Replacing hero with another hero of different level.

[Алексић Владица.]

How I can replace Hero A of level 11 for Hero B of level 1?

 

[UreDe4D]

you can use the "remove unit from game" action when a hero reaches level 11 to completely remove a hero from the game and then just create a new one. there is is also a "replace" action, however i do not know if this has any negative impact if you use it to replace heroes of different levels, maybe just play around with the triggers a little to find out.

 

[Dr Super Good]

One can use an inverted morph ability to change the hero type. Then there are trigger actions to change the hero level. This might not change learnable abilities and will remove any non-permanent abilities.

 

[HappyTauren]

You can't reduce the hero level. All you can do is replace the unit by another one.

 

[Rogue Kessler]

No idea if this is related to what OP wants, but I just had a weird thought. Does Chaos work as a Hero ability?

 

[HappyTauren]

You can probably use chaos to turn your hero into a unit, and then remove it to turn it back into a hero, this MIGHT reset the hero level, but I wouldn't advise this because it'll do other dumb shit like turn your bonus armor into base armor (which is extremely undesirable if there are any +armor effects, auras, etc).

 

[Dr Super Good]

You can't reduce the hero level.

You can... Tested just now with the following GUI trigger...

• Melee Initialization
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing <Empty String> as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Hero - Set Blood Mage 0000 <gen> Hero-level to (Integer((Entered chat string))), Hide level-up graphics

This uses the following JASS to do the level change.

function SetHeroLevelBJ takes unit whichHero,integer newLevel,boolean showEyeCandy returns nothing
    local integer oldLevel = GetHeroLevel(whichHero)
    if (newLevel > oldLevel) then
        call SetHeroLevel(whichHero, newLevel, showEyeCandy)
    elseif (newLevel < oldLevel) then
        call UnitStripHeroLevel(whichHero, oldLevel - newLevel)
    else
    endif
endfunction

It will even unlearn abilities that have already been learned as appropriate, at least for melee situations.

You can probably use chaos to turn your hero into a unit, and then remove it to turn it back into a hero, this MIGHT reset the hero level, but I wouldn't advise this because it'll do other dumb shit like turn your bonus armor into base armor (which is extremely undesirable if there are any +armor effects, auras, etc).

It is also extremely crash prone. Why not just set the hero to a lower level using a trigger?

 

[Алексић Владица.]

There is no way to replace hero "A" of level 11 for hero "B" of 1. But! You can remove Hero "A" from the game and create hero "B" basically he comes with 0 exp, now I only need way to give him items carried by hero "A", how to do that?

 

[Dr Super Good]

how to do that?

If one just wants to change the unit types then use inverse morph trick. Set the base form of copied Bear form ability to his new hero form. Add then immediately remove this ability and the hero's unit type is changed. All stats should be retained from the old hero including level and learnt abilities. All non-permanent abilities are lost. One can lower the hero level back to 1 using triggers, as I described above.

If one wants to change the base hero properties or learnable abilities then there is no direct way. As others suggested one has to make a new unit with the new hero type and copy across what is appropriate for it. One also has to move all group and variable references to this new unit. One would need to track tome usage and re-apply as appropriate if your map uses them.

One can move hero items across by forcing the old hero to drop all the items before it is removed, and then placing these items on the new hero unit. One can use a for loop to iterate through the various item slot numbers.

 

[Алексић Владица.]

I found a way. Easy and nice one. I mean we found it. I really don't know how I miss this.

Important:
- "Best Trainer level 2. (BTn1S)" is name of ability I using in this trigger;
- Don't need "Wait" action to work properly.
- "Beast Trainer (BTn2)" is name of hero "B" (Hero "A" transmute into hero "B").

Hope this helps you.

 

[HappyTauren]

Nice "Triggering unit" usage after a 1.00 second wait (it doesn't work, triggering unit only works if you don't use waits).

Also you have a leak @ position. Also use [trigger] tags.

 

[KILLCIDE]

iirc, triggering unit is the exception for waits

 

[HappyTauren]

iirc, triggering unit is the exception for waits

Ah right, now I remember, that's true since it's actually data local to the execution stack instance.

 

[Алексић Владица.]

Ye', also I forgot to add in my trigger hero "B" have equally percent hp and mana as a hero "A". Now it's done, so simply, so easy. Enjoy .

P.S: Also I changed my wait time just because I want 60, you can put any value.