w3x.html

Here you go..

 

[hellmonja27]

aw man. i'm not adept in JASS yet. uhm, how to detect angles between points would be nice too...

 

[SFilip]

For pity sakes...don't just suggest someone to download OpenDota and "wow I'm so smart, all of his problems must be solved". Some of the triggers in it are hard to understand to an adept jasser even.
Well anyway although I have absolutely no idea what that spell is and what it does, I recall seeing something called black hole on wc3sear.ch spell section. Do a search and you should find it.

 

[Tinki3]

Get the black hole made by emjlr3 here

 

[MysterySoul]

A LOT of spells are dummy units with the Locust ability, it seems
(Sorry about my useless post above, I felt I had to point that out, though)

Sorry, about offtopic, but uh... dummy untis? locust?

 

[R@d14nc3]

Sorry, about offtopic, but uh... dummy untis? locust?

Off topic:
Dummy units are 'invisible units' that are useful to completion of many abilities.

Locust ability makes units unselectable.

 

[MysterySoul]

Off topic:
Dummy units are 'invisible units' that are useful to completion of many abilities.

Locust ability makes units unselectable.

off topic:
Thanks. And good luck to the project.