Hero Shapeshifting

[Redeemer59]

Okay, in my Dungeon-Crawl map, Lair of the Dark Messiah, there's a hero that basically acts like the Druid of the Claw/Talon, in that it can shapeshift into different forms.

The only problem is, being a hero, it has to work differently. How do I make the Bear Form (and other spells like it) change the hero to a different one (Without using replace) but retaining:

The hero's name
The hero's experience
and the hero's items?

Also, when it shifts back, I want it to retain these things too. Help?

 

[Landy]

Erm.. what about daemon hunterzz metamorphosis?

 

[Redeemer59]

Hmm... that seems to work better. Is there a way to A: Make a button that reverts back to normal form (I assume using Metamorphosis again) and B: Make it so that alternate forms have their own abilities rather than the abilities of the default hero?

 

[paskovich]

Metamorphosis does that all. Why don't you try it first??

 

[Redeemer59]

I did... when you set the duration to 0, it gives it a permanent duration, so it doesn't revert back to normal form after a minute.

 

[Landy]

Go to Gameplay Constants and change Can Deactivate Metamorphosis to True

 

[Redeemer59]

Thank you! +rep

Is there a way to have each metamorphed form have their own ability trees, like a seperate hero? I could trigger it, but less coding = smaller map size, so I'd like to not do that.

 

[Doompenguin]

well as far as i remember you can change the skills of the metamorphosis unit, so you get unique skills for that form.

Oh and btw, remember not to use metamorphosis for more than one form on that hero.

 

[Sgt. Johnson]

I did something like this in my Dark Sun RPG map for the Druid class, the Druid has his normal form in which he can cast spells and such then can shift to his bear form for more melee oriented abilities.

I personally did not use Metamorphosis or Avatar for this as the buffs can be quite annoying in keeping the classe balanced.

I just used the Shapeshift ability from the normal Druid of the Claw and tweeked it.