[Spell] Passive ability with charges

[Krogoth]

How can I make passive ability that shows charges, not importing specific icons?
Currently I use few huntress' Sentinel abilities with none targeting, all masked into passive, but they are clickable of course. It does not matter much, but maybe I am missing something?

Added:
Ability is just indicator, it must not do anything

 

[Wrda]

huntresses' sentinel ability is an ability that has its own data base, that's why it uses a charge. I don't understand what you want exactly, a passive ability with charges that does what? nothing?

 

[Nichilus]

I think he meant that he triggered his own ability and needs dummy ability that serves as both passive ability (= unclickable) and shows number of charges like huntress sentinel ability does.

 

[Krogoth]

I think he meant that he triggered his own ability and needs dummy ability that serves as both passive ability (= unclickable) and shows number of charges like huntress sentinel ability does.

Yes!

 

[Ezekiel12]

You might want to use an ability based on Orb of Lightning with multiple lvls. Every lvl hold a different ability based on Sentinel.

Alternatively you could have your hero sell a dummy unit and manage the stock by trigger, which has some other small disadvantages though. Updated the testmap.

Testmap:

 

[Krogoth]

Wow, ty ^_^
+ This is pretty neat, coz does not need to add/remove skill
- This has own disadvantage though, coz it always shows disabled (dark) icon
I am not sure now which one is better to use - clickable | properly bright or properly passive | dark
Thanks for advice, I never seemed to get this idea myself

 

[Ezekiel12]

One more method you might like:

Orb of Lightning uses the disabled version of the icon, so if you change that disabled version to an active one it is exactly what you want. One downturn though obviously is that the disabled icon is now looking active, so if you for example pause the game or your unit becomes silenced/etc the icon will still be bright. Its possible to detect game pauses/silences and switch to another ability but especially game pause detecting is very messy.

 

[Krogoth]

May be