Different attachments per level of ability?

[Steel0RaZoR]

Hello again...

I'm wondering if it is possible for a unit who has an ability which has 4 levels and for each level, there are different attachments. Like for example, when he learns the ability(level 1), an axe is attached to his hand and for level 2, a different axe is attached to the same hand and the previous axe is removed.

 

[edo494]

it is possible to do in 2 ways:

In object editor, if the spell has attachments, you can put it there, or you could trigger it as special effect, which you would create as model of the axe in his hand and store in variable, then when he levels the ability up, you destroy the previous effect(axe performs death animation and disappears) and then set the same variable(array preferred for MUIness) the new effect(with different axe)

 

[Mr_Bean]

I think the only way to do it is with triggers, as mentioned above.

 

[Steel0RaZoR]

it is possible to do in 2 ways:

In object editor, if the spell has attachments, you can put it there, or you could trigger it as special effect, which you would create as model of the axe in his hand and store in variable, then when he levels the ability up, you destroy the previous effect(axe performs death animation and disappears) and then set the same variable(array preferred for MUIness) the new effect(with different axe)

can you show me a sample trigger?

 

[Nichilus]

You could create 4 separate buffs - 1 buff for 1 level and attach those weapons there. Downside is that the buff will be visible among other buffs.

 

[edo494]

sorry I didnt write, I tried but it got a bit too much for me(GUI, I like more Jass, easier for me) so I gave up and I hope someone will show you some example trigger

 

[Nichilus]

What you need is to set up those attachments at map init - like in the trigger below.

• Map Initialization
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Attachment[1] = Abilities\Spells\Other\AcidBomb\BottleImpact.mdl
    • Set Attachment[2] = Abilities\Spells\NightElf\Barkskin\BarkSkinTarget.mdl
    • Set Attachment[3] = Abilities\Spells\Orc\Bloodlust\BloodlustTarget.mdl
    • Set Attachment[4] = Units\Undead\PlagueCloud\PlagueCloudtarget.mdl

Attachment is "string" variable array. Each string has different path to the effect - in my example [1] is AcidBomb buff, [2] Barkskin buff, [3] Bloodlust buff and [4] Disease Cloud buff.

Then second trigger fires when your hero learns the skill:

• Weapon Mastery
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Learns a skill
  • Conditions
    • (Learned Hero Skill) Equal to Weapon Mastery
  • Actions
    • Set integer = (Level of Weapon Mastery for (Triggering unit))
    • Special Effect - Destroy Weapon_effect
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the hand left of (Triggering unit) using Attachment[integer]
    • Set Weapon_effect = (Last created special effect)

When hero learns skill "Weapon Mastery", I delete his previous weapon (= special effect) and create a new one instead. As a path for the new special effect, I use the "Attachment" string array I created at map ini.

Note: Weapon_effect is "special effect" variable. This trigger will work for 1 hero only. If you want it to work for multiple heroes, you will need to make Weapon_effect into array and learn indexing and deindexing to make that MUI.

"integer" is Integer variable

 

[Steel0RaZoR]

What you need is to set up those attachments at map init - like in the trigger below.

• Map Initialization
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Attachment[1] = Abilities\Spells\Other\AcidBomb\BottleImpact.mdl
    • Set Attachment[2] = Abilities\Spells\NightElf\Barkskin\BarkSkinTarget.mdl
    • Set Attachment[3] = Abilities\Spells\Orc\Bloodlust\BloodlustTarget.mdl
    • Set Attachment[4] = Units\Undead\PlagueCloud\PlagueCloudtarget.mdl

Attachment is "string" variable array. Each string has different path to the effect - in my example [1] is AcidBomb buff, [2] Barkskin buff, [3] Bloodlust buff and [4] Disease Cloud buff.

Then second trigger fires when your hero learns the skill:

• Weapon Mastery
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Learns a skill
  • Conditions
    • (Learned Hero Skill) Equal to Weapon Mastery
  • Actions
    • Set integer = (Level of Weapon Mastery for (Triggering unit))
    • Special Effect - Destroy Weapon_effect
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the hand left of (Triggering unit) using Attachment[integer]
    • Set Weapon_effect = (Last created special effect)

When hero learns skill "Weapon Mastery", I delete his previous weapon (= special effect) and create a new one instead. As a path for the new special effect, I use the "Attachment" string array I created at map ini.

Note: Weapon_effect is "special effect" variable. This trigger will work for 1 hero only. If you want it to work for multiple heroes, you will need to make Weapon_effect into array and learn indexing and deindexing to make that MUI.

"integer" is Integer variable

It works. Thank you