SC2Mapster

So this has a little bit of a data element to it, but not much, is mostly all triggers and me showcasing my talent to use them poorly. Before I show what I've been attempting to use, will explain what I'm wanting to do.

I want a unit to attack with a dummy effect, which gets spotted by a trigger, which in turn sets a custom damage effect to 10 damage, and applies that damage to the target. Really complicated way of making a guy do 10 damage I know, but the idea is to be able to give his target dodge/block/riposte chance and that sort of good thing in the future to decide the outcome of that attack.

Took a raynor marine, gave his weapon an Effect: Apply Behavior which does absolutely nothing, is just a dummy effect for the trigger editor to spot. My favorite dummies are Larry, Curly, and Moe, so we will just call this effect Larry. From there I have what is detailed in the picture below: (Curly is my damage effect, and no don't use Moe...)

I have tried to use some older forum posts to tackle this to no avail, linked below

Quote from ProxyTooMuch: Go

@Aztron: Go

You need a dummy damage effect and use the Catalog Field Set function. Here's an example from my map where I want to reflect damage back at the attacker. ReflectiveArmor is the dummy damage effect and the variable Reflective is how many levels of that ability the hero has.

Variable - Set Damage = (0.04 * ((Real(Reflective)) * (Triggering damage amount)))
Catalog - Set value of Effects "ReflectiveArmor" "Amount" for player (Owner of (Triggering unit)) to (String(Damage) with Any Precision decimal places)
Environment - Create Reflective Armor on (Damaging unit) from (Triggering unit)

Quote from RileyStarcraft: Go

It's exactly the same path used to reference data fields in text objects (via the <d> tag.) The best way to find out a path is to extract the raw XML files because sometimes the field names don't match whats in the editor. As a rule of thumb it's <Type>,<Identifier>,<Field>. Fields in structs are separated with a period and values in arrays are in square brackets. For example:

Behavior,MyBehavior,DamageResponse.Chance

Effect,MyDamageEffect,AttributeBonus[Armored]

When using the set catalog field of course you don't need to include the first part (the type) as that's a separate parameter.

I'm sure it is something simple I'm doing wrong, just can't seem to figure it out....

Since patch 1.2? there is a trigger function called UnitDamage to cause damage to a target unit, you don't need the catalog stuff. You can specify an amount and a damage effect. The effect sets all the other settings, however the damage amount of the effect will either be ignored, or the trigger amount will be added, not sure.
Also, I usually use an empty set effect instead of an apply behavior; just because :D

@Kueken531: Go

Found the UnitDamage function you were talking about, tried it with Curly and Larry, I changed Larry to be a set effect just to be certain, still nothing. It isn't giving me the error now at least, but it isn't doing anything to the unit I am shooting.

To be a little more exact:

Deal damage using Curly on (Damaging unit) from (Triggering Unit) with 12.0 extra damage.

You are reacting to a Unit executes effect event, not a Unit takes damage one. You need to use Effect Unit -> Source or Target

@Kueken531: Go

Ah, duh, my bad on that. Assumed attacking/damaging since the effect is coming from a weapon. Got that working now at least, apparently my case statement is broken though, had to move it out of there for it to work. Any thoughts on what I goofed on that? Is the same as in the picture above.

Thanks a ton for the help so far!

Edit: Nevermind, it is the same issue, I was doing the attacking unit again instead of the source... /facepalm, this should really free me up to design the combat system how I want it now however, thanks!