Headshot trigger?

[rotten]

No, not like dota's sniper, what a lousy hero that is :thdown:

Anyway, how do I make a trigger that displays "Headshot!" and maybe a Headshot sound whenever a unit is killed from more than, say, 50% hp, or 500 hp, in one instance of damage?

 

[Igor_Z]

Anyway, how do I make a trigger that displays "Headshot!" and maybe a Headshot sound whenever a unit is killed from more than, say, 50% hp, or 500 hp, in one instance of damage?

Something like his ultimate "Assasinate" but to say and to display "Headshot" if the target dies?

 

[X-maul]

You might need to explain a bit further what you want to use it for and in what type of map you're using it.

You mean if a unit use an ability on another unit, and kills it from a certain distance there will pop up a line which says "HEADSHOT". or simply just by a normal attack?

 

[Trollvottel]

Hes not asking about distance. He is asking for a trigger that displays HEADSHOT if a unit, which had like 50% of it's max hp, dies from one instance of damage.

The "Unit takes damage"-event triggers before a unit actually takes damage so you can exploit that by checking the damage delt and checking the unit's current hp. The rest shoult be trivial.

 

[sentrywiz]

So why hasn't anyone made the triggers yet?

Yeah, you need to say whether this is a spell or plain auto-attack. Or it doesn't matter?

 

[Trollvottel]

So why hasn't anyone made the triggers yet?

Yeah, you need to say whether this is a spell or plain auto-attack. Or it doesn't matter?

because its quite simple...

• Headshot
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • 'IF'-Conditions
        • (Damage taken) greater than or equal to (Live of (Triggering unit))
        • (Life of (Triggering unit)) greater than or equal to 500.00
      • 'THEN'-Actions
        • Floating Text - Create floating text that reads HEADSHOT at (Position of (Triggering unit)) with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%), and 0.00% transparency
      • 'ELSE'-Actions

of course you have to add the event "Unit takes damage" manually because its a specific unit event.

 

[rotten]

Add the event manually? What's that mean? Because if it's a line of custom script, I don't really know how to write one for this thing, or any other to be honest. And those seem to work only for Actions.

Yeah, that's exactly the part I can't get my head around - what event to use to be able to test for damage. A specific unit event won't cut it, there may be 200 units or even more in play on my map at any time.

 

[Sirroelivan]

You could use a trigger to add new events to the Headshot trigger. One to add all initial units and one to add every new unit that enters the map.

(Don't know if there's a limit on the number of events a certain trigger can have though.)

• Init
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Unit_Group = (Units in (Playable map area))
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in Unit_Group and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Trigger - Add to Headshot <gen> the event (Unit - (Picked unit) Takes damage)
    • Custom script: call DestroyGroup(udg_Unit_Group)

• New Unit
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit enters (Playable map area)
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Trigger - Add to Headshot <gen> the event (Unit - (Triggering unit) Takes damage)

 

[rotten]

Nice, but won't this cause obscene amounts of lag?

I already have more than a few triggers, and my computer is very outdated.

I can't play Caesar IV on it, that's how outdated it is.

 

[Jedi]

I don't think your computer is worse than mine It won't cause lag.But you can use GDD. http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=137957

 

[rotten]

Well, it works so far! Thanks Sirroelivan and Trollvottel.

Jedi: Nice link, but it looks frightfully complicated. BTW, my pc is an Athlon 1600+ at 1.4 GHZ (used to be 1.7) with 0.75 GB Ram, 128 MB Nvidia video card (dunno the exact model right now) and a 120 GB SATA-1 hard disk with 8 MB cache and an increasing number of bad sectors

 

[Jedi]

It looks like my pc with +40 gb hard disk

Using GDD should be easy, have you tried ?