Hero Mount Ability

[Linaze]

Hello dear fellows of the hive. I need help creating an ability for my upcoming rpg campaign. I have this hero which has a number of different abilities, one of them being Mount Up, which I yet haven't started on due to lack of knowledge on how to do so. However, I thought you might be able to help me. The information that I will give you is the following, when you mount up you change into a different hero, that has the same level as your other hero, but has different abilities. So for example if I am on the unmounted version, speck an ability known as "Crusader's Strike", go into mounted form, spec a spell known as "Heroic Charge", then I go back into unmounted form, I want it to have saved the "Crusader Strike" that I specced before. And the same if I go back into mounted form again. I really don't know how to do this, if you need more information or feel like helping a lost guy out, please reply to this thread.

Thanks in advance, Linaze.

 

[Vegavak]

Hello dear fellows of the hive. I need help creating an ability for my upcoming rpg campaign. I have this hero which has a number of different abilities, one of them being Mount Up, which I yet haven't started on due to lack of knowledge on how to do so. However, I thought you might be able to help me. The information that I will give you is the following, when you mount up you change into a different hero, that has the same level as your other hero, but has different abilities. So for example if I am on the unmounted version, speck an ability known as "Crusader's Strike", go into mounted form, spec a spell known as "Heroic Charge", then I go back into unmounted form, I want it to have saved the "Crusader Strike" that I specced before. And the same if I go back into mounted form again. I really don't know how to do this, if you need more information or feel like helping a lost guy out, please reply to this thread.

Thanks in advance, Linaze.

Unless you have a model with two animation paths, you will have to stick to the basics.

When he casts mount, you save his data, remove him, and create a mounted with his data and whatever changes you wish to make.

It's just copying all his abilities/units/hp/mana/etc and transferring it to the newly created unit.

 

[Linaze]

You mean game cache or whatever? + How do I do so that he changes into a horserider, which isn't an animation path on the same model, plz respond m8.

 

[Vegavak]

You mean game cache or whatever? + How do I do so that he changes into a horserider, which isn't an animation path on the same model, plz respond m8.

You have a horsed unit and a foot unit. They are the same "hero", only one is with a horse. There are 2 units.

When you cast the spell MOUNT, you replace the foot unit with a horse unit. When you cast the spell DISMOUNT, you replace the horse unit with the foot unit.

Understand?

 

[Linaze]

Correct, but they share level, so if you level while on foot the mounted one levels as well thought you dont notice until u go into mounted mode.

 

[Vegavak]

Correct, but they share level, so if you level while on foot the mounted one levels as well thought you dont notice until u go into mounted mode.

What part of copying unit abilities/units/hp/mana/etc did you misunderstand?

Everytime you cast MOUNT/DISMOUNT, you want to store the units current values and give them to the other.

It's long and tiresome, but it must be done to preserve the illusion of a dismountable hero.