Q W E R ability key

[wc3neverdies]

hello, i am making a map where the hero controlled by a player cna choose his abilities from a shop. i made items to add the abilities to the hero. But i want them to be easily casted by pressing the Q W E R buttons. So there is a way to give the Q shortkey to the first ability that is bought and W to the second and so on? The only way to do it for me is to create 4 abilities for each ability like, StormBoltQ StormBoltW StormBoltE and so on. There is another way to do this?

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Nope. 1 ability for each hotkey.

 

[wc3neverdies]

crap, so i have to made 72*4 abilities? :S kill me plz

 

[Bribe]

If you are adding abilities based on the user's discretion, prepare for an impossible-to-balance scenario.

What you could do, though, is group similar abilities. Ultimate on R, most-often castable spells on Q, auras or buffs on W, supportive or supplementary on E. For example:

Death Knight>
Q Death Coil
W Unholy Aura
E Death Pact
R Animate Dead

Lich>
Q Frost Nova
W Frost Armor
E Dark Ritual
R D&D

Dark Ranger>
Q Black Arrows
W Silence
E Life Drain
R Charm

This way, you don't end up with nasty scenarios like a hero having a bunch of nukes (coil, nova, carrion, storm bolt) or a bunch of self-buffs (evasion, spiked carapace, eginering upgade, Avatar) or unlimited mana (siphon, brilliance aura, dark ritual, combined with some mana-heavy thing like immolation or mana shield)

 

[Wietlol]

You can automatically create them using LUA.
However, it might be hard to understand how it works.

 

[Radicool]

If you are adding abilities based on the user's discretion, prepare for an impossible-to-balance scenario.

What you could do, though, is group similar abilities. Ultimate on R, most-often castable spells on Q, auras or buffs on W, supportive or supplementary on E....
This way, you don't end up with nasty scenarios like a hero having a bunch of nukes (coil, nova, carrion, storm bolt) or a bunch of self-buffs (evasion, spiked carapace, eginering upgade, Avatar) or unlimited mana (siphon, brilliance aura, dark ritual, combined with some mana-heavy thing like immolation or mana shield)

This is a great idea. I think custom Hero Line Wars did this. You picked 1 ability from the first shop which was put into your Q slot and if you had picked an ability, you could teleport to the next shop and pick your W ability and so on.

I think this is the only way to do it. Even if you gave up on the Q W E R format and used random letters like DOTA, you would only have enough characters for 26 abilities (or about 22 or so because a few are reserved for Attack, Stop, Move, etc). You probably need more than that.

 

[wc3neverdies]

You can automatically create them using LUA.
However, it might be hard to understand how it works.

What's LUA ?

 

[Flux]

Lua is a programmimg language. You can use lua to create Object Editor Data instead of manually creating them the old fashioned way. Read more here

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/jass-ai-scripts-tutorials-280/lua-object-generation-191740/