Passive with cooldown?

[terradont]

Ok, i've encountered a problem again. When playing DotA i was impressed by the Nerubian Weaver and his Geminative attack again.
For those who don't know, it is a passive that allows him to attack twice every few seconds, and when the effect is used a cooldown appears to show how much time there is before the next double attack, just like an active spell or Reincarnation.

Now i wanted to make a skill like that(cooldown, not effect). The spell was supposed to trigger when attacked, and give the hero a shield. I first thought of berserk as dummy ability, and giving it a requirement for a special dummy unit. When the hero was attacked, i would simply add a unit, order the hero to use berserk, and remove the unit. This made the skill look ugly though as the icon became active for 0.10 every time someone attacks.

Should i import the disabled button and use as a normal button so that it wont be noticed(haven't tried that), or is there a better way?

 

[Razorbrain]

the way it works in DotA is that its an Orb, which will cast any Target spell on the unit you are attacking(you can set it to have an %chance to proc, but anyway) if its supposed to add a shield to the attacker, you should use triggers

now, is this going to happend Every time someone attacks or should it be a %chance, and you want it to show cooldown aswell?

 

[terradont]

It is going to trigger when attacked(without cooldown, no %chance), and the cooldown should be shown. I managed to get it to work MPI, it just doesnt look nice when the icon pops from disabled to active all the time

That's why i asked if theres a better way.

 

[Razorbrain]

well, you could just make a Orb that doesnt do anything, and have a Countdown Timer as the cooldown for the real effect

 

[terradont]

That could work, i'm going to test it tomorrow.(cannot right now)

 

[spiwn]

Yes - an orb based skill with some cooldown seems to be the case in Dota.
But I wonder if ...
Oh, I will experiment these days, and will say if I find anything interesting.

 

[Razorbrain]

good, im going on vacation so i cant help tomorrow or for a week atleast, but i know that you know what you are doing spiwn

 

[spiwn]

I will be experimenting will cooldown groups on passives - have a passive and an active to be in the same cd group.
Activate the active.
I hope this will start the cd of the passive

 

[Razorbrain]

well, here is what i know atleast

if you have Dodge on 1 item and Spell Shield on another, whenever the unit dodges(or is hit, cant remember) the Spell Shield item will for some reason get a 1 sec cooldown(im not sure its really a cooldown, it just shows that)

EDIT : Oh wait, that might have to do with the fact that they are in spellbooks in my map, but im not sure that will make any difference