Disabling ability leveling / Item for leveling ability

[Gooseman]

Hello
I am trying to make some triggers...
I want heroes to be able to level up their abilities up to, say, 3 level. But they can get it to level 4 by getting a certain item in their inventory. The problem is I have A LOT of heroes and abilities, so making copies of abilities with only level 4 and adding them to hero instead of level 1-3 ability is not an option.
I can't also detect what ability has been learned and I don't know a way to disable leveling of ability after it reaches certain level.
Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Flux]

I can't also detect what ability has been learned and I don't know a way to disable leveling of ability after it reaches certain level.
Any help will be appreciated.

Detecting ability that has been learned

• Events
• Unit - A unit Learns an Ability
• Conditions
• (Learned Hero Skill) Equal to ___

 

[Gooseman]

Oh, I forgot about this method, but how the hell do I disable leveling ability after certain level, with it still being usable and without making copies?

 

[LordDz]

Make the spells require a unit-dummy type that remove when the hero levels an ability up to 3, when they then equip the item you create the dummy-unit-type again for that player.

 

[Gooseman]

Make the spells require a unit-dummy type that remove when the hero levels an ability up to 3, when they then equip the item you create the dummy-unit-type again for that player.

I thought about that, but then again, I have to create such unit for every ability and, as I said, I have A LOT of them. So, the ways I know will take... about forever to achieve my goals and that is why I asked you, guys to help me. Anyway, thanx those who already posted good advices.

 

[Mirage_tempest]

This is very easy. I think. As you just have to detect whenever the hero upgrades a skill to level 4, and detect whenever the hero has the item requirement or not. If the hero tries to level up an ability to level 4 while not having the item, you just have to decrease the ability for that unit and add back the skill point spent on it.

add: you may even display an error message if the hero tries to level ability to 4 like "Cannot upgrade this ability. *insertyouritem* is required."

 

[Gooseman]

This is very easy. I think. As you just have to detect whenever the hero upgrades a skill to level 4, and detect whenever the hero has the item requirement or not. If the hero tries to level up an ability to level 4 while not having the item, you just have to decrease the ability for that unit and add back the skill point spent on it.

add: you may even display an error message if the hero tries to level ability to 4 like "Cannot upgrade this ability. *insertyouritem* is required."

Yes, it's quite simple. But still, is there a way to disable leveling ? If I won't find any, I will do this then.

 

[Mirage_tempest]

What do you mean by disable? Do you mean cannot show icon or cannot be clicked or something?

 

[Gooseman]

What do you mean by disable? Do you mean cannot show icon or cannot be clicked or something?

I mean the icon appears on levelup menu, but you can't click it, like if you don't have enough skill points/level too low

 

[Flux]

Your goal is fully achievable but the only way I can think of is dummy abilities. Btw, how many dummy abilities do you need to make based on your estimation?

 

[Gooseman]

Your goal is fully achievable but the only way I can think of is dummy abilities. Btw, how many dummy abilities do you need to make based on your estimation?

Hm...
See, I have 12 units now and plan on making more in future. And each of them has at least 3 normal abilities and 1 ultimate (some of them have more). So I have to make about 60 dummy abilities/units and a longass or multiple triggers for each hero/ability to disable leveling.

 

[Flux]

Hm...
See, I have 12 units now and plan on making more in future. And each of them has at least 3 normal abilities and 1 ultimate (some of them have more). So I have to make about 60 dummy abilities/units and a longass or multiple triggers for each hero/ability to disable leveling.

Ahh I see then this is a big problem. I honestly am curious about the best solution to this (perhaps other users can solve this) . If you happen to know Dota, it also have a mechanics almost similar to yours but only for 1 ability so the author creates a lot of dummy abilities. Btw, it has more than a hundred heroes but that was still his solution.

 

[Mirage_tempest]

Well I exactly did what I have stated above in my own map. My heroes cannot upgrade skills past level 5 if the hero is below lv.16. Which, I thought that way was the most appropriate solution. What the problem only is, is if you have some spells that trigger when learning. ex: Every upgrade of a spell increases damage by x
If that is what are you worrying about, you just have to trigger the learning effect to. But I think not many people create spells like that.

 

[Gooseman]

Well I exactly did what I have stated above in my own map. My heroes cannot upgrade skills past level 5 if the hero is below lv.16. Which, I thought that way was the most appropriate solution. What the problem only is, is if you have some spells that trigger when learning. ex: Every upgrade of a spell increases damage by x
If that is what are you worrying about, you just have to trigger the learning effect to. But I think not many people create spells like that.

The only thing I am worrying about is wasting a lot of time just because I don't know a better way to do this.

 

[Mirage_tempest]

You may code that only around 2 mins.

you may do this...

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Learns a skill
• Conditions
  • (Learned skill level) Greater than > 3
• Actions
  • Multiple FunctionsIf (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
    • If - Conditions
      • ((Triggering unit) has an item of type YOUR_ITEM) Equal to False
    • Then - Actions
      • Custom script: call DecUnitAbilityLevelSwapped( GetLearnedSkillBJ(), GetTriggerUnit() )
      • Hero - Modify unspent skill points of (Triggering unit): Add 1 points
    • Else - Actions

Then display an error message if you want

 

[Gooseman]

You may code that only around 2 mins.

you may do this...

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Learns a skill
• Conditions
  • (Learned skill level) Greater than > 3
• Actions
  • Multiple FunctionsIf (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
    • If - Conditions
      • ((Triggering unit) has an item of type YOUR_ITEM) Equal to False
    • Then - Actions
      • Custom script: call DecUnitAbilityLevelSwapped( GetLearnedSkillBJ(), GetTriggerUnit() )
      • Hero - Modify unspent skill points of (Triggering unit): Add 1 points
    • Else - Actions

Then display an error message if you want

Thank you so very much, I'll use this.

 

[Flux]

You might want to change the DecUnitAbilityLevelSwapped( GetLearnedSkillBJ(), GetTriggerUnit() ) to DecUnitAbilityLevel(whichUnit, GetLearnedSkill()) for better performance. Well it may not be noticeable but its good practice to use native functions than BJ functions/

 

[Mirage_tempest]

You might want to change the DecUnitAbilityLevelSwapped( GetLearnedSkillBJ(), GetTriggerUnit() ) to DecUnitAbilityLevel(whichUnit, GetLearnedSkill()) for better performance. Well it may not be noticeable but its good practice to use native functions than BJ functions/

Yes. Bj's are evil. I just didn't notice because I was just converting the code from gui to JASS. Anyways, that code will be better.