Spell Books with construction orderID

[azgarol]

I discovered a pretty neat feature, that wasn't covered in spellbook guides like this The Theory Behind Spellbooks and that How to: Make Spellbooks and wanted to share it.

Colliding spellbooks also works with a build button, if you set the orderID to the corresponding build order of a unit's race: "humanbuild", "orcbuild", "undeadbuild", "nightelfbuild", "nagabuild" and "build". This way you can have buildings mixed with spells (for whatever reason you would want that).

I used it to hide build button from some units, who could still build if ordered with triggers, while not hiding it from other units. For that purpose I made the button position of undead build to (0, -11) and gave units that dont need this button hidden an empty spellbook collided with undeadbuild. When pressed it opens a standard build menu.

 

[Trill]

Hm, I think it would be very useful if one tried to replicate Warcraft III Alpha, where most Undead buildings were more like permanent spells cast onto the base, and required Mana instead of gold to build.

 

[Prometheus3375]

I want to add to this. Spells from spellbook will fill empty places for icons (in the order they added in spellbook) after icons of structures, so, unit can still build all mentioned in OE structures along using spells from spellbook.

 

[Pyrogasm]

This might be one of the coolest little hacks I've ever seen posted about here!!! Fucking well done, dudes!

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Some mod should add this info to the spellbook tutorials or the relevant wc3 ability guides here on THW.

 

[NEL]

Also you can use the Spellbook with Select Unit/Hero ability to display the drop rate of the items and he can able to cast his spells.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Lol @Pyrogasm x4.
xD

So like what? Spellbook used as a build-tree? Neat... Trying to figure out how to use this.

 

[Prometheus3375]

Trying to figure out how to use this.

I made spellbook with undeadbuild id and added to it an ability that that is based on 'Build Tiny Tower' with build time 0. Now one type of towers constructs immediately.

 

[Prometheus3375]

I found a bug with this feature.

Built constructions are not count in final statistics screen if you use spellbook with the same order id as build menu of your worker.

UPD 26.04: added test map with this issue.