[General] About the Scroll of Town Portal

[Orcnet]

hey anybody knows how to work the scroll of town portal with the following adds:

-can teleport to any friendly-owned buildings (e.g farm, tomb or relics, etc.)

-the hero casting the scroll can be hit or stun like the one used in "Staff of Teleportation"

-the hero can cancel(stop, move) like the one used in "Staff of Teleportation"

-when target to a picked building, it can still continue its structure abilities(e.g. train peasants, call to arms, upgrade, etc) and doesn't have the invulnerable part for the hero and the building

-when being cast, its Art - Area of Effect should have a team color of the matched player (e.g Red Player uses the scroll, so it should be red)

anyone that can help me work this out or tab it in GUI, I highly appreciate it

EDIT: I'm not talking about DotA's version, cause its very different and slightly similar to what I'm explaining

 

[Vladadamm]

1. I think you just should add the Town hall classification to all the buildings you want.
2. Mbe check when unit cast the ability and make it vulnerable.
3. You should recode the ability.
4. Recode the ability.
5. Add team color to the model ^^.

 

[Orcnet]

doesn't help me much mait!

 

[-Kobas-]

I found 10 different models used for teleportation in dota, dunno is this still solved in new versions.

But IceFrog use 10 different effects to handle 10 player colors.

 

[Bribe]

You change "targets allowed" in object editor, problem solved.

 

[Orcnet]

not solved exactly

 

[Bribe]

What do you mean then? What is unsolved about it?

Edit: looking into the OP more specifically, you will need to trigger the effect. Because the spell effect will not be team-colored. You can use the DUMMY.mdx file by Vexorian and attach the teleportation effect to it, and change the dummy color.

 

[Orcnet]

okay I'll do that, but you haven't answered my 4 other questions listed at the top, but still I'm working on it. thanks

 

[-Kobas-]

There is way to handle different colored special effect.
Create dummy unit with SFX model and then using triggers change it's RBG color to player color.

But you still need white model to display colors nicely

 

[Bribe]

I recommend using the staff of teleportation, and when it is cast issue a "stop" order to the caster, and then do the following actions:

Keep the hero doing nothing for a few seconds (a dummy channeling ability might help here)
Create the dummy unit at the structure, you will need its pathing set to "none" in object editor.
Attach the teleporting effect to the dummy.
After the few seconds are up, destroy the effect, destroy the dummy and move the caster to the building.

 

[Orcnet]

I think I got lost with that part D:
can you show me a trigger sample?

 

[Bribe]

The thing is that you probably thought this was a simple request, but it is much more complex than you thought it would be.

I will re-phrase, but I am trying to follow the philosophy of not "completely giving" the answer and doing all the work for you.

1. Import the dummy.MDX file (from the map I linked you to)
2. When a unit uses Staff of Teleportation on a building, order the unit to stop. This will cancel the Staff of Teleportation.
3. Pause the unit for the duration you want him to channel the ability (just an example, you can choose something other than pausing the unit if you still want him to be able to cancel his scroll).
4. Create the dummy unit which has the dummy.MDX model file
5. Attach the teleporting effect to his "origin" point.
6. You can set the dummy unit's vertex coloring to change the color of the teleporting effect.

 

[Orcnet]

I should get started then, will just reply in your profile when I get into somewhere, thanks man