It didn't seem to work for it self, it certinaly didn't stop it autocasting imedatly when I was testing it.

Also its a value rather than a percent.

HelioforgeSent Today, 13:59
I'm not sure what the ability looks like, but there was a post a while back that shows all the lists of types that abilities can have, (I think it was Silveressa of Bailnight who compiled it), the lists tell which types go in which places and is immensely useful)... ...I'll see if I can dig it up, but I won't be on the net tomorrow, so you will find it faster here on the boards...

Even with such a list, you will still have to find an existing stock SINS ability that has some of the words you need , which saves a lot of time...


can anyone help me find this?

heh I think I almost solved it, it seems to autocast on the amount you set in the
onlyAutoCastWhenTargetShieldDamageExceedsAmount
Level:0 200.000000
bit now, but it can be cast on another ship by the player - which dosn't seem like you would want that but I don't think you can stop the player manualy doing abilites.

The diffrnce is the ApplyTargettedBuffToSelf rather than ApplyBuffToSelf.

This seems to activate the "onlyAutoCastWhenTargetShieldDamageExceedsAmount" bit.

It needs a target filter and a range but since I sent the range to 0 it can't target other ships that I've seen.


If I was doing this I would make 3 versions of the ability, small, medium and large for the various shield sizes. But thats just me.

The file looks like this for me:
EDIT: removed two unessesary constraint/AIusetime

TXT
entityType "Ability"
buffInstantActionType "ApplyTargettedBuffToSelf"
instantActionTriggerType "AlwaysPerform"
buffType "BuffShieldTest"
targetFilter
numOwnerships 1
ownership "Friendly"
numObjects 2
object "CapitalShip"
object "Frigate"
numConstraints 0
range
Level:0 0.000000
Level:1 0.000000
Level:2 0.000000
effectInfo
effectAttachInfo
attachType "Center"
smallEffectName ""
largeEffectName ""
soundID ""
needsToFaceTarget FALSE
canCollideWithTarget TRUE
moveThruTarget FALSE
isUltimateAbility FALSE
maxNumLevels 1
levelSourceType "FixedLevel0"
aiUseTime "Anytime"
aiUseTargetCondition "ShieldDamageExceedsAmount"
onlyAutoCastWhenTargetShieldDamageExceedsAmount
Level:0 200.000000
Level:1 0.000000
Level:2 0.000000
isAutoCastAvailable TRUE
isAutoCastOnByDefault TRUE
pickRandomPlanetToExploreForAutoCastTarget FALSE
ignoreNonCombatShipsForAutoCastTarget TRUE
onlyAutoCastWhenDamageTakenExceedsPerc 0.000000
isPassive FALSE
antiMatterCost
Level:0 10.000000
Level:1 0.000000
Level:2 0.000000
cooldownTime
Level:0 25.000000
Level:1 0.000000
Level:2 0.000000
researchPrerequisites
NumResearchPrerequisites 0
nameStringID "IDS_ABILITY_SHIELDRESTORE_NAME"
descStringID "IDS_ABILITY_SHIELDRESTORE_DESCRIPTION"
hudIcon "HUDICON_ABILITY_SHIELDRESTORE"
smallHudIcon "HUDICON_ABILITY_SHIELDRESTORE"
infoCardIcon ""

so your suggesting i do this as 3 seperate abilities for the 3 ship classes? i like it!

my next line of business is merging the vasari ships with the advent ships to make them look better. also to merge advent and vasari tech trees. any volunteers would be nice. by the way i will be away for 1 week on vacation just so everyone knows.