Edit Hotkey Of Skill

[konjured1103]

How to edit Hotkey of skill learned by hero?

or any skills possessed by any unit in the map..

how

 

[Ramza]

In the ability screen, go to ''Text - Hotkey - Normal''.

Or do you mean changing hotkeys in-game?

 

[konjured1103]

In the ability screen, go to ''Text - Hotkey - Normal''.

Or do you mean changing hotkeys in-game?

In Game sir.

 

[sephiroth1234]

In the folder where you installed WC3, there is a text file which regards to Hot Keys, there is the procedure. Read that, it won't take long....

 

[defskull]

Changing Hotkeys IN GAME ?
WoW..

 

[Adiktuz]

Changing Hotkeys IN GAME ?
WoW..

yeah, WoW

I dont see any trigger for in-game hotkey changing... there really isnt right?

 

[konjured1103]

yeah, WoW

I dont see any trigger for in-game hotkey changing... there really isnt right?

I've found a way, a bit complicated way, using channel spells/assorted.

 

[Adiktuz]

I've found a way, a bit complicated way, using channel spells/assorted.

why would you need to change the hotkeys anyway?

 

[D4RK_G4ND4LF]

duplicate every spell for every letter in your alphabet and add/remove them as you want

probably no way around it unless you tell us what you want it for

 

[konjured1103]

duplicate every spell for every letter in your alphabet and add/remove them as you want

probably no way around it unless you tell us what you want it for

Ok, Let me tell you my map.
.

So, It's a skill arena

There will be couple of modes, first mode is the Skill Runes spawning anywhere in the battlefield/arena.

Upon manipulating the said rune, a random ability will be given to the manipulating unit.

well, the skills, a conflict between skills may occur.. the hotkeys of each

and lastly, I also have another problem

the removal of skill upon finishing casting/using it.

it's quite different upon removal of carrion/breathoffire/forked lightning from divineshield/other skills.

i can't figure a way where the skills will be removed accurately.

 

[D4RK_G4ND4LF]

Ok, Let me tell you my map.
.

So, It's a skill arena

There will be couple of modes, first mode is the Skill Runes spawning anywhere in the battlefield/arena.

Upon manipulating the said rune, a random ability will be given to the manipulating unit.

well, the skills, a conflict between skills may occur.. the hotkeys of each

and lastly, I also have another problem

the removal of skill upon finishing casting/using it.

it's quite different upon removal of carrion/breathoffire/forked lightning from divineshield/other skills.

i can't figure a way where the skills will be removed accurately.

maybe it could help to seperate the skills like this:
Hotkey Q: Active spells/Attack spells
Hotkey W: Passive spells/Defensive spells
Hotkey E: Other spells
Hotkey R: Ultimates
and limit them to 1 per type or something like that so they won't conflict

 

[defskull]

You must manage the game, not the game manages you
Plan your Hotkeys accordingly to the game do it doesn't create any conflict with another Hotkeys
Q - W - E - R is the best solution to avoid conflict issues, AND, this method is player-friendly as it provides an easier way to fire up a spell/ability

 

[Adiktuz]

Ok, Let me tell you my map.
.

So, It's a skill arena

There will be couple of modes, first mode is the Skill Runes spawning anywhere in the battlefield/arena.

Upon manipulating the said rune, a random ability will be given to the manipulating unit.

well, the skills, a conflict between skills may occur.. the hotkeys of each

and lastly, I also have another problem

the removal of skill upon finishing casting/using it.

it's quite different upon removal of carrion/breathoffire/forked lightning from divineshield/other skills.

i can't figure a way where the skills will be removed accurately.

you can remove the skill when the ability takes effect...

• Events
• Unit - A unit starts the effect of an ability
• Actions
• //Put your actions here if the spell is triggered...
• Unit - Remove AbilityBeingCast from TriggeringUnit

but maybe remove it at the last line of the code if the spell is triggered...

and some skills that has duration will be removed when you remove ability like, locust swarm (the swarm will die if the ability gets removed)

For this you can use TimerUtils so that you can create a timer and attach a data to it... So basically when the spell takes effect you make a new timer using TimerUtiles and then attach the ability's rawcode and units handleId to the timer and set its expiration time to the time of the duration of the spell and then make it call a function to remove the ability


(I'm not sure but I think you can set up to 2 data per timer in TimerUtils)

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Be careful. Q W E R, as the primary aspect of many maps, has it pros and cons.
Pros is easily manipulated spell casting, while the cons it that some languages on Warcraft use Q and E as the attack/move/harvest/etc system. One of solutions, with no language shortcuts issues is the Z X C V system, which has reversed pros and cons: Not so easy to manipulate in game, but no issues with some languages.

 

[konjured1103]

Skills,

FOr example,.

Hero may choose what type their hero is..

either battle or caster

battle, have bash/critical/else,

casters have carrion, shockwave, etc..

how can I manage it with QWER?

 

[defskull]

Battle: Bash[Q] , Critical[W] , Bla Bla[E] , Bla Bloh[R]
Caster: Carrion[Q] , Shockwave[W] , Etc[E] , Bla Bla[R]

If the skill is passive, you just put the Hotkey activation to the "Text - Tooltip - Learn", no need for the "Level X - Text - Tooltip - Normal" since it cannot be activated (duhhh, PASSIVE SKILL)

Or you can use Z , X , C , V as suggested by Lucent, it is more efficient I think
(Hey, I farm Dagger of Escape by using Shadow Raze)

All in all, it's your decision

 

[D4RK_G4ND4LF]

z and y are switched on german keyboards so I would have to break my fingers to reach all the keys
have an english version of wc3 though
the german wc3 version sucked hard cause every map has Blink with b as hotkey and the move command has b as hotkey, too (german: Bewegen)
fortunately 2alt + shift" switchs german keyboard layout to english one (on win 7, don't know about other systems)