Flash 'nades!

[Narks]

Ok, I've made a flash 'nade ability based off Silence - basically, it has 11 levels (unit, not hero), which causes all organic units caught in the AoE to have a 90% chance to miss in an attack. I also want it to cause the victim('s) screens to go white, but I am not quite sure how to go about this. Any help?

The problem is, that each level of the ability, causes the duration to increase. This might be a problem.

 

[Jarwan]

the funny, but very buggy, and very easily broken way would be to make a white area on the map and using triggers force the targets to look at it

allrite that maybe werent to smart...but i cant think of anything better :banghead:

 

[srv]

For the 90% chance to miss you would want a trigger to create dummy units that cast Curse, something like this:

Event - A unit starts the effect of an ability
Condition - (Ability being cast) equal to Flash Nade (or whatever the name is)
Action - 
Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within [B]X [/B]range of (Target POint of ability being cast) matching ((Matching Unit) is an enemy) equal to true and [B](insert other things here such as dead/alive/organic)[/B]
Unit - Create 1 DummyCaster for (Owner of (Triggering Unit) at (Position of (Target point of ability being cast) facing default building facing degrees
Unit - Add FlashNadeBlindEffect to (Last Created Unit)
Unit - Set level of FlashNadeBlindEffect for (Last Created Unit) to (Level of Flash Nade for (Triggering Unit))
Unit - Add a 3.00 second Generic expiration timer to (Last Created Unit)
Unit - Order (Last Created Unit) to Undead Banshee - Curse (picked unit)

The FlashNadeBlindEffect needs to have 11 levels which matches with the Flash Nade skill, and the X range is equal to the radius of the spell (use arithmetic if the radius increases per level)

For the White Screen, you can use Cinematics - Advance Filter and use White Mask, but this applies the effect to ALL players...
I have no idea how to limit the effect to certain players only.

 

[Andrewgosu]

Well, for the flashing part, you can use the cinematic fade filters, but yeah, they are for all players. (Atleast in GUI, I think).

Actions
    Cinematic - Fade out and back in over [COLOR="Red"](1.00 + ((Real((Level of (Ability being cast) for (Triggering unit)))) / 2.00))[/COLOR] seconds using texture White Mask and color (0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%) with 0.00% transparency

Level - Time
1 - 1.5 seconds
2 - 2 seconds
3 - 2.5 seconds

and ect.

 

[Darthfett]

This has been asked plenty of times. You should search next time.

http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=31180&highlight=Flashbang

 

[c-series]

AFAIK ... you can use

Player Group - Pick every player in (All players matching ((Owner of ([i]unit that caught in flash[/i])) Equal to (Matching player))) and do (Actions)
    Loop - Actions

and use cinematic fade like andrewgosu type earlier... i've tried something likethis before .... and it can "blind" the specified player i'll post the trigger if i still have the maps ...

ok here the codes

Shadow Flare
    Events
        Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Shadow Flare [Kael]
    Actions
        Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within 450.00 of (Position of (Target unit of ability being cast)) matching ((((Matching unit) is A structure) Equal to False) and (((Matching unit) is A Hero) Equal to False))) and do (Actions)
            Loop - Actions
                Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the origin of (Picked unit) using Abilities\Spells\Undead\DeathCoil\DeathCoilSpecialArt.mdl
                Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage (Picked unit), dealing 450.00 damage of attack type Spells and damage type Magic
        Set ShadowFlare = (All players matching ((Owner of (Target unit of ability being cast)) Equal to (Matching player)))
        Player Group - Pick every player in ShadowFlare and do (Cinematic - Fade out over 1.00 seconds using texture Black Mask and color (0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%) with 0.00% transparency)
        Wait 4.00 seconds
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                PicActivated[(Player number of (Owner of (Target unit of ability being cast)))] Equal to False
            Then - Actions
                Player Group - Pick every player in ShadowFlare and do (Cinematic - Fade in over 5.00 seconds using texture Black Mask and color (0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%) with 0.00% transparency)
            Else - Actions
                Do nothing

and uhh.. watch out for leaks .... this trigger belong to my old maps ... well i think you got the picture ....

 

[Narks]

Thanks very much, I think the last trigger would be good for it.

And by the way, you can set silence to make units miss...

 

[srv]

*Checks WE for silence... :banghead:

Whoops...