Reduce Tech Level

[Mr_Bean]

Hi,

I am trying to make a toggle-able ability where if you activate it, your hero's range increases. When you click it again, it switches to another ability and your range goes back to default. I am having trouble removing the tech. I created an upgrade that increases the range and that works, but I cannot reduce the attack range again.

Any help?

Thanks,

Mr_Bean

 

[defskull]

It is a hard-coded engine in Warcraft III that lets you to increase unit's range, but never decrease it (by reducing the tech level).

You need to create an upgrade that works 2 ways, Level 1 Upgrade will increase range, Level 2 Upgrade will decrease range and so on, but that will take you to a limit because how many Upgrades you intend to do, right ?

Perhaps you can achieve by setting the unit's acquisition range to dynamically change, and use the Conditions;

• (Current acquisition range of (Triggering unit)) Less than or equal to 500.00

 

[ic3_water]

It is a hard-coded engine in Warcraft III that lets you to increase unit's range, but never decrease it (by reducing the tech level).

You need to create an upgrade that works 2 ways, Level 1 Upgrade will increase range, Level 2 Upgrade will decrease range and so on, but that will take you to a limit because how many Upgrades you intend to do, right ?

Perhaps you can achieve by setting the unit's acquisition range to dynamically change, and use the Conditions;

• (Current acquisition range of (Triggering unit)) Less than or equal to 500.00

This trigger never work on reducing attack range

 

[defskull]

I never said to reduce it, you can prevent that unit to issue order Stop if its current Acq. Range is lower than expected.

 

[Kala]

Yep, defskull is right. But there might be other ways to do it.

You could use Druid of the Claws transformation
Like the normal form has short range, and the "bear" form has longer range.

 

[defskull]

Ah yesss, just like Troll's ability from DotA, eh ?

 

[Mr_Bean]

So should I give that a try?

EDIT: Would the best way be to make Bear Form have 4 levels and create 4 new units, each with a slightly higher attack range?

 

[defskull]

Of course.
The passive hero transformation would work.

 

[ic3_water]

Becarefull when transform/replace unit. Because it cause all unit variable which have connection with that unit to be removed.

 

[defskull]

Replace will cause that problem, but morphing (default ability) does not, I think.

 

[Mr_Bean]

It shouldn't. I will give it a shot.

 

[Mr_Bean]

Update:
So I created an ability based of Bear Form, and created a new version of the hero which has 150 more range. However, when the hero casts the ability, the transformed hero doesn't get extra range. Any ideas? Should I not have based it off Bear Form?

 

[WaterKnight]

Have you increased the acquisition range as well? Because it limits the attack range.

 

[Mr_Bean]

But I move my mouse over the attack icon, and it says that the attack range is 600 instead of 750. Surely acquisition range won't change what actually displays in-game?

 

[defskull]

It's under Combat - Acquisition Range in Object Editor.
You can have an attack range less than or equal to that Acquisition Range, but cannot be greater.

Since you have a 600 Acquisition Range in Object Editor for that unit, that unit can't have attack range more than 600 even if you set the Combat - Attack 1 - Range to a higher value than 600.

In other words, you must change it first before applying a higher value of Acq. Range.

 

[Mr_Bean]

Okay, thanks. That fixed it!