Help with custom ability please.

[Finner]

I don't really have much experience with the WE, so i migh be going off in the wrong direction here.

My ability is bases off cleaving attack, but intead of doing a straight amount of damage, the untis that were in the area of effect would be poisoned.

This is how i tried to go about it:
I created an ability off cleaving attack called Decomp Flag (the ability is called decomposition) I made it do 0 damage but attached a buff called decomp flag to the targets that should be effected. Then I tried to make a trigger that would search for any unit with the decomp flag buff on it, removed that buff, and then poison it.

I ran into a lot of problems, I'm not even sure this is the right way to go about it. I'm only a novice programmer, so if anyone could help me get this fixed I would be thankful.

 

[Regalth]

Personally, I'd go along a slightly different path. Use the Generic unit - Unit Attacks, set the condition Attacking Unit has ability (Decomposition) equal to True, and set the action to:
Pick every unit in (Units within 300 of (Attacked Unit)) and do actions:
Create one Decomp Dummy Unit for owner of (Attacking Unit) at Position of
(Picked Unit).
Order (Last created unit) to cast Undead - Unholy Frenzy on (Picked Unit
Wait 1 second(s)
Pick every unit in (Units of type (Decomp Dummy Unit)) matching condition (Owner of Matching Unit equal to Owner of Attacking Unit) and do actions:
Remove (Picked Unit)


To go along with this, create a Decomp Dummy Unit, give it the Locust ability, and give it a custom ability based off of Unholy Frenzy. Set the attack speed modifier to 0, set the damage per second to whatever you want, set the allowed targets to Enemy, Organic. Change the buff/animation to whatever. Make sure to set the model file for this to very small (shift-click the Art - Scaling Value and set it to 0.01 or something), so that people don't see it, and set shadow to None. This won't work properly if multiple heroes on the same team have the attack. In that case, eliminate everything after the Wait 1 second(s) command, and create a new trigger that detects when the Unholy Frenzy ability is cast, and kills the casting unit.

 

[SilverHawk]

Off which ability did you base it? For a start, it should be based off of one similar to the ability you are looking to make.

 

[Finner]

Bases Ability

Thank you for your help Regalth, I didn't implement your suggestion, because i realized it would be to powerful for my map. I based it off of Cleaving Attack, sliver hawk.

I have another question. What if intead of the spell being used every attack, I wanted to make it an activated spell, that would "charge" the heroes weapon with poison, and the next attack the aoe poison would go off, and the heroes weapon would be uncharged. Also the "charging" process would take a few second where the hero could not move or attack. Thanks for help in advance.

 

[DM Cross]

I have another question. What if intead of the spell being used every attack, I wanted to make it an activated spell, that would "charge" the heroes weapon with poison, and the next attack the aoe poison would go off, and the heroes weapon would be uncharged. Also the "charging" process would take a few second where the hero could not move or attack. Thanks for help in advance.

You would have to give it a mana cost, change the 'activation string' and the 'charging' would probably mean an increased casting time...

 

[SilverHawk]

I have an ability kind of like this in my map, so I'll tell you what I did. I based it off of an ability with no target (like Divine Shield, for instance), and set the duration to 1 billion (you need to shift-double click). Change the buff to something that says something like "The next attack will do poison damage", then manually do the rest through triggers (also remove the buff manually).

 

[Finner]

Divine Shield

Ok silver hawk, I made a new ability bases off divine shield like you said, i maxed the duration, and made it give me a buff called Decomp. But it still makes me invulnerable, and i can't find a field to deactivate that aspect of divine shield, everything works well so far, i haven't attempted the trigger yet, but I want this fixed before I move on, thanks.

 

[Finner]

Trigger Trouble

Ok so i started messing around with the trigger for this, and there is no "Generic Unit event - Unit attacks" I can't find it anywhere so i'm not sure how to make this trigger.

 

[SilverHawk]

The event is "Unit is attacked." not "Unit attacks.", which is probably why you cant find it. Also, you need to pick another passive ability I realized, because Divine Shield probably does not have the "Data" fields, which you need. Try the ability Wind Walk instead. Hope that answers everything.