Why are my custom ability tooltops displaying as gibberish?

[Greenwhy]

I have only experienced this problem recently. The tooltips of my custom abilities seem to display incorrectly, they just say random things which keep changing.

There are examples of the tooltips i see in game

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For the most part I got around this problem by not using references to mana cost or ability duration etc (eg lasts <A004,Dur1> seconds) because I was convinced that this was somehow causing the problem. However I now have an ability which is causing issues even without the use of those reference tags.

I remember using these reference tags when I was into mapping over 5 years ago and I never had a problem with them.

What is going on?

 

[WaterKnight]

While tags were never working wholly, your scenario is most-likely due to you using item abilities (abilities which are flagged as item abilities on default). Those were not really intented to display tooltips.

 

[shadowvzs]

While tags were never working wholly, your scenario is most-likely due to you using item abilities (abilities which are flagged as item abilities on default). Those were not really intented to display tooltips.

same, i tryed item ability use like unit ability at few ability have this crap (but not at every ability and indifferent i changed the tooltip from default)

i think only thing what u could do is useing normal unit ability,no?

 

[Greenwhy]

While tags were never working wholly, your scenario is most-likely due to you using item abilities (abilities which are flagged as item abilities on default). Those were not really intented to display tooltips.

Thanks for your suggestion. I have used item abilities so I thought that might be it actually the ability in question is not an item ability and nor was the base ability.

The base ability is bloodlust
I changed the "hero ability" from false to true.
I changed the "race" from orc to human
I do not want a movement speed increase so these fields are set to 0. I wondered if this would cause an issue so I tested the ability with these fields set to 0.1 but the problem persisted.

 

[shadowvzs]

Thanks for your suggestion. I have used item abilities so I thought that might be it actually the ability in question is not an item ability and nor was the base ability.

The base ability is bloodlust
I changed the "hero ability" from false to true.
I changed the "race" from orc to human
I do not want a movement speed increase so these fields are set to 0. I wondered if this would cause an issue so I tested the ability with these fields set to 0.1 but the problem persisted.

u can do anything that problem stay if u use several item ability like unit/hero ability. use unit ability or make dummy bloodlust based on channel just changed base order id to bloodlust then add original bloodlust to spellbook and at map init disable spellbook=>when player click to channel its start the real bloodlust too coz same base order id and since it is on disable spellbook then u cant see the real bloodlust icon just get the effect and buff

 

[Greenwhy]

OK but bloodlust is not an item ability....

 

[shadowvzs]

OK but bloodlust is not an item ability....

i thought it has also a item ability variation like berserk.

(i never noticed any unit ability got gibbrish tooltip when i added it [but maybe learn tooltip same gibrish if u make unit=>hero ability than item=>unit])