Ability button?

[Ale_tuskarr]

Ok the title doesn't say much i'll explain...
I made an ability from a passive one that doesn't show an icon. I was wondering how can I make the Icon appear in-game?

 

[Super-Sheep]

From what ability you made it?

Well.. you can allways make Devotion Aura and set values of it to 0 and targets to none.

 

[Ale_tuskarr]

from the pheonix fire ability

 

[Super-Sheep]

Then just make devotion aura with all values 0 and targets tree. And change tooltip to Phoenix Fire and so on. Its gonna be just a dummy spell.

Go it?

 

[doom_sheep]

doesnt phoenix fire show an icon? i thought it does.

anyway, if its an unit just give it a fake ability (0% evasion 0% critical or an aura with no targets). if its a hero u need to add an ability when learning the skill and level it everytime the skill is leveled.

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

Im pretty sure that Phoenix fire has an option called "Show icon".

I think i can remmeber i did something in the spell, when i made my old map, Survival Wars.
It was for a tank, that should have a turret. Made it appear somehow...

 

[Ale_tuskarr]

where can I find that option? it's not in the ability editor

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

It can be me that is wrong.

 

[Name_n]

You can make a Fake spell for an icon. Copy a spell out of something Passive like Bash, set chance to 0% and use triggers. Whenever the unit obtains or learns that spell, you can set the action to adding that ability ('Phoenix Fire', which serves as the effect) to the learning or triggering unit.

Also, keep in mind, if your leveling up Phoenix Fire, it will not work, so you must create several seperate spells with different values at certain spots. When you trigger this, remove the previous level spell and add the upgraded spell level (Yeah.. I know it's annoying)

 

[Dr Super Good]

Name_n, using your way it should work with multi level as you simply set the level of the ability to that of the dummy.

The problem however is if you can not get the ability to not show an icon, as then you need to use a hidden spell book which means it is not so easy to level the ability up.