Disappear purge icon/lightning orb hero ability

[ZEROZX99]

Hi, I'm creating a hero ability based on a lightning orb, but when I add it to the hero, the purge icon (2) appears.

I made this detonator, but it doesn't work:

• Detonador sin nombre 002
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Learns a skill
  • Conditions
    • (Learned Hero Skill) Igual a Ataque de Rayo
  • Actions
    • Wait 0.00 seconds
    • Player - Disable Purgar (2) for (Owner of (Learning Hero))

I need a working trigger. By the way, I did figure out how to make the icon appear using an ability.

 

[Chaosium]

Set its icon position to 0, -11 and it will be hidden but active

 

[Footman16]

Yeah you'll need to hide that icon as Chaosium and then add a dummy ability to show the icon. A dummy ability being an ability with 0 effects like the research upgrades for units. Then when the hero learns the real ability you add the dummy ability so the icon shows up. Also remember to remove the dummy ability if a tome of retraining is used.

 

[ZEROZX99]

Set its icon position to 0, -11 and it will be hidden but active

I tried purging (2) with coordinates 0 and -11 for the X and Y axes respectively, but it's not working

The main ability is a modified 6-level Lightning Orb, a hero ability. There's a section called "Effect Ability," which defaults to "Purge Item 2."

This ability appears as "disabled" after learning the main ability.

I just want it to save space. If nothing else works, I'll give it a completely black icon, as I had planned.

Yeah you'll need to hide that icon as Chaosium and then add a dummy ability to show the icon. A dummy ability being an ability with 0 effects like the research upgrades for units. Then when the hero learns the real ability you add the dummy ability so the icon shows up. Also remember to remove the dummy ability if a tome of retraining is used.

Yes, the Lightning Orb ability doesn't appear when you equip it to the hero, but I did make that trigger and there's no problem

 

[deepstrasz]

Disabling the ability makes it not work on the unit anymore.
You need to hide it instead

And add a dummy ability to show the "active/working" icon as @Footman16 suggested.

 

[Uncle]

I tried purging (2) with coordinates 0 and -11 for the X and Y axes respectively, but it's not working

The main ability is a modified 6-level Lightning Orb, a hero ability. There's a section called "Effect Ability," which defaults to "Purge Item 2."

This ability appears as "disabled" after learning the main ability.

I just want it to save space. If nothing else works, I'll give it a completely black icon, as I had planned.

Yes, the Lightning Orb ability doesn't appear when you equip it to the hero, but I did make that trigger and there's no problem

The Effect ability will always appear as "disabled". You can hide it using the 0,-11 trick in the Object Editor.

The main Ability, which your Hero will learn, is hidden outside of the Hero Skill menu.

The fix:
You'll want to introduce a 3rd ability, based on Storm Hammers, which will act as the Icon/Tooltip after the Hero ability has been learned.

Create a trigger to manually Add/Level it so that it matches your Hero ability:

• Purge Orb Update Icon
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Learns a skill
  • Conditions
    • (Learned Hero Skill) Equal to Purge Orb (Hero)
  • Actions
    • Unit - Add Purge Orb (Icon) to (Triggering unit)
    • Unit - Set level of Purge Orb (Icon) for (Triggering unit) to (Learned skill level)

 

[Enemy1PK]

Why do you still suggest using -11 if it is already known to be unreliable ?
Better use -2147483648, -2147483648

 

[deepstrasz]

Citation needed.

 

[Footman16]

On latest verions 0,-11 works perfectly and blizz made it so it would work for this exact purpose of hiding icons.

EDIT: the link to that xgm.ru page explicitly mentions it was tested on v1.26 btw.

 

[Goldfinger]

I concur, I've never had an issue with hiding Icons in this manner either. Works just fine.

 

[Chaosium]

At some point it was causing crashes for Mac users, dunno if that's still the case today