Swap between ranged and melee

[Teaspoon]

Does anyone know some system that might work for swapping between ranged and melee items? I want the hero to be able (through a skill) to swap his item "sword" to the item "bow" and then make a bow appear on the character instead of a sword, also increasing range and damage. When you've swapped weapons you can always swap back to melee.

 

[SlayerII]

you may use the morph abilty from the druid of the claw.
Lets say your hero is Meele and you want him to change into a range hero jusr make a second hero with same stats and just change the range and model.Then give both the morph ability.

 

[D3athM3at]

Well im using this in my map for auto morph:

• Frostmourne Change
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Acquires an item
  • Conditions
    • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Bow
        • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Sword
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • And - All (Conditions) are true
          • Conditions
            • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Sword
            • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
              • Conditions
                • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Your unit type
                • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Your unit type2
      • Then - Actions
        • Item - Remove (Item being manipulated)
        • Hero - Create Sword and give it to (Triggering unit)
      • Else - Actions

And heres how manual should look:

• Swap manual
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Uses an item
  • Conditions
    • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Tome of Experience
        • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Tome of Experience
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Bow
      • Then - Actions
        • Item - Remove (Item being manipulated)
        • Hero - Create Sword and give it to (Triggering unit)
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Sword
      • Then - Actions
        • Item - Remove (Item being manipulated)
        • Hero - Create Bow and give it to (Triggering unit)
      • Else - Actions

and then you can make give abillity or upgrade to change to melee or ranged attack

 

[SlayerII]

you cant make it this way cause there is NO abilty which changes ranges and you cant unupgrade upgrades

 

[D3athM3at]

Well if you know how to use triggers you can..

 

[Teaspoon]

I don't want him to morph into any other unit, and if it doesn't work I'll have to go without it then...

 

[MortAr]

I would use an upgrade for range, one that decreases by 500 for example (I dunno if you can put negative values there), I think they made it in the same way in DotA too. Or use the Berserk upgrade, it still a type of morph but it will not take time.