Passive ability with a cooldown (attack-based)

Arisato · 02-09-2012, 05:30 AM

Tutorial

Passive Abilities With Cooldown

Tutorial

Introduction

I seen many people posted some threads about it and most people who knew how to make a passive ability with a cooldown wouldn't answer it, so here are the tricks to do this yourself (example:Geminate Attack from DotA!(Well IceFrog's spell is triggered too, but making the passive cooldown is the same like the one provided in this tutorial))

Well the trick is actually simple, NO TRIGGERING SKILLS NEEDED!
Yes i mean it, even if you have no actual knowledge about triggering, and you only know HOW to use Object Editor etc etc, you can make it.

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The Actions

So lets get started

What will you be needing:
-World Edit
-Knowledge about the Object Editor
-A Brain

First of all , create an ability which you want it to be cast passively , doesn't matter if the ability is an active ability, i will use chain lightning as my passive ability,and i will name the ability "Twin Lightning", doesn't matter.

Here's the image:

Image

Now create an ability based off the Orb of Lightning.

Here's the image:

Prove

Now here's the deal

Set the "Data - Effect Ability" in the ability you've just made to Twin Lightning or what name/ability you want, you can set the chance too, it's all yours

I guess that covers it all, let me show you a gameplay screenshot if you don't believe me

Twin Lightning Learned

Twin Lightning Casted

Twin Lightning Cooldown

Notes

Notes:

The icon will appear to be darker than the actual icon. To fix this, you should import a custom version of the icon and make the regular icon have a path prefix of "DISPAS" and make the actual DISPAS have a path prefix of "PAS". For example, if you have a custom version of an icon named "MyPassiveAbility.blp", then you would make the normal PASBTN have a path of:
ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtonsDisabled\DISPASMyPassiveAbility.blp

And make the other disabled version have a path of:
ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtons\PASMyPassiveAbility.blp

Then in the object editor, assign it to the icon with the path:
ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtons\PASMyPassiveAbility.blp

Note that this may appear as green when the game is paused. (I'm not positive about this, but I assume that would happen) However, the problem where it is darkened will be fixed.

Also note that this technique as a whole is subject to whatever bugs/quirks the orb abilities already have.

Test Map

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PurgeandFire · 02-10-2012, 02:19 AM

Images in the [hidden] tags are not showing up for me. Make sure they are attached to the hiveworkshop and not an external image hosting website.

watermelon_1234 · 02-10-2012, 03:11 AM

The reason images aren't showing is because he didn't put any image link there. :P

Arisato · 02-10-2012, 04:27 AM

Lol, it works for me?

Updated, image should appear ^^

WaterKnight · 02-10-2012, 11:47 AM

There are many more types of passive abilities than the crappy onAttack orb.

Arisato · 02-10-2012, 12:04 PM

What does that have to do with the tutorial?

WaterKnight · 02-10-2012, 01:37 PM

The title does not fit. I was hoping for a tutorial how to generally make passive abilities with cooldown.

fakedrake · 02-11-2012, 03:48 PM

The reason that icon gets darker when you learn it is that it automatically becomes a DISBTN type icon. So use a brighter DISBTN can solve the problem, but then when you open the menu then everything goes dark except this icon XD, which is kinda annoying

Arisato · 02-13-2012, 05:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WaterKnight

The title does not fit. I was hoping for a tutorial how to generally make passive abilities with cooldown.

You can set the ability to be a channel ability , and trigger what it would do, it will still have the cooldown, this is flexible if you don't know.

And Orb effects destroy this skill, missile modifiers don't seem to destroy this ability, (tested a poison arrow + this)

@fakedrake, you can change the BTN into brighter and leave the DISBTN dark, i think that's how i solved it? or vice versa?i can't seem to remember

WaterKnight · 02-13-2012, 08:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arisato

You can set the ability to be a channel ability , and trigger what it would do, it will still have the cooldown, this is flexible if you don't know.

And it will still go only onAttack. But passives can also fire on other ocassions such as a nearby unit dies, the unit gets healed, receives damage/drops below life, casts another spell/uses an item, kills a unit, idles, ...

The problem is that you cannot trigger the ability instantly via trigger, not immediately perform an attack against some dummy unit or get to cooldown otherwise. At least, I do not know of such a way and was hoping to get some clue as I was reading the thread title.

Btw, orb abilities have another bug. If a unit attacks automatically out of a nearby enemy aggravating, not because you ordered it, it won't have an order and orb effects won't trigger then.

Arisato · 02-15-2012, 08:58 AM

then you can trigger it if a unit is attacked, then order it to attack, but check if the unit has an ability that needs to be ordered to trigger the passive.