Hi there !

I'm working on a new Naruto fighting map since November 2013 and will do my best to make it an extremly attractive game.. However spells aren't always simple to make the way you want.

What I will need is your help (as player or mapmaker) and ideas.

So far, I've finished 5 characters out of 18 and all their spells (that's 63 spells).

My next character I'm working on is Neji and he already has some stuff.

Right now I'm a bit stuck with his Kaiten spell (Rotation) cause I'm not sure of the best way to make it about the damage part (the spell should damage everything that's close to him).

I had first imagined making appear Archons all over Neji to give the spell some damage for few secs. This works fine... except for when units surround already Neji. This way, only few archons are moved to his location but many of them are stuck in the Hidden-create-units-area cause there's no room for them on the grid.

Of course, I could use air units instead of Archons, or combine few Archons with air... But Archons alone should have fitted much better as a visual, so if any of you has an idea about it, I'd be glad.

Maybe you played some Naruto maps where Kaiten/Rotation si made different way and I just don't know about it yet.

I might need help for some other spells later as well, depending on what will result after my tests.

For those who don't know Naruto manga/anime, this is Kaiten

I think your best option would be to use scarabs as a source of the damage. Scarab systems can be a tiny bit random sometimes (you may be able to perfect it), but they shouldn't really be affected by units surrounding the unit, which should be good for your purpose.

Here's a link to using scarabs, or the "Direct Damage System"

The basic idea here is you take computer controlled scarabs from a reaver that is attacking a building (because you cannot create scarabs through triggers), and teleport them to the location you want the damage. You then issue a teleport order once again to the scarabs to unwalkable terrain (water, a location off the map) which will cause them to blow up immediately, at the location where you first teleported them.

You would then just want to make sure your hero is allied to the owner of the scarabs, and the enemy is not, so that the splash damage gets distributed correctly.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Feb 14 2014, 8:10 pm by Leeroy_Jenkins.

Thanks Leeroy

I've read a bit about the Direct Damage System. Never used it, but it might be a good thing indeed!

So if I get it right :

1) I put computer controled Reavers on the map and make them attack (will this work if the reavers are owned by the player himself as well ?)
2) I teleport the Scarabs that are out to a a location I want to damage (=> Neji)
3) I teleport the Scarabs again to a unwalkable location (water...) to make them explode where they first were teleported and do the splash damage

This seems simple so far, I'll have to test it a bit though.

Hmmm, what about if I want to make a larger radius explosion ? Is there a way to control how large the damage area will be (number of scarabs flying around maybe) ?