This is the discussion thread for the tower Blob (1073)

Creator's comments for this tower:
This Tower uses the lifeenergy of the creeps. It isn't finished yet, because the model buggs and the damage get is sometimes incorrect...


I need your help, if you can tell me why the amount of damage add is sometimes incorrect. Also i need some ideas for a better model (this one buggs).
I forgot the damage type (Essence) - will be changed next upload.

Hmm everything in the code seems fine. And about the model, some models can't be used because they have different animations. Either you take another model or you add that model as a doodadd but then the tower won't turn and won't have a attack animation.

You should change the tooltip for more readability to "Every 10th attack, 9% of the enemys maximum life will be added to this towers damage for 10 attacks"

The problem with the Model is just, that the (in the Screen) green water is in the testmap blue -> does not save colors?

There must be some mistake in the code... i sometime get to much or to little bonus damage. Also the "SFX" is not shown.
Maybe i have to use "OnDamage"?

OnDamage would be defintively better but don't forget to add targetcreep.ismaintarget(). And add in the Oncreation event set tower.userreal = 0, maybe there are some bugs because the userreal isn't defined and returns some wrong values.

And about the SFX, maybe your tower model is too small so that the SFX is small and gets covered by your doodads.

Edit: Made some tests and the bonus damage works perfectly, but the function Creep.getBaseHP() returns not the right value. It returns (HP of the creep) / 1.85998 which is really weird (tested it at level 10 bosses, maybe it's another value for non bosses). I think this doesn't happen in the real map but you can multiply the value by 1.85998 to get the max life. About the SFX, try to use an effect instead of SFX and set its lifetime.
Just call Effect.createSimple("model", GetUnitX(creep.getUnit()), GetUnitY(creep.getUnit())).setLifetime(x) or if you want an effect like the one created by SFXOnUnit then try the same thing but use .destroy() instead of .setLifetime() (Not sure if this works).

The tower has been updated to version v2!

Creator's reason for this update:
Better screenshot, fixed various things (.userReal, tooltip, etc.), Essence attack

Ok creep.getBaseHP returns always HP/~1.88(may vary by 0.003 )

And why not the exact HP-value?

Whats the sense? Oo... should i just multiply it now with 1.88?

I don't know why it returns wrong values but i think it should work fine in the real map.

Edit: Just use GetUnitState(creep.getUnit(),UNIT_STATE_MAX_LIFE)

In the API it sais that the Max-Life could be wrong too, because of the HP-Addspells.
Maybe geX can tell us more .

When it would work fine, would it be balanced? I think it's to low, but maybe it is because of the bugg with the wrong BaseHP.

Are there any spells which alter the max hp of a creep?

The tower is good because it doesn't need any damage oils only attackspeed oils.

Edit: I have searched everywhere in the test map and everything seems fine. I don't know why the creeps spawn with too much HP. The data in the object editor matches with the data in the trigger editor

So my code is correct?

Then I just need a better Model, but i have no idea what i could use... I think it would look ugly without attack animation... so you got another idea?

Only the water is wrong ?

Yess... and maybe i'll make upgrades "Greater Blob", then i'll need something to make it look better .

Yes only the water is wrong

I have no idea why the water is blue. About the other members just make them bigger and add some bubbles or add some new doodads which stuck in the blob

Edit: Did you use this model for the water "Abilities\\Spells\\NightElf\\MoonWell\\MoonWellTarget.mdl" ?