passive ability rotation with engineering upgrade

[GIMLI_2]

Hey there.

I tried to make a passive ability that swaps the icon and tooltip every 4 seconds. it has 4 different forms and starts from the beginning as soon as it went through all of them. Now, first of all, what is the best way to do this? Add/Remove, Hide/Unhide, Engineering Upgrade? Are there any other methods?

As the passives give you separate buff effects, hide/unhide doesnt quite work, so i decided to give the engineering upgrade a try.

had a couple of issues:
-after rotating through all 4 abilities (which worked fine), it bugged out. that means if i set it back to level 1, the ability crashes. i have to say that the passive abilities are no hero abilities! so i had to shift click on the ability field and type in the ability codes. Another thing is that it does not change the buff effect, it always stays the first one.

 

[Jampion]

I would not use engineering upgrade. I don't like this upgrade, because you can simply achieve the same with triggers, which do not cause as many problems.
I also had problems, that engineering upgrade caused a lag spike when learned, if used with custom abilities, but that was most likely, because the custom abilities need to be loaded.
What do you mean by hide/unhide? There is the options to disable/enable abilities for certain players, maybe you mean this.
I would use add/remove ability.

 

[Daffa]

Dependant on the situation, I prefer disable/enable for singular and add/remove for multiple units in a player.

 

[Kaijyuu]

I'd use Add/Remove. Seems it would have the most scalability. And since they're all passives, the downside of resetting cooldown isn't a problem.

 

[ZiBitheWand3r3r]

add remove ability sounds reasonably, you may use something like this Loop function to make your actions every 4 seconds:

function Loop takes nothing returns nothing //this runs every second
    local integer modulus
    set counter=counter+1 // global connected to your unit
    set modulus=counter-((counter/16)*16)
    if modulus==4 then
   
    elseif modulus==8 then
   
    elseif modulus==12 then

    elseif modulus==0 then

    endif
endfunction