[Spell] Item into Spell

[cluGAmERsy]

How can I make the item that the hero bought into a spell when he goes into a region? Thanks in advance

 

[Magtheridon96]

You're going to need knowledge of hashtables for this.

First, on Map initialization, you have to save abilities into the hashtable using the keys of the items that get turned into them.

• Trigger
  • Events
    • Map Initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Hashtable - Create a hashtable
    • Set HASHTABLE = (Last created hashtable)
    • ------ Start adding abilities here ------
    • Save Ability ABILITY with key(ITEM) by 0 in HASHTABLE
    • ------ Set booleans to determine whether an item can be changed to an ability or not
    • Save boolean True with key(ITEM) by 1 in HASHTABLE

When a unit goes into a region, check all of his items and see if (Load boolean with key (ITEM_ID_OF_YOUR_ITEM) by 1 from HASHTABLE) equals to true.

If it does, it means that this item should be converted to an ability.
Now, the second thing we do is store the ability into a variable:

• Set TempAbility = (Load Ability with key (ITEM_ID_OF_YOUR_ITEM) by 0 from HASHTABLE)

Now, we remove the item from the game, and give the unit the Ability TempAbility:

• Unit - Give TempAbility to UNIT

 

[cluGAmERsy]

how do i know the ability id?

 

[Magtheridon96]

You don't need to
In GUI, abilities are actually just IDs directly, and so are unit-types, item-types, and other '-types' ^.^ (buff-type, destructable-type, etc..)

edit
But in case you really want to, in the object editor, typing Ctrl+D should bring up all the ability ids in the form of Raw Codes.
Raw Codes are four-digit numbers in Base-256 (which is much greater than Base-10 (decimal))
They use characters like "!@#$%^&*()-=_+><.,/?';":][{}`~QWERTYUIOPKLJHGFDSAZXCVBNMpoiuytrewqasdfghjklmnbvcxz1234567890" and other symbols you aren't going to care about
Ability Ids typically start at 'A000', then they increase by 1 everytime you create a new ability:
'A000'
'A001'
'A002'
...
'A009'
'A00A'
'A00B'
...
'A00Z'
'A010'
etc...

 

[cluGAmERsy]

okay thanks!

 

[Maker]

Saving an ability with the GUI hashtable doesn't work as far as I remember. You need to save the raw code as an integer.

 

[cluGAmERsy]

thanks