Disable Item Dropping While On Cooldown

[twelveoclock]

Basically the title says it all. In DotA, you can't drop items if they are on cooldown. How did they do this?

 

[toofless]

I think there is no way to find out if something is on cooldown so they way they probably do it is to make the item undroppable when it's used and set a timer manually that is the length of the cooldown so you can make it dropable when the timer expires.

 

[nerovesper]

Yes you'll need a trigger to make them undroppable.

I made mine like this. But it sucks this way its only MPI.

1st trigger

• UndropAvatar
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Avatar (item)
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Add (Casting unit) to AvatarItemUG
    • Set AvatarDrop[(Player number of (Owner of (Casting unit)))] = (Casting unit)
    • Item - Make (Item carried by (Casting unit) of type Avatar Item) Undroppable
    • Countdown Timer - Start AvDropTimer[(Player number of (Owner of (Casting unit)))] as a One-shot timer that will expire in 80.00 seconds

2nd Trigger

• AVdrop
  • Events
    • Time - AvDropTimer[2] expires
    • Time - AvDropTimer[3] expires
    • Time - AvDropTimer[4] expires
    • Time - AvDropTimer[5] expires
    • Time - AvDropTimer[6] expires
    • Time - AvDropTimer[8] expires
    • Time - AvDropTimer[9] expires
    • Time - AvDropTimer[10] expires
    • Time - AvDropTimer[11] expires
    • Time - AvDropTimer[12] expires
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in AvatarItemUG and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • If - Conditions
            • (Remaining time for AvDropTimer[(Player number of (Owner of (Picked unit)))]) Less than 1.00
          • Then - Actions
            • Item - Make (Item carried by AvatarDrop[(Player number of (Owner of (Picked unit)))] of type Avatar Item) Droppable
            • Unit Group - Remove (Picked unit) from AvatarItemUG
          • Else - Actions

I made this a very long time ago.
It works but it really sucks making it like this to all your items. xD
I don't know if there's a system for this but there should be.
If there isn't then I think I'll make one. LOL! xD

 

[twelveoclock]

Ah Ok, you just have to use item - make undroppable. Thanks, I can just use JASS for multi item instantable.