[Spell] Engineering Upgrade and Channel Placeholder HELP

[theRealBerg]

Hello ladies and gents!

I seem to have run into a problem where the selected ability SHOULD replace the placeholder's tooltip and icon accordingly. But it does not. The selected ability still works but it has the channel animation and tooltip merged. So it seems.. What can I do to fix this? This used to work just fine btw. Does it have something to do with the recent patches?

Watch it happen, right here:

 

[Duckfarter]

I remember it being a pain in the ass to work with Engineering Upgrade. I did it half a year ago and havnt noticed any difference. However I went with a fairly different solution. I pick the ability for the Hero as it is chosen. Its kind of an abomination of a trigger but it works.

• Player - Enable Q Spell for (Owner of (Buying unit))
• Unit - Add Pulled Pork (Pig) to (Buying unit)
• Hero - Learn skill for (Buying unit): Q Spell
• Player - Disable Q Spell for (Owner of (Buying unit))
• Unit - Add Engineering Upgrade (Pulled Pork) to (Buying unit)
• Unit - For (Buying unit), Ability Engineering Upgrade (Pulled Pork), Hide ability: True
• Unit - Remove Pulled Pork (Pig) from (Buying unit)
• Else - Actions

An error I have noticed is that the game will on the last level take value data from a level that doesnt exist. That is fixed by adding another level and setting the values to the same amount as the now second last level. The newly added level will not be pickable.

This next trigger should work with your current system if you dont want the ability to be picked as it is chosen but instead as it is learned.

• Learn Lightning Shield
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Learns a skill
  • Conditions
    • (Level of Lightning Shield for (Triggering unit)) Equal to 1
    • (Learned Hero Skill) Equal to Lightning Shield
  • Actions
    • Unit - Remove Lightning Shield from (Triggering unit)
    • Unit - Add Lightning Shield to (Triggering unit)

Please tell if you find a better solution.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Engineering upgrade only works properly for abilities made out of the same base ability.
You cant mix and match them freely.

 

[theRealBerg]

Please tell if you find a better solution.

Thank you for replying with something for me to try. I will see if I can get your way to work.
It is a work around but hey, if it works it works. I will let you know what the outcome is.. Thanks again.

Engineering upgrade only works properly for abilities made out of the same base ability.
You cant mix and match them freely.

I swear, this worked perfectly fine. Icon, text and all. Closed that part because I thought it was finished, until this started to become a problem later on

What do you mean by 'the same base ability' exactly? Thanks.

 

[Uncle]

I messed around with Engineering Upgrade in this thread: [Spell] - Changing Spells While in Metamorphosis

I have some example maps you might be interested in (need latest version of wc3). Morph v.1 shows you a simple way to get Engineering Upgrade to work the way you'd like.

Not sure if what I did is even necessary or not, but it seems to work.