Screwed up attempt at a leap! Help!

[LordSaddler1]

I wanted to make my own attempt at a leap spell, and its all messed up. It doesnt increase flying animation, moves super slow, only goes about 1/2 the way. Plz. don't say, "Go copy the jump templates from the website!". I want to attempt this to help my understanding of triggers and basics.

Leaping Bound
    Events
        Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Leaping Bound 
    Actions
        Set LB_Caster = (Triggering unit)
        Set LB_Point = (Target point of ability being cast)
        Set LB_Distance = ((Integer((Distance between (Position of LB_Caster) and LB_Point))) + 0)
        Unit - Add classification of A flying unit to LB_Caster
        For each (Integer A) from 1 to (LB_Distance / 50), do (Actions)
            Loop - Actions
                Unit - Pause LB_Caster
                Unit - Move LB_Caster instantly to ((Position of LB_Caster) offset by ((Distance between (Position of LB_Caster) and LB_Point) / 50.00) towards (Angle from (Position of LB_Caster) to LB_Point) degrees)
                Wait 0.01 seconds
                Animation - Change LB_Caster flying height to ((Default flying height of LB_Caster) + 20.00) at 0.00
        Unit - Unpause LB_Caster
        Wait 0.01 seconds
        Animation - Change LB_Caster flying height to (Default flying height of LB_Caster) at 0.00
        Unit - Remove classification of A flying unit from LB_Caster

 

[Cold]

Try replacing classify as flying unit with Unit - Add ability Storm Crow Form and Remove Ability Storm Crow Form to manipulate the flying height.

 

[LordSaddler1]

k, that lifted him, but it wasnt an incline, and was super slow and small (no distance)

 

[Weegee]

For the move distance just increases it to like +5. you dont need all that stuff

 

[Fluffball]

You can't use integers for leaps... The game takes about .2 seconds to register a wait and calculate everything, so you HAVE to use periodic timers, otherwise it won't work. (By the way... I had the same problem.) http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=105114

 

[Jagan]

You're trying to create a leap spell with only one trigger? Not saying you can't, of course, but using a periodic trigger would make it look better in GUI. And the waits in your trigger...let's just say we don't need 'em. Check this out for an elaborate explanation of how the Leap spell in DotA was triggered:

Spoiler

Leap (A0LN)
Based on Windwalk with a 0.01 seconds duration.

When Leap goes into effect, set LeapDistance to 350+50*Leaplvl, then see if you're leaping to the edge of the playable area and if you are, cap LeapDistance to the distance between Mirana and the edge of the map (else you will get fatal errors or total loss of control of your hero like it happened in 6.01 with Tiny's Toss). Now, only if the LeapDistance is bigger than 100 (aka always except when on the edge) add then remove the crow form ability from Mirana, remove her pathing and make her have her walking animation, tell her to "stop", then save "DistanceRemaining" (LeapDistance), "OriginalDistance" (LeapDistance), "Angle" and "Hero" to the cache. Create a new function (1) to be called peiodically every 0.025 seconds, and set "Leap_InAir" to true.

(1): Recovers "Hero" "OriginalDistance" "DistanceRemaining" and "Angle" from the cache, set Height to be (1-DistanceRemaining/OriginalDistance)*400. Then if Height is bigger than 200 then make Height become 400-Height. Set Mirana's fly height to Height capped at 0 (so she doesn't go under earth on the last time), set her X&Y position to be 30 units away from her in "Angle" direction (with the exception that it is capped on being 50 units away from the edge of the map) make her face in the "Angle" direction, save "DistanceRemaining" to the cache, with its value decreased by 20 (hmm she is moved 30 units but DistanceRemaining is lowered only 20 ><), now if Height is lower than 1 and "DistanceRemaining" is not equal to "OriginalDistance", set "InAir" to false, make Mirana once again face in the "Angle" direction, set her animation to stand, restore her pathing, order her to do the order stored (more on this later), do (2) then destroy this trigger.

(2): Counts all allied heroes in a 800 AoE (this is from the spot that you're landing) from Mirana and for each of them: create a dummy unit (e01R) at the center of the map for the Owner of the enum unit, add an Endurance Aura (A0LO) ablity to it and apply a timed life of 10 seconds to it.

The Endurance Aura (A0LO) affects player owned heroes, has an 9999 AoE and gives +4%/+8%/+12%/+16% IMS and IAS.

Ok, since I don't want to explain this with too much detail, as I find this completely unnecesary: Whenever you issue an order to Mirana and "Leap_InAir" is true, save the order you have given to her with the Order Point's X&Y coordinates (if it had a target that was in the ground). Then when she falls from the Leap, make her use the order that was stored while she was in midair.

Since the spell moves you with Position X&Y you CAN cast spells mid Leap and their effect will come out when you're in mid air (very hard to do if you're not host though), but Elune's Arrow will not fire if you cast it to the place backwards to where you're facing (because forcing Mirana to face the spot every 0.025 seconds gives you very little time to turn around to be able to cast it). Casting an Elune's Arrow in the middle of the Leap while in -WTF mode will make Mirana fire two arrows, once for the time you tell her in mid air and the other one by the trigger when she lands. Since she is moved 30 units and "DistanceRemaining" is only lowered 20, this means that she Leaps 50% more units than stated in the tooltip (825 at lvl4).

On the other hand, I remember seeing a Leap spell somewhere on this forum. Might wanna check it out to learn a thing or two.

 

[LordSaddler1]

ok now that the whole For Integer A things fails, how should i do the up and down animation. I don't understand that whole Leap in DotA thing lol, sorry. Oh yea, on more thing, also the thing is targeted with an AoE thing, not just push button.

 

[TyrealFEAR]

Here is a premade system
Thx google u help me soo much maybie he help u too
this is a direct link to the attachment so if u click u c dl window
http://66.7.231.164/attachment.php?attachmentid=30877&d=1198287023

Page its from
http://66.7.231.164/showthread.php?p=848550&fromattachment=848550#848550

 

[LordSaddler1]

k figured it out! thx all