Get abiltityTag information

[crorella]

It would be great to have a mapping between abilityTag and the actual ability name.

[jnovack]

Can you give me an example of how it's currently, and how you would make it right?

[crorella]

Here is an example, taken from the game event file:

{
"_eventid": 27,
"m_unitGroup": null,
"_event": "NNet.Game.SCmdEvent",
"m_abil": {"m_abilLink": 177,"m_abilCmdIndex": 0, "m_abilCmdData": null},
"_gameloop": 717,
"_bits": 176,
"m_data": {"TargetPoint": {"y": 419840, "x": 501760, "z": 32432}},
"_userid": {"m_userId": 0},
"m_cmdFlags": 256,
"m_sequence": 62,
"m_otherUnit": null
}

Here, abilityTag is a function of m_abilLink and m_abilCmdIndex, for example, abilityTag 5664 is Toxic Nest.

[jnovack]

"5664" does not appear anywhere in the extracted xml files, nor does "177". How do you know it's Toxic Nest?

I'm still confused.

[crorella]

Sorry, I missed one vital point here:

In order to convert from m_abilLink and m_abilCmdIndex to abilityTag you need to apply the following function:

abilityTag = m_abilLink << 5 | m_abilCmdIndex

How do I know 5664 is Toxic Nest? because I played a custom game with Abathur and registered every ability I casted, then checked the logs and mapped the abilityTag to the skill I casted.

I asked with a developer of heroprotocol and he commented the info is relative to the build data.

[jnovack]

I understand, but one TINY problem remains. There's no ability numbers in the XML. There's damage numbers, but nothing identifying an ability via an "id" of some sort.

[crorella]

What about the position of the ability in the file? I'll check that

[crorella]

Yep, that was it. I'll have to figure out what is the loading order of the files since there is a heromod folder with extra info.

Thanks

[barrett777]

Just an FYI before you jump in and try to map out all the abilities, you may want to make sure this information is what you want.

In the Starcraft 2 replay file, for example, some actions would be listed in 'game events' whether they actually happened or not. For example, if you had 5 SCV's queued in a Command Center and tried to build another, it would show in the game events, but in game it would fail because you can only have 5 at once.

I worry that things will be similar with heroes - it may be recording game events for attempting to cast abilities while out of range, or while stunned/silenced

If you do look into it though, please let me know what you find out :)

Edit: On that note, if you do decide to pursue this, you may want to look into some SC2 projects as some of them did get into mapping abilities (https://github.com/GraylinKim/sc2reader/blob/master/sc2reader/data/HotS/24764_abilities.csv)