[General] Several Spells on one Slot and Spell Book Issues

[Xadelis]

Maybe it will be my self-reflection, but I'll leave it here, but I noticed this:

I'll point out:

1. You can't add hero abilities to a book. You have to create three abilities of the corresponding level separately. It might seem like a small thing, not a problem, BUT: a book only has 11 slots... this is very inconvenient, and will most likely force you to create a book within a book.

2. The book doesn't support normal ability sorting (it sorts them not by X/Y values, but by ascending ID).

3. The book has an ID of 'spellbook', which is why trying to sort different skills into different books results in them all getting lumped together in a single book, because the game treats two different created book objects as a single book. Trying to solve this problem by assigning each book a unique ID, such as 'vodo', results in ShadowHunter's spells being broken if he uses his ultimate on a map, followed immediately by a spell from a book with the same ID.

4. A book cannot contain another book if it also has the same Spellbook ID. (This probably applies to any ID match.)

ID here is Base ID Order field

For me, the question remains open: how can we create a system for leveling up a hero so that he has the option to use 3 skills instead of one on slot 1 (the first spell slot), the same on table 2, and so on.

Maybe I don't understand something yet and am reinventing the wheel...

 

[Trill]

Yes, its an extremely clunky design.

The solution is a trigger-based leveling system, either using dummy abilities and dialog boxes to level up, or adding/removing abilities to a hero based on what he picks.
And if you want to cast mutiple abilities with a single click you can use dummy units.

 

[Goldfinger]

It's even more complicated if your hero transforms or morphs.

Anyway, you could just use an integer variable instead of actually leveling the ability itself, maybe? You can change the ability's text fields directly with triggers now.

 

[Xadelis]

It's even more complicated if your hero transforms or morphs.

Anyway, you could just use an integer variable instead of actually leveling the ability itself, maybe? You can change the ability's text fields directly with triggers now.

It's even more complicated if your hero transforms or morphs.

Anyway, you could just use an integer variable instead of actually leveling the ability itself, maybe? You can change the ability's text fields directly with triggers now.

Actually, I found a "solution," although I'm still not satisfied with it.

Using a dummy spell book. There was an article here on hive. It uses a blank book, into which spells are then written one at a time, in a specific order (the order we need). They are added as ability spellbooks. Then, in reverse order, these ability books are removed from the hero.

In general, it's probably better to implement such a system through dialog boxes.

 

[Nichilus]

If you are on version 1.31 or newer, then another option would be to use custom UI frames and imitate the entire spell selection dialog yourself.
Here's a complete tutorial: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/pastebin/e23909d8468ff4942ccea268fbbcafd1.20598#Introduction
Here's a tool: Warcraft 3 Reforged UI Designer (RUID)

 

[Xadelis]

Today I discovered the strangest thing. While I previously said that the spellbook sorts spells by ID (for example, A01Z) from lowest to highest, now I understand that if you add spells to the book one at a time using the spellbook method I described as "solving," the coordinate grid somehow also begins to "impact."

Look closely at the two examples. In the first example, "Meditation" has X0, Y2; in the second example, the same icon has X1, Y1—and that it is! This is despite the fact that I added abilities one at a time and removed them in reverse order.