fireball with flame strike effect

[Tar-Quaeron]

Hello,

I want to make a spell which acts exactly like flame strike (dmg, AoE cast, etc) but where the casting unit throws a fireball (projectile like troll priest, archmage, etc) at the target point before the art, effects of flame strike start. Here is the trigger I tried but it doesn't work, I do not know why. I hope you will be able to understand the badly translated French. I use map editor in French.

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  • Evénements
    • Unité - A unit Initie l'effet d'une compétence
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Egal Ã_ Boule de feu (dummy)
  • Actions
    • Unité - Create 1 Dummy (ground, non-fantôme) for Joueur 1 (Rouge) at (Target point of ability being cast) facing 0.00 degrees
    • Groupe unité - Add (Last created unit) to dummybouledeuattacked
    • Unité - Add a 1.50 second Générique expiration timer to (Last created unit)
    • Unité - Create 1 attack Boule de feu dummy for Joueur 1 (Rouge) at (Position of (Triggering unit)) facing (Target point of ability being cast)
    • Unité - Add a 1.50 second Générique expiration timer to (Last created unit)
    • Groupe unité - Pick every unit in dummybouledeuattacked and do (Unité - Order (Last created unit) to Attaque une fois (Picked unit))
    • Unité - Add Boule de feu (dégats) to (Last created unit)
    • Unité - Set level of Boule de feu (dégats) for (Last created unit) to (Level of Boule de feu (dégats) for (Triggering unit))
    • Unité - Order (Last created unit) to Mage de sang humain - Choc de flammes (Target point of ability being cast)
    • Custom script: call DestroyGroup(udg_dummybouledeuattacked)

Both the attacked and attacking dummy are non-locust.

 

[Slapshot136]

instead of attacking a unit, maybe it would be better to attack-ground?

 

[Tar-Quaeron]

Yeah it works with attack ground. The reason it didn't work with attack unit is that first of all the attacked dummy was one of my units, and that I think the none.mdl art file does not allow you to target the unit. Thanks.

 

[canons200]

so, a bit understand =.=' i can barely see a weak point there. never mind i help you fix the special effect 1.

your question has few solution.
do you know you can create a special effect via trigger? so just create a special effect at the target point of ability cast. and remove it later.

or check you ability condition, make sure the buff and effect of your spell are there.

 

[Tar-Quaeron]

It works really nicely when I create a dummy demolisher to attack ground, and I can coordinate it really nicely with the flame strike it casts so that the overall effect is pretty cool. But somehow there seems to be a problem. When I cast it on nothing, or just 1-2 units, it's fine, but when I cast it on a lot of units, the game just breaks and frozen throne shuts down. Is that because it can't "attack ground" when there are actual enemy units all around ?

Cannons 2000: I would love to create a special effect. The thing is I don't know how to create a special effect that actually shows a projectile flying from my caster to the target point of ability being cast. I could create a projectile as an object, and make it move in an arc, etc. like Daelin explained, I think in one of his tutorials. But that seems pretty complicated. Any help, please ?

It's not so much the effect that's important, but I just want to understand exactly what's wrong, so I can improve my world-editor capacities.

 

[canons200]

regarding the phrase "special effect that actually shows a projectile flying from my caster to the target point of ability being cast" that is missile art.

never mind the same i help you to fix the trigger first, i don't have WE in hand now but i will give you briedly. i start in action since you have made the event and the condition.
if you see i write Set =, meaning i am using variable

action
set P_1 = position of target unit of ability being cast
special effect, create a special effect at P_1 using ability (choose the flame strike effect)
set SE_1 = Last created special effect
Wait (your desired time) seconds
special effect, destroy SE_1

 

[Tar-Quaeron]

But wait, that's not the problem. Flame strike effect is ok. The thing is, there is no projectile art allowed in flame strike, and I can't find any spell such that a big fireball missile art come hurling towards no specific unit and causes a flame of strike effect/damage.

 

[canons200]

oh, the flaming strike is the missile art. Just this missile art don't have the ball shooting to the target. So what you can do is to do as below

set P_1 = position of owner
set U_1 = target unit of ability being cast
create a dummy for owner at P_1 (Make a dummy and add your desired missile art under combat attack 1 - projectile art, set base cooldown to 1 or higher, and enable attack 1)
set U_2 = last created unit
add 1 second generic experation time to U_2
order U_2 to attack U_1

because dummy exists 1 second and dummy base cooldown is 1 second or higher, so after the dummy attack 1 time. the dummy will disappear

 

[Tar-Quaeron]

By the way, for anybody reading this later, I think the problem was the acquisition range of the dummy attacker. I didn't test it, but I definitely didn't change the acquisition range from the footman I used. So it probably wasn't able to fire because of that.

 

[Bogrim]

Give the unit the Sphere ability, and change the missile art to a fireball.