Item Cooldowns

[Angelusz]

Howdy,
I'm helping my brother create a map, and we ran into a tiny, yet annoying problem. He's using some items with abilities. This is all working really nicely, but when the item ability is used, the items don't visually display the cooldown. (gray overlay, disappearing in a circle as the cooldown expires) Does anyone know how to fix this? It does work on the normal potions, just not on the custom items, with custom on-use abilities.

~Angelusz

 

[gavdaman88]

I think I know the way to solve this. Change the cooldown group option in the item editor to the ability it casts.

 

[Angelusz]

We already had that set, no avail though. Any other suggestions?

 

[qwehe]

U could make the items dont do a shit when used (only a trigger that does something) and then when someone activates the ability, the item gets activated too, and thereby showing the cooldown

 

[Angelusz]

... No. Anyone else?

 

[gavdaman88]

If the cooldown advice i gave you doesn't work I don't think anything else will... that's the only way I've ever seen or heard of item cooldowns working. Unless you gave the item ability a cooldown of 0?

 

[Angelusz]

Hmm, that's a bummer. I'd swear it's possible though. And no, the cooldowns are in place. 30 seconds, 60 seconds or 120 seconds. What factors affect cooldown?

 

[gavdaman88]

Cooldown time and the cooldown type in item editor as far as i know. Anyone know of something else? Have you tried making the item again?

 

[wd40bomber7]

Post the items/abilities in question and its much more likely will be able to help.

 

[Angelusz]

I just found the problem. The items had multiple abilities, the ability that triggers the cooldown has to be the first in the list for the cooldown to display. Thanks for trying, anyway.