Complex Hero to Unit Morph

[Jaina Proudless]

I have in mind an ability which is quite complex but I think it should be possible.

It's a 'disguise' ability that morphs the hero into a unit. The unit does not retain anything from the hero and is an ordinary unit that does not benefit from level ups (so it's indistinguishable from other units). However, while in this form I still want the 'hero' part to gain experience so basically the hero can 'disguise' himself as a unit enter the fray and get some levels then morph back enter his skill points and so on.

Furthermore, if the the hero dies while in unit form he returns as his hero form with a bit of lowered health and his spells on cooldown but that's not hard to do.

I just don't know where to start in regards to adding in the alternative unit and sort of storing the hero away or making him invisible or something. Does anyone have any ideas that will work well?

I did think of just using an ability but that was madness. The game crashed once the hero leveled in unit form, the heroes health permanently increased every time he morphed, and his levels didn't stay as he morphed back... and I didn't even test for what happens to items this way so... not really an option.

 

[DEE-BOO]

Here you go, it's not mui. You could make it mui easily. EDIT: some issues with this spell is the shadow and lvling up effects. You should try play with the flying height.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

This looks quite interesting. I will have to play around with it to make sure I get the details right like the spell not being able to wear off (turns back only when activated or dies) and the hero not dying after his disguise unit is killed and the level up affects being invisible.

Thanks but I just want to know what is this disguise_original_form ability that you add and remove from the hero using a custom command?

 

[DEE-BOO]

It's locust, without locust, the hero will be seen in the mini map. If you want to hide the level up effect, you could try to store experience in a variable, then give it to the hero when he reverts.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Whatever you do; don't actually morph the unit (as in using metamorphosis ability or bearform/crowform) but instead just replace it via script ... it will crash when you attempt to morph units directly into heroes and the reverse.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

Whatever you do; don't actually morph the unit (as in using metamorphosis ability or bearform/crowform) but instead just replace it via script ... it will crash when you attempt to morph units directly into heroes and the reverse.

well i already tried it and it only crashed when the unit form got enough xp to level up the hero form.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

Alright I finally got around to implementing this idea. It works but has one big issue.

There can be more than 1 morphing hero like this. There can be up to 9 of them but the issue is seen with even 2 of them. If both disguise and then the one who disguised first leaves his disguise the hero form does not appear. It remains in locut/invisible form forever.

 

[Ardenian]

Maybe also take a look on this thread, it might be interesting for you:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/lab-715/heroicunit-engineering-upgrade-non-hero-units-270930/

 

[pick-a-chew]

I made a spell similar to this once (a banshee hero who could possess creeps temporarily). I think what I did was to hide the casting hero, and periodically move them to the possess unit (disguise in your case) periodically so they acquire exp. When the possessed unit died or cancelled the effect with a sub ability, the hero was unhidden and took damage.

I remember it working fairly smoothly. Hope this helps.

 

[Jaina Proudless]

I made a spell similar to this once (a banshee hero who could possess creeps temporarily). I think what I did was to hide the casting hero, and periodically move them to the possess unit (disguise in your case) periodically so they acquire exp. When the possessed unit died or cancelled the effect with a sub ability, the hero was unhidden and took damage.

I remember it working fairly smoothly. Hope this helps.

Yeah hiding the unit is better than adding locust ability to it. I had a bug when the locust ability was added and removed the hero became untargetable.

I used hide and it works fine. I multiplied the trigger and the variables 9 times so that all 9 players on the map can have the hero and use the spell without bugs.