Is there a way to give a hero a tome?

[Arhowk]

title is kinda misleading, but i want to put a tome in a heros inventory as if "Use Upon Pickup" was off but if you drop it and pick it up it will use it

 

[sonofjay]

Just set this to false of the chosen item

Stats - Use automatically when acquired

 

[Adiktuz]

then create a trigger which detects when a unit is ordered targeting an item, check if the order is to pick it up and check if the target item is a tome, if yes, put it into the inventory and make the hero use it...

or you can just make a trigger which runs when the unit picks up an item, check if it was a tome and order him to use it... now on the trigger where you give the unit a tome, disable the use trigger first before giving tome, then enable it afterwards

or you can create two versions of tome, one with the use auto turned on, one with it turned off... you give the hero the turned off version, then create a trigger such that when he drops it, you change it into the turned on version...

@SonofJay - if you read his post, he already knows that... but he wants it such that if he drops it and picks it up, it will be like the use automatically is on again

 

[sonofjay]

@SonofJay - if you read his post, he already knows that... but he wants it such that if he drops it and picks it up, it will be like the use automatically is on again

Oh didn't read that, I only read the title

 

[Arhowk]

Adikutz, your right and wrong

For technical reasons, i need the object editor to have Use on Pickup : True. This will be true for all items, even if they cant be used. If you try to pickup an item that has use on pickup true and actively used as false, than it will do nothing (yet the unit is ordered targeting an item will still function) but if i try to UnitAddItem(GetTriggerUnit(), GetOrderTargetItem()) than it puts the item at the heroes foot

 

[Adiktuz]

You should told us at the start that you need all items to have that option to be true... but I wonder why?