LF Ability System for Heroes with 6+ Abilities

[thatkyle]

Does one exist? Spent a couple hours searching through the tools section and google but haven't seen any so far. Not asking how to do it, just if anyone is aware if such a system has already been published.

Huge shoutout to this community also. Long time lurker first time poster. You guys make some awesome stuff and the information here is incredible!!

 

[Uncle]

If you're on 1.31+ then you could create custom UI that bypasses all of these limitations. Luckily, Tasyen has already created a system for this:

TasHeroLearnEx

Introduction TasHeroLearnEx is a custom UI system/addition for Warcraft 3 V1.31 or higher, in Lua or vjass. It allows units/heroes to learn abilities from a custom/bigger Abilitypool. Details There is a new Box with AbilityIcons when you click any of them your current selected unit or shared...

www.hiveworkshop.com

Otherwise, here are some other methods:

Is there a way to put more than 5 Hero abilities on a Hero?

I just want to make use of those buttons, that's all.

www.hiveworkshop.com

 

[thatkyle]

Yep this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! And thank you Uncle for one of your posts about Lua a few months back. You specifically inspired me to get into map dev and I'm loving it! I'm here because of you, and on my first post you're the first response! How about that

 

[Uncle]

Yep this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! And thank you Uncle for one of your posts about Lua a few months back. You specifically inspired me to get into map dev and I'm loving it! I'm here because of you, and on my first post you're the first response! How about that

That's awesome, I hope you enjoy it.

 

[emperor_d3st]

It's also possible for older War3 versions. The way I did it:
1.) Hide the learn ability button from the UI
2.) Create all your hero abilities as normal abilities.
3.) You have to keep a real hero ability on each hero, otherwise the heroes will have no skill points. (I used Carrion Beetles, don't remember if there was any significance why)
4.) Create "Learn X Ability" abilities, and put them into a spellbook.
5.) Trigger a simple system that fires when using the Learn abilities -> check for conditions, such as, having enough skill points, being high enough level for the respective ability level, then remove a skill point.

+.) It also makes sense to remove the move and patrol buttons from the UI so you have more real estate for extra abilities