Remove Attack Cooldown?

[StaberFire]

Is there a way in JASS to remove the attack cooldown of a unit after it attacks, or reset it or something?
What I am trying to do is have a hero with the Hydra model attack 3x in a row very quickly.
I tried everything in GUI. The closest I can get is having a dummy cast Bloodlust with 100x attack speed increase. But honestly, that's not fast enough. It still interrupts the time that the next attack would normally start, which is an undesired effect.
I would greatly appreciate any input on this subject, and if you can figure out a way with JASS you'll probably need to explain to me what to do with the code, as I am a gigantic JASS noob.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

Perhaps create 3 invisible mirror images and only let them attack once.

 

[StaberFire]

Eh, that would work but it wouldn't show the animation, the unit would just recieve the damage. If I did that I may as well just use a 3x critical. =P

 

[Cokemonkey11]

Then I'm not sure what you mean. A unit can't attack 3 times at the same time ("removing" cooldown)

If you mean speed him up, you can deal his damage 3 times and display his attack animation while paused at 300% speed.

 

[Vulcano]

Set animation backswing point and animation damage point to 0.000 of hydra but it will look weird when normal attacking. Then increase AS.

 

[Saia_Djinn]

whats about multishot based of the ability from the steam tank
i dont know how to do it exactly but search for multishot... there are also some examples i think

 

[Pharaoh_]

Well, here is this trick for a double hit, triple, can't or too tired of searching for it. View attachment DoubleShot.w3x

 

[StaberFire]

Thanks everyone, I believe the problem is as solved as it can get. Pausing and animating the unit while dealing it's calculated damage seems to be the best way.

 

[gurra_geban]

I usually make a counter attack ability where i increase the units animation speed by 200%, trigger the attack animation and then have it deal damage to the unit attacking it... you could probably play around with this and get more or less what you are after...

use damage taken to get what damage the hydra deals, and then each time it lands one of the 3 attacks deal that damage to the target... or something ^^