wisp wheel

[Serenity09]

Hi I'd greatly appreciate help creating either a GUI or jass system to create (and ideally destroy) wisp wheels. A wisp wheel is basically a bunch of units that rotate radially around a point. Usually its some amount of wisps going in circles around the same point. One of the tricky parts is that there are different levels of these wisps which must be moving in conjuction with the inner level. So for a 3 level wisp wheel that has 5 wisps in each level, there would be the first level that is a distance r from the center point that contains 5 wisps that are evenly spaced. In the second level there are 5 more wisps a distance r from the first level moving much faster than the first level in order to stay in sync. Third level follows the same pattern.
The parameters for this method/function include the number of wisps per level, the number of levels, the distance between each level, and the speed of the wisps. Kattana used to have a system for doing this - one that was pretty completely destroyed by the patch. I don't have the slightest idea how to fix his work, but if anyone does I'd be very grateful. It can be found here: http://www.wc3jass.com/viewtopic.php?t= ... sc&start=0
Where implementing a wisp wheel using Kattana's system was just:
function CreateWispWheel takes unit center, integer spokeId, player owner, integer spokes, integer length, real degreeIncrement, real distanceIncrement, real dpi returns nothing

[Ken]

If you wanna use his, just change this:

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function H2I takes handle h returns integer
    return h
    return 0
endfunction

To:

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function H2H takes handle h returns handle
    return h
endfunction
function H2I takes handle h returns integer
    call H2H(h)
    return 0
endfunction

[Serenity09]

Aha, thats much easier, thankyou very much and I will give ye my first born child

[Serenity09]

With the unfortunate downside that the code still won't compile. It grabs an error here:

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function GetHandleUnit takes handle subject, string name returns unit
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    return null
endfunction  //Error here

with the error coming up on endfunction for being invalid type for specified operator (there are a bunch more errors but I'm hoping the majority of them go poof)

Also tyvm once again for anyone willing to help.

Also, because it might help, here is the full code:

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// ===========================
function H2H takes handle h returns handle
    return h
endfunction
function H2I takes handle h returns integer
    call H2H(h)
    return 0
endfunction

// ===========================
function LocalVars takes nothing returns gamecache
    // Replace InitGameCache("jasslocalvars.w3v") with a global variable!!
    return InitGameCache("jasslocalvars.w3v")
endfunction

function SetHandleHandle takes handle subject, string name, handle value returns nothing
    if value==null then
        call FlushStoredInteger(LocalVars(),I2S(H2I(subject)),name)
    else
        call StoreInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name, H2I(value))
    endif
endfunction

function SetHandleInt takes handle subject, string name, integer value returns nothing
    if value==0 then
        call FlushStoredInteger(LocalVars(),I2S(H2I(subject)),name)
    else
        call StoreInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name, value)
    endif
endfunction

function SetHandleBoolean takes handle subject, string name, boolean value returns nothing
    if value==false then
        call FlushStoredBoolean(LocalVars(),I2S(H2I(subject)),name)
    else
        call StoreBoolean(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name, value)
    endif
endfunction

function SetHandleReal takes handle subject, string name, real value returns nothing
    if value==0 then
        call FlushStoredReal(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    else
        call StoreReal(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name, value)
    endif
endfunction

function SetHandleString takes handle subject, string name, string value returns nothing
    if value==null then
        call FlushStoredString(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    else
        call StoreString(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name, value)
    endif
endfunction

function GetHandleHandle takes handle subject, string name returns handle
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    return null
endfunction
function GetHandleInt takes handle subject, string name returns integer
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
endfunction
function GetHandleBoolean takes handle subject, string name returns boolean
    return GetStoredBoolean(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
endfunction
function GetHandleReal takes handle subject, string name returns real
    return GetStoredReal(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
endfunction
function GetHandleString takes handle subject, string name returns string
    return GetStoredString(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
endfunction

function GetHandleUnit takes handle subject, string name returns unit
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    return null
endfunction
function GetHandleTimer takes handle subject, string name returns timer
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    return null
endfunction
function GetHandleTrigger takes handle subject, string name returns trigger
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    return null
endfunction
function GetHandleEffect takes handle subject, string name returns effect
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    return null
endfunction
function GetHandleGroup takes handle subject, string name returns group
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    return null
endfunction
function GetHandleLightning takes handle subject, string name returns lightning
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    return null
endfunction
function GetHandleWidget takes handle subject, string name returns widget
    return GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name)
    return null
endfunction

function FlushHandleLocals takes handle subject returns nothing
    call FlushStoredMission(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)) )
endfunction

[Risen]

Instead of abusing the bug, just try GetHandleId()

[Ken]

Oh, nope, that won't help... Each of the functions like that use the old return bug such as returning an int for a unit. First add this to the top:

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function I2I takes integer i returns integer
    return i
endfunction

Then change each of the functions like the one you posted to:

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function GetHandleUnit takes handle subject, string name returns unit
    call I2I(GetStoredInteger(LocalVars(), I2S(H2I(subject)), name))
    return null
endfunction

Once you do that, it should work like a charm maybe.