Item Cooldowns

[Karzama]

Hi all,

I've got an idea in my head of how I could randomize items. My idea uses a dummy item with a dummy ability where all details of the item are held in an array of different variables. When it gets used it will track the item and get the required details.

That part is making sense to me and I think it would work, however I'd like to be able to adjust the cooldown of each item if I could. My idea would only use 1 item ability so I'd have to adjust the cooldown on cast via triggers, is this possible? I've seen the option to change cooldown on units but not sure about items?

Also just thought, is it possible to change item icons by triggers? If not will have to have more dummy items I guess

 

[Roflan]

As far as I know cooldowns are not adjustable, all you can do is to reset them all at once

 

[-Manuel-]

It's posible, the new natives allow you to change the cooldown of an ability of a unit.
The item abilities are like normal abilities for units, you can change his cd, mana cost, level as if it are a hero ability.
But keep in mind that all changes made to that ability (at least for levels, not sure for cooldown and manacost) will be back to normal when the item is drooped and picked again, so you need to make the changes every time the item is picked.

The problem with this dynamic system that you are trying to do, is that all items will have the same ID, so you need to implement another way to differentiate them. The same with the spells.

Regards

 

[Karzama]

Thanks for the responses. Have given it a go and it didn't really work the way I had thought. I tried changing the cooldown of the ability via triggers and it didn't seem to do anything to either item, I think the ability would need to be on the unit itself... which won't work unfortunately.

However, as the items aren't meant to perish I thought I'd try a recharge method, which is working so far! I can use an item when it has a charge and after X seconds it gains another charge, up to a cap which I've also included a variable for.

It's looking good so far!!

 

[Cespie]

I've got an idea in my head of how I could randomize items.

I'm not sure that I understand your exact intentions. You start out by talking about randomizing items, but the rest of the thread seems to be about how to control the cooldowns on items.

What is the exact idea that you are working on here?

 

[Karzama]

Both. I wanted to be able to randomise cooldowns on items. Unfortunately I couldn't seem to change the cooldown of an item but a recharge method seems to work instead