Would you change this for me?.. cause it would make making a spell for it ever so much easier..Cause i'm not exactly great at JASS but i can read most of it.. and understand most of it..I mean this is how you would basically achieve whip skils right?.. or did you use a different method? Also for things like having the full length of the whip dealing dmg i'm totally at a loss of how to do something like that..
I haven't actually implemented the whip (yet), it is just one of the possible applications that I thought of.
The damage along the full length of the whip is quite simple, the udg_hhX/Y/Z arrays are the coordinates of the tentacle. You can just read out the X,Y coordinates and use them as locations to perform small mini AOE nukes. This would practically then deal damage along the length of the whip. (Alternatively, place dummy units with immolation at those locations - updated on each frame.)
Simple really
Regarding using the Wisp update for the other end: Very easy, this part of the code:
// update homuncolus base position
set udg_hhX[0] = x
set udg_hhY[0] = y
set udg_hhZ[0] = z + 100
controls the starting point (the position of the hero). You can just force the position of the end-point in the same way. You just have to make sure that later portions of the code don't override that value again. Simple
Currently neither the Wisp nor the Tentacle actually control their final position, I calculate it and set it according to passive/active state of the tentacle. The relevant bit of code is:
// hero detection or hunting update?
if GetCacheBoolean(CacheOwner(t), "b") then
// update closest enemy hero tracking
set g = GetUnitsInRectAll(GetPlayableMapRect())
set w = null
loop
set v = FirstOfGroup(g)
exitwhen v == null
etc etc...
You can just kill that entire section and replace it with
// update homuncolus base position
set udg_hhX[19] = GetUnitX(wisp)
set udg_hhY[19] = GetUnitY(wisp)
set udg_hhZ[19] = GetUnitFlyHeight(wisp)
(or something like that)
