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@Reaperguyver: Go

Not sure if this is what you want, but someone's already made a skill similar sounding to what you want for me during the beta.

http://forums.sc2mapster.com/resources/project-workplace/3736-making-free-abilities-example-ability-thread/?page=4#p73

Not sure if it still works or not, since I've been working on another since the game went live, but therey ou go.

Quote from Forge_User_59026135: Go

Got it, a debuff, should be possible with a buff behavior modification-combat fraction 0.5

Bleh. That worked. Thanks for the help. I thought that would change the attacking unit's attack fraction, but it obviously didn't.

Thanks again.

@serardt With the game I'm making it wouldn't make sense to have it look at a skill first. I've gotten back into working on my past project: http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/working-title-minion-assault/

@b0ne123: Go

thanks for the reply.

No, that's not what I'm looking for.

What I need is so that every time my unit hits an enemy, he lowers THAT enemy's damage by half.

I can't seem to find out how to cause a unit to do half damage to enemies he hits with his normal attack.. what exactly do you edit?

@Slypoos: Go

So I'm just trying to figure out what you did here.. where is the "TSLife (Unknown)"? Obviously, this is where it prioritizes the targets with lowest hp, right? What tab is it under? And is it editable at all?

@Slypoos: Go

So, all you made were some effects, a behavior, a button and the prayer of mending weapon?

@Slypoos: Go

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Thanks so much for this. It doesn't need to be flashy at all, it's perfect. Thanks so much!

I have an idea for you, but it seems like this would be a HUGE time involvement judging by the tutorial to make a chain lightning effect without using missiles...

So, basically, I want a Prayer of Mending spell from World of Warcraft's Priest class (in case you don't know, it's a spell buff that stays on the target for 30 seconds or until the person takes damage (from direct sources), then bounces to another target and repeats 5 times). Difference for me, I don't want it to go off when the target gets hit, but rather just bounce 5 times. The spell should be able to hit any previous target any number of times, but must bounce first to another allied target. So, if there's only 2 people standing close enough, it can hit one target 3 times, and the other one 2 times. Target priority is to bounce to the person with the lowest health first, then go from there.

You're sure to be mentioned in credits on any project I finally get around to putting it in. :P

I'm going to try to ask this as best as I can..

First of all, I've got a trigger that causes the computer to build a random upgrade every ~2 minutes of game time (time is not accurate, and sometimes it researches after 20 seconds, but that's not the issue). What I'd like to know, is how can I set up my trigger so that the computer doesn't try to build an upgrade that it already has?

Trigger 1:

Level 1 Upgrades P1
    Events
        Timer - Every 120.0 seconds of Game Time
    Local Variables
    Conditions
        (Player 1 Minerals) >= 10
        (Controller of player 2) == User
    Actions
        General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
            If
                (Protoss Ground Weapons Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 1
                (Protoss Ground Armors Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 1
                (Protoss Shields Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 1
                (Protoss Air Weapons Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 1
                (Protoss Air Armors Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 1
            Then
                Trigger - Turn Level 2 Upgrades P1 On
                Trigger - Turn (Current trigger) Off
            Else
                General - While (Conditions) are true, do (Actions)
                    Conditions
                        Or
                            Conditions
                                (Protoss Ground Weapons Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 0
                                (Protoss Ground Armors Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 0
                                (Protoss Shields Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 0
                                (Protoss Air Weapons Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 0
                                (Protoss Air Armors Level 1 count for 1, counting Complete) == 0
                    Actions
                        Variable - Set UpgradeLvL[1] = Forge - Upgrade Ground Weapons Level 1
                        Variable - Set UpgradeLvL[2] = Forge - Upgrade Ground Armor Level 1
                        Variable - Set UpgradeLvL[3] = Forge - Upgrade Shields Level 1
                        Variable - Set UpgradeLvL[4] = Cybernetics Core - Upgrade Air Weapons Level 1
                        Variable - Set UpgradeLvL[5] = Cybernetics Core - Upgrade Air Armor Level 1
                        Variable - Set RandomUpgrade = (Random integer between 1 and 5)
                        Variable - Set UpgradeLvL[6] = UpgradeLvL[RandomUpgrade]
                        Data Table - Save UpgradeLvL[6] as "RandomUpgrade" in the Local data table
                        Unit - Order Unit to (gv_upgradeLvL[6]) (Replace Existing Orders)
                        Trigger - Turn (Current trigger) Off
                        General - Wait 120.0 Real Time seconds
                        Trigger - Turn (Current trigger) On

Trigger 2 (and 3) looks exactly the same, only it's level 2 (and 3) of all the upgrades. So, how can I make it so it won't try to build the same upgrade more than once? Obviously with this, it causes the randomness to occasionally try to build the same thing again, which becomes a bit of a problem around the last 2 upgrades.

I've had this question myself, and others have as well on various forums. So I thought I'd centralize all the answers in to one tutorial. This doesn't actually change the command card (since there is no way to via triggers (yet?)), but rather gives the illusion that it does, which is just as good.

In this example, I will be swapping between 2 sets of units to train from my Nexus.

First, you just need to set all of your abilities on command card page 1. In my example, I have Protoss units as the default buttons, and Terran units as the alternate:

Next, you need to have a button that swaps between the units:

I'm not showing all of the units, because that would require too many pictures. The idea is the same for all of them; however with unit training, you have to disable the entire ability to train units. Thus if you only want 1 unit disabled, you would have to create a new train ability for each unit individually (of course, in the case of abilities that you have created yourself, disabling just that ability alone works fine).

Finally, just set up your trigger like so:

making sure that you've set a global variable into an array (only global array variable works for some reason, and local anything doesn't. I'm not sure why), and there you have it. What this does, is it allows the player to swap back and forth between the unit builds. Normally, when you swap to command card page 2, it swaps back to page one after:

1) selecting an ability, or

2) when you select a different unit and back

This video displays the working trigger in action, swapping between the unit choices and staying that way even when you select another unit and back.

If anyone needs clarification on anything, feel free to ask.

Quote from frostmanx: Go

That's exactly what

Variable - Set UnitLife = ((Triggering unit) Life (Current))


does. UnitLife is the name of the variable where the unit's life will stored, ((Triggering unit) Life (Current)) can be selected via Unit - Unit Property. This function returns a real value, so you will need to call
Conversion - Convert Real to Integer -  ((Triggering unit) Life (Current))

How do you get the triggering unit part? Only thing that shows up for me is triggering player. Is there any other way to get a unit's health to put into a variable?

So I was just wondering if it was at all possible to remove the "select target" on the command card when you choose to use an ability (or attack)? I want to keep the command card on page 1, instead of having it show "select target" with the cancel button. Reason I want this, is because I want to be able to swap to another ability while still targeting with one.

@Etravex: Go

Thanks.

As a side note, your response helped me complete an ability I was conflicted about. So, thanks on two fronts.

Alright, I figured out how to remove the stun and make it into like a pulsating ability.

Just set 2 search effects to the persistent effect, and have the second search remove the buff. Works like a charm.

Video demonstration: (still processing)

@Etravex: Go

Nice vid.

I meant can you show the work you've done, all the behavior/effect setups and all that?