How to add an ability that has 50 level cap

[rysnt11]

The title only says little,
In fact i want to make a skill that:
When the hero kills a unit, it will gain + damage in return, or i should say, add + damage item ability,
I had making them, but i can't solve the problen just by using the standart triggering

The problem is:
When the cap is reached, the triggers wont reconized it, and keep increasing the level ability with no limit,

The solution i want is:
How to make the triggers when the cap is reached the triggers won't add more level on the ability, and, how to remove each level's damage bonus, when the heroes skill are increased trough leveling?
Anyone can help?

 

[Dr. Boom]

Moin moin =)

I would say you can use this:

if GetUnitAbilityLevel(YourUnit,AbilityCode) <= 50 then
   // Do all the actions here

But I don't know, if this was the function, which doesn't work and always returns 1, so here's another way:

Create an integer variable. Now when ever the ability level is increased, increase the integer variable too. So you can use the condition:

if IntegerVaraible <= 50 then
   // All actions

But wondering, if the Level of the Ability has a cap of 50, how the trigger could increase it? Because there is no level 51 at all =O

 

[dardas]

hmm.. maybe level 1 - 50 = 50 levels cap,
and 51 - 100 = 100 levels cap, or so on.. so it will keep increasing? =]

 

[baassee]

Abilities that have more than 4 levels won't convert into SLKs which will make your map load slower. Just had to point that out.

 

[Dr. Boom]

Really? =O Never heard this before. But the question is HOW slower? Because I have
a map with about 30 heroes and the normal abilities have 9 level and each hero has 3 of them ...
By the way what is SLK?^^ and is there a wait to prevent the increased load time then?

 

[baassee]

Split the abilities up into different abilities with 3 levels each instead.

Try to create a map with the abilities you have but with 4 levels. Use Widgetizer on both maps. Notice the difference.

 

[Dr. Boom]

Split the abilities up into different abilities with 3 levels each instead.

Try to create a map with the abilities you have but with 4 levels. Use Widgetizer on both maps. Notice the difference.

Sounds logical, but nearly every spell is triggered in vJass. So to do the spit way, I need to create a system first, that, if the hero learns an ability above 3, another ability replace it (hope I'm not wrong here).
Also then I need to change and add lines to all the spell, for correct using .. So much work for saving 1 - 2 seconds of load time .. I don't know

 

[baassee]

I haven't benchmarked this but as it converts most widgets into SLK tables (except doodads as it bugs) it will have a remarkable loading time decrease. It's not about 1-2 seconds, at least not for my map Master Arena. Probably a decrease of 20 seconds or something like that after widgetized.

I think this is the reason why DOTA only have 4 levels and same to Rexxar campaign I *think*.

 

[rysnt11]

I was mean to the action "unit-increase ability level for triggering unit"
I use that, and my ability goes up to level 51, in that level my + damage get down to 0, not increasing, but the result is the opposite...
How that can be fixed?

 

[Adiktuz]

just check if the level of the ability for the unit is less than 50, if yes, increase its level, if equal to 50, do nothing...

 

[rysnt11]

But, in the tutorial section, they said to avoid use do nothing?

 

[haxel96]

What Adiktuz mean isn't that you should add the function Do nothing, he mean you should add nothing.


When you use If/Then/Else - Multiple functions, if want nothing to happen in the else part, just don't add nothing, keep it empty, there is where you shouldn't add the "Do nothing." action. But IF you use Do nothing, it doesn't really matter, your trigger will be 1 line longer, and with lots of If/Then/Else it will be much longer.

It doesn't matter if you use Do nothing or not.

 

[Adiktuz]

What Adiktuz mean isn't that you should add the function Do nothing, he mean you should add nothing.

this... ^_^

 

[rysnt11]

Okay, i'll try it, thanks all