Help with avatar skill plz

[Hemske]

i have given the avatar skill to a hero with model : crystal arachnid. It works and so, but when he doesnt move or doesnt attack, well doesnt do anything he dissapear (or looks like he is burrowed). Can someone tell me how to fix this?

 

[ike_ike]

There is a field in the Avatar ability called 'Required Animation Names'. This should have a thingy that says 'alternate'. Just remove that and you'll be fine. That 'alternate' tells the game to use the model's alternate animations should it have one. For the Mountain King, that is his Avatar form, for the Arachnids it is their buried form.

 

[Hemske]

Im looking in the Avatar ability, but i cant find it. Where is the "required animation name"?

 

[ike_ike]

Ah, wait. I remember now. This used to be a bug in DotA too. Whenever you used the Black King Bar, units with alternate models like the Tinker and Antimage would turn into their Alternate forms. I think that the Alternate tag is hardcoded into the ability, like it is for other morph spells. DotA fixed that bug, but I have no idea how. Your best bet is to base it off another ability, or get a different model

 

[ady_illidan]

use metamorphosis instead of avatar

 

[Hemske]

Ah, wait. I remember now. This used to be a bug in DotA too. Whenever you used the Black King Bar, units with alternate models like the Tinker and Antimage would turn into their Alternate forms. I think that the Alternate tag is hardcoded into the ability, like it is for other morph spells. DotA fixed that bug, but I have no idea how. Your best bet is to base it off another ability, or get a different model

Can u tell me how i can use triggers for avatar? like:

• Avatar skill
• Events
  • Unit - Unit uses an ability
• Conditions
  • Ability - Equal to Avatar
• Actions
  • Unit - make unit grow
    • make unit gain 4 + armor

Something like that

 

[ike_ike]

Metamorphosis also has ‘alternate’ harcoded into it -.-

Um. Create a spellbook with spell immunity and a bonus damage ability. Add it to your hero then disable spellbook, and that will hide the icons while making them spell immune with bonus damage. If you wish, have a dummy unit cast Bloodlust on it before giving it Spellbook so that it grows larger.
Try something like:
Event- Units begins casting an ability
Conditions – Ability equal to Avatar
Actions – Add (Spellbook) to (Triggering Unit)
- Disable Spellbook

Although I'm not sure how to reverse this

 

[Need_O2]

Unit Uses Ability
if its avatar
Animation - Remove alternate tag from Triggering Unit

it should look like burrowed with this

 

[Hemske]

Unit Uses Ability
if its avatar
Animation - Remove alternate tag from Triggering Unit

it should look like burrowed with this

Something like this?

• Avatar Stuff
• Events
  • Unit - A unit begins casting a ability
• Conditions
  • (Ability being cast) Equal to Avatar
• Actions
  • Animation - Remove the Alternate Animation Tag to (Triggering Unit)

Well, That didnt work... Tell me what i did wrong, or if you have any other suggestion how to make it work.

 

[Anachron]

DotA has used NO avatar abilty. They triggered grow and gave it spell immunity I think.. do the same

 

[Need_O2]

1- DotA uses MANY Avatars
2- And yes chocobo its like that (try some waits before removing tag if not work)

 

[Anachron]

DotA uses MANY Avatars

Sure, only that I have the version 6.50 unprotected but ok if you think... <.<

 

[Need_O2]

LoL I got Own3d

 

[ady_illidan]

Sure, only that I have the version 6.50 unprotected but ok if you think... <.<

an unprotected version of dota?

 

[Anachron]

Are you surprised? I was surprised aswell, he hasn't changed the tooltips of his dummy spells lol. (or at least remove the tooltips which would save space)

edit: Lol ady_illidan, you have 1 post more and same reputation

 

[ady_illidan]

this shows us that dota isn't such a perfect map. personally i dont play dota anymore
but we're going off-topic

 

[Anachron]

DotA is nice... but no protection is unbeatable.. )