Order string

[NightSkyAurora]

I'm working on porject called Orb Craft. If you pick up 3 orbs then they combine to give you a permanent ability that depends on the elements of the orbs you had. So basicly ANY hero can have ANY abilities, therefore EVERY ability must have a diffirent order string and I ran out of strings
Is there any other alternative way to cast abilities without order strings? if not, how can I give abilities the same order string without making it buggy?

 

[deathismyfriend]

i believe it only gets buggy if the same unit has 2 or more abilities w the same order string u can limit the abilities into groups. ex spell 1 2 and 3 are in group 1. spell 4 5 and 6 are in group 2. if unit is given spell number 2 then u can prevent him from getting spells 1 and 3.
tht way u will be fine

 

[NightSkyAurora]

Sounds reasonable, but then I can't build any ability set anymore because some abilities won't stack then

 

[MortAr]

You could use "Channel" to use them via triggers with a dummy, as only the "Channel" ability provides an option to choose the order.

 

[deathismyfriend]

abilities can stack just make sure the ability sets dont have any order strings w the same one.

also if u meant base order id then channel is the way to go. like what mortar said

 

[NightSkyAurora]

It worked! thanks to you two
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Wait, one last thing: how do I make the AI 'channel' those abilities

 

[deathismyfriend]

you have to trigger everything for ai

 

[NightSkyAurora]

Uhm... that channel idea doesn't stack for any abilities. I took storm bolt and frost bolt and gave them bouth the channel order string. I gave bouth abilities for blood mage but when I cast Storm bolt, it cast frost bolt instead.

you have to trigger everything for ai

^ I'm aware of that, thanks
about AI: I found the 'channel' instruction but you can't give it a target

 

[MortAr]

You use the order chosen from the "order id" field.

For example, if you choose "stormbolt" as "order id", you order the dummy to cast "Human Mountain King - Storm Bolt".

 

[NightSkyAurora]

Oh now see what mean. so I create a invisible dummy to cast the ability for the hero?

 

[MortAr]

Yes, you can use "none.mdl" for the dummy model and add the "Locust" ability so it can have no model and become untargetable and invulerable to units.

 

[NightSkyAurora]

Ah, but how would the computer know wich dummy to spawn? for example if I have a storm bolt dummy and a frost blot dummy with bouth the same order id and I cast storm bolt, won't the triggers spawn the frost bolt dummy instead?

 

[MortAr]

You can use one dummy for all spells.
Use "Unit - Add Ability" to add the specific ability for the event and order it to cast it.

If you can't understand, open some GUI map from the spell-section and you'll see how its done.

 

[NightSkyAurora]

Thanks for all your help, I understand what you mean.

+rep