Buy spell from neutral faction?

[H1GhL0Rd]

Well, I am working on my own map, and I wanted an "vendor" to sell upgrades. The only thing is that I only want ONE of them on my map, and is then in need of an neutral faction to sell it. How would I go about doing this? How can I make it sell upgrades/spells?

What would I have to edit to make this work?

I tried to search, but I was unable to find anything. If this has been asked and/or answered before, please post link to that thread, and a mod close this thread or something.

 

[M.I.A.]

This can't be done without Jass scripting for all I know... Triggers require that there be unit capable of researching the upgrade for the team, an upgrade can not simply be applied. You might need to add a building for each player...

 

[H1GhL0Rd]

THanks for an reply.. Was starting to getting afraid I wouldn't get an answer...

Jass scripting.. This is actully the second time I heard about it, the first when I browsed this forum earlier... Gotta check it out.

Thanks!

 

[M.I.A.]

good luck! I'm staying out of JASS for now myself, a scripting language always takes a while to learn how to use correctly.

 

[Jacek]

can't you use Goblin Merchant, make it sell items and create triggers that whenever a player gets Upgrade 1 item, you remove the item and upgrade something?

 

[M.I.A.]

yea, thats what I thought when I first saw the post, but I'd never done it before so I opened the map editor to check... turns out the closest you can get is issue a train/upgrade order... and that would require that the player has a building to perform the upgrade. thus making the goblin merchant a useless middle man.

 

[H1GhL0Rd]

So.. An trigger that activates when an player gets an item..? That sounds smart actully... Gotta test that out.

 

[Just_Spectating]

this is easy. base the item off a tomb with no abilities, then with triggers event when unit acquires and item then item = (w.e) set upgrade to level of upgrade +1

 

[DesKaladA]

try this

• Buy Some Crap
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Acquires an item
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Some item
      • Then - Actions
        • AI - do somting
      • Else - Actions
        • AI - do somting

 

[M.I.A.]

There is no "set upgrade to level of upgrade +1" I just went over that.

I noticed that you were also looking for spells, here's a map resource that covers that very well: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/resources_new/maps/5286/

 

[Ljusdahl]

Oh, that's funny...

• Upgrade Vendor AR
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to TomeDummy Andrenaline Rush
  • Actions
    • Player - Set the current research level of Andrenaline Rush to ((Current research level of Andrenaline Rush for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) + 1) for (Owner of (Triggering unit))

Whereas "Tomedummy Andrenaline Rush" is the ability of a tome that is used when aquired. You can also use the "aquires item" event, I think. But of course change the condition.

You can also store the abilities and upgrades in integer arrays, thus only needing 1 trigger for all upgrades. If you don't know how I could type it out for you. It's pretty easy.

(oh and this trigger leaks, search for "Memory leak" if you dont know about it)

 

[Just_Spectating]

right there, who said there was no setting upgrades trigger?