Way to keep cooldown on spell when removed

[Killd0zer]

Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to maintain the cooldown on a spell, when you remove and later add a spell. To be more specific, I am removing a spell based off of Channel, and then adding it again, however the cooldown refreshes. I was wondering if there is a way to prevent that, or a similar work-around.

 

[x3GlikE]

Use dummy units.

 

[Killd0zer]

Use dummy units.

I don't understand what you mean. I need the cooldown to not refresh on a hero when an ability is removed from them, how do I use dummy unit to avoid that?

 

[Dr Super Good]

You could try disabling the ability for the player. This however would effect all units which should have acess to that ability.

Otherwise there is no way.

 

[x3GlikE]

I think its possible with vJASS - JASS but with GUI its nearly impossible.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I think its possible with vJASS - JASS but with GUI its nearly impossible.

It definatly is not possible. JASS is the trigger scripting language WC3 uses so is not super powerful like many people think.

An idea occured to me. You could keep track of cooldown using timers. When the ability is used, you start a timer with a timeout of the abiliti's cooldown. You then make a system to keep track of ability removal and addition. If the ability is removed before the cooldown timer (the one started when cast) finishes, then it can not be added until the timer expires (which signifies the ability has cooled down). This could be done by abstracting the add and remove process where it can only give the unit the ability if and when the cooldown timer expires otherwise until then it only virtually has it (a custom function returns the unit has the ability even though it physically does not).

This can be viewed as a form of proxy with caching functionality. Because the remove and add ability are heavyweight due to cooldown (can not remove and add without messing it up), the proxy gets interacted with which inturn manages ability removal and addition in such a way cooldown is consistent.

Be aware though that this could cause the ability to go missing for a length of time. This however is the only MUI way to do what you want.

 

[Killd0zer]

It definatly is not possible. JASS is the trigger scripting language WC3 uses so is not super powerful like many people think.

An idea occured to me. You could keep track of cooldown using timers. When the ability is used, you start a timer with a timeout of the abiliti's cooldown. You then make a system to keep track of ability removal and addition. If the ability is removed before the cooldown timer (the one started when cast) finishes, then it can not be added until the timer expires (which signifies the ability has cooled down). This could be done by abstracting the add and remove process where it can only give the unit the ability if and when the cooldown timer expires otherwise until then it only virtually has it (a custom function returns the unit has the ability even though it physically does not).

This can be viewed as a form of proxy with caching functionality. Because the remove and add ability are heavyweight due to cooldown (can not remove and add without messing it up), the proxy gets interacted with which inturn manages ability removal and addition in such a way cooldown is consistent.

Be aware though that this could cause the ability to go missing for a length of time. This however is the only MUI way to do what you want.

Interesting. The hero I'm making will only be used by 1 player at a time, so it should work fine with the way you first posted. Thanks for the help.