Detect if an ability is passive

[chopinski]

Hello Hive!

Is there a way to know if an ability is passive or active? Not detect it's cast, just to know if it's a passive or not.

 

[Uncle]

I don't think a condition for that exists, but an idea that comes to mind is to check the abilities Cooldown, Mana Cost, and Cast Range. I imagine if all of these are equal to 0.00 then it's safe to assume that the ability is passive.

And you can guarantee that this is always the case by modifying your active abilities so that they have at least 1 of these fields set to a value > 0.00.

Of course, if a passive ability uses one of these fields it will cause a problem, but these are generally rare enough that it wouldn't be a hassle to manually filter them in your conditions.

 

[chopinski]

I don't think a condition for that exists, but an idea that comes to mind is to check the abilities Cooldown, Mana Cost, and Cast Range. I imagine if all of these are equal to 0.00 then it's safe to assume that the ability is passive.

And you can guarantee that this is always the case by modifying your active abilities that somehow meet all of these conditions. For example, increase their Cast Range or some other unused field to be > 0.00 so they don't get marked as Passive.

Hmm, that's a good idea, but i was thinking of checking the Order String - Use/Turn On field. As far as i checked, all passive abilities have this field as "none" and active ones have a string

 

[Uncle]

Nice, that sounds like the best option.

 

[FUJI]

You mean a function like: IsAbilityPassive('A000')?

The solutions provided here may only work as long you have that object instance operation natives for get/set.
However without those, (for an older patch) you could list those passives in a list of array for search & lookup.
Although, it would be nice to have that kind of function in the future without sorting into these workarounds.

 

[chopinski]

You mean a function like: IsAbilityPassive('A000')?

The solutions provided here may only work as long you have that object instance operation natives for get/set.
However without those, (for an older patch) you could list those passives in a list of array for search & lookup.
Although, it would be nice to have that kind of function in the future without sorting into these workarounds.

Yeah. A lot of stuff is only possible thanks to the new natives, so creating system that are compatible to everyone will become harder the more complex they are.