Preloading abilites

[kentzeus]

Hello, I've read that you need to add ability to a dummy unit to preload it, isn't there a easier way? I mean since you can choose a path to preload couldn't you just load an entire folder of the custom stuff, or maybe there isn't one? It's a ton of work to do it the other way, I have so many custom things.. Please tell me this is possible

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

I mean since you can choose a path to preload couldn't you just load an entire folder of the custom stuff

To my knowledge this should work fine. Just try it then you will find out. If you have a lot of stuff to preload you will have a huge lag spike, that way you know if it works or not

 

[Tasyen]

Custom abilities could be iterated theoretically which could result into an automzied process with only a small setup. I think there are some vjass resources making this iterateration more easy:
[vJASS] - NextPrev ObjectId
[vJASS] - BJObjectId

 

[Pyrogasm]

Preloading an ability is different than preloading a model/texture asset. Abilities must be done through adding it to a unit (Tasyen provided some resources for automating this if you really don’t want to) and other resources can use the Preload() native. Both will require you to type out some code.

 

[kentzeus]

Custom abilities could be iterated theoretically which could result into an automzied process with only a small setup. I think there are some vjass resources making this iterateration more easy:
[vJASS] - NextPrev ObjectId
[vJASS] - BJObjectId

Thanks but I have no idea how to use this, it's way too confusing for me haha

 

[Tasyen]

For learnable skills there is also the Option to have preplaced units on the map that have all the skills learned. This units are removed as soon the map starts. Still requires to load sub skills by Code/Trigger.

 

[Ceday]

If you only used custom abilities on your map, with custom I mean you didn't edit and use already existing storm bolt but created a new ability based on storm bolt and used that one, they probably have similar id in the editor starting from A000 to AXXX. You can loop through and add/remove A000, A001, A002 etc.
If you are going to do it one by one, you might as well start with only abilities higher maximum levels. Those cause higher spikes when they first appear in the game.