Spell Help!

[Spray-]

Heya guys! Im doing a spell that resembles the Spirit of Redemption (priest holy talent spell) from WoW. Basically when the Hero dies, it turns into a different unit, is invurneble and can cast any spells free of cost for a few seconds and then dying properly.

Everything works fine except the "Event" to activate the spell. Im not letting the Hero actually DIE to actvate it, cause that would F* my hero revival triggers, so ive done this:

Events
    Unit - Priest 0016 <gen>'s life becomes Less than or equal to 50.00
Conditions
    (Priest 0016 <gen> has buff Brilliance Aura) Equal to True
If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
    If - Conditions
        (Level of Spirit of Redemption  for Priest 0016 <gen>) Equal to 1
    Then - Actions
        Unit - Pause Priest 0016 <gen>
        Unit - Make Priest 0016 <gen> Invulnerable
        Animation - Play Priest 0016 <gen>'s death animation
        Wait 1.33 seconds
        Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the origin of Priest 0016 <gen> using Abilities\Spells\Human\Resurrect\ResurrectTarget.mdl
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (140.00%, 140.00%, 140.00%) of its original size
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (180.00%, 180.00%, 180.00%) of its original size
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (220.00%, 220.00%, 220.00%) of its original size
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (260.00%, 260.00%, 260.00%) of its original size
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (300.00%, 300.00%, 300.00%) of its original size
        Unit - Add Divinity  to Priest 0016 <gen>
        Set SpiritOfRedON = True
        Animation - Play Priest 0016 <gen>'s stand animation
        Set SpiritEffect = (Last created special effect)
        Unit - Unpause Priest 0016 <gen>
        Wait 10.00 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (260.00%, 260.00%, 260.00%) of its original size
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (220.00%, 220.00%, 220.00%) of its original size
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (180.00%, 180.00%, 180.00%) of its original size
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (140.00%, 140.00%, 140.00%) of its original size
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Animation - Change Priest 0016 <gen>'s size to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) of its original size
        Wait 0.10 seconds
        Unit - Remove Divinity  from Priest 0016 <gen>
        Unit - Make Priest 0016 <gen> Vulnerable
        Unit - Kill Priest 0016 <gen>
        Special Effect - Destroy SpiritEffect
        Set SpiritOfRedON = False

The SpiritofRedON is used for another trigger that puts the Hero's mana to 100%.

Basically the question is: Because some.. attacks/spells could get the Hero from 100 to 0, thus not triggering the Trigger, how would i bypass this? Is there a way to "Block" the excessive damage dealt?

Thanks in advance

 

[jig7c]

first of all you don't have any actions... j/k

for the event, try using a percentage of life, so when the preist's life falls below 5% of his hp, this trigger gets started...

 

[emilemil1]

Make it detect when it dies, then add a set of conditions on the revive trigger.

That would work right?

 

[jig7c]

you might have to create another trigger that'll link the revive trigger, and this ability trigger... and then make it so that the revive trigger recognizes it

in your ability trigger, make the event a unit dies
and then set the first action to set HeroisDead = False


a unit dies
dying unit has the buff spirit of redemtion
wait 10 seconds,
set HeroisDead = True
if
set heroisdead = true
then add dying unit to revive trigger
else
do nothing

 

[Spray-]

How can a dying unit have buffs?

 

[emilemil1]

Use the die event!

As the first action u use something like Set Dead = False (make it default true so it doesnt screw up before the spell is used for the first time)
As the second you use a reviving set of actions (leak free ofc)
Make the hero revive instantly and pause as you wanted
Then you run all the normal actions.
When the spirit dies you kill the hero too and Set Dead = True

As the first action of the revive (and every trigger checking for death), make it a wait action, maybe 0.01 seconds is enough for the spell trigger to set the Dead variable
Finaly a condition:

If Triggering Unit equal to Priest 0016.

Then

If Dead equal to True

Then

(execute normal revive actions)

Else

Do Nothing

Else

(execute normal revive actions)

It looks long but should not take more than 5 min to do.

 

[Darthfett]

Try using the Unit - <Unit> takes damage event. (If you have to, use the Trigger - Add Event to use a variable for the unit).

This actually fires before the unit takes damage. This way, you can compare the unit's health with the amount of damage it is about to take, and if he/she's about to die, give it invulnerable/unlimited mana.

Also, Spray- is right. When a unit dies, it loses any buffs it has, even before the trigger fires.

Damage detection is just about the best way to deal with it, as it avoids the actual death. If you just use (Life of unit) becomes less than or equal to *amount*, units can jump past the amount (like 5%) straight into death, if they fight a strong enough enemy. I am not sure, but the "A unit dies" event may fire before this event does.

 

[Spray-]

Thanks for all the help :3

 

[emilemil1]

The only downside with using damage detection is that it takes up more space to MUI (each tracked unit takes up space i guess), Unit Dies is global and checks all at the same time.

But since u only have one it would not be a problem otherwise i guess tons of events would slow the execution down? Or am I totaly off track here?