Item disables spells

[PrisonLove]

Is there a way to make it so that when a hero picks up an item it cannot cast any spells. I would prefer to do this without using soul burn, as it can be dispelled and that would be a big no no.

Lines of JASS code are welcomed if that's where the solution lies.

 

[Hugget Sukker]

• Stop Casting
• Events
  • A unit begins casting an ability
• Conditions
  • Or - Multiple conditions
    • (Item-type of (Item carried by (Triggering unit) in slot 1)) Equal to NoCastItem
    • (Item-type of (Item carried by (Triggering unit) in slot 2)) Equal to NoCastItem
    • (Item-type of (Item carried by (Triggering unit) in slot 3)) Equal to NoCastItem
    • (Item-type of (Item carried by (Triggering unit) in slot 4)) Equal to NoCastItem
    • (Item-type of (Item carried by (Triggering unit) in slot 5)) Equal to NoCastItem
    • (Item-type of (Item carried by (Triggering unit) in slot 6)) Equal to NoCastItem
• Actions
  • Unit - Order Triggering unit to Stop

 

[wolfman]

((Triggering unit) has an item of type Tome of Experience) Equal to (==) True

Just do that for condition instead of using 6 conditions. Its a boolean comparison.

 

[PrisonLove]

Okay that could be an option but I would prefer for it to gray out the buttons so that they cannot even be cast.

 

[wolfman]

Make the ability require a research. When the game starts set every players research level for that research to 1. When a hero acquires an item set the research level for the ability you wanna disable to 0. That might work but im not sure.

 

[Adiktuz]

Make the ability require a research. When the game starts set every players research level for that research to 1. When a hero acquires an item set the research level for the ability you wanna disable to 0. That might work but im not sure.

this looks a good way to do this.... but it will show a requirement once the upgrade is set to 0 and it would not look like really silenced.. but I think your idea is the best simplest way to do this...

 

[Maker]

Another option is to check when the item is picked up, then save all ability levels to integers, remove the abilities and add the same abilities, but dummy versions to the unit. Then restore the ability levels. Create grayed-out icons for the dummy spells. Should be simple with any decent image processing software.

 

[Hugget Sukker]

Make the ability require a research. When the game starts set every players research level for that research to 1. When a hero acquires an item set the research level for the ability you wanna disable to 0. That might work but im not sure.

Hmm.. I thought that was impossible. I thought it was impossible to remove an upgrade level, i.e. setting the current research level to a lower integer than it allready is...?

Another option is to check when the item is picked up, then save all ability levels to integers, remove the abilities and add the same abilities, but dummy versions to the unit. Then restore the ability levels. Create grayed-out icons for the dummy spells. Should be simple with any decent image processing software.

That's a good sollution, yes.

 

[wolfman]

Yeah you might not be able to set the research level backwards thats why i said i wasnt sure :/

 

[meOme]

You can also give the Item a modified Engineering-Upgrade-Ability that exchanges the Hero-Abilities for Dummy-Ones. Doesn't need a single trigger and you can change the abilities any way you want, make them uncastable, change the icons, etc.
Only downside is that you can't use Engineering-Upgrade for anything else anymore, but if you don't use it anyway, this should work for you.

PS: If a non-hero-unit takes up an item with an Engineering-Upgrade-Ability, the game crashes. Just to warn you. If you have non-hero-items with an inventory, you still need a trigger.