Adding Spelldamage With Items

[Crazy_Dead]

I was playing DotA( Defense of the Ancients ), and I got Scepter, which im gonna talk about here. It increases damage and decreases cooldown with all certain spells.

So i was thinking, how did IceFrog code this? :nuts:

Greeeetzzz

Crazy_Dead.

 

[hgkjfhfdsj]

decreases cooldown with all certain spells.
- engineering upgrade
- i dont think sceptre decreases cooldown?? lol which spell
increases damage
these are usually in conditions of a specific spell, eg

set level = level of 'ability' for triggerunit
if triggering unit has item xx then 
     set level = level + 1 //or something
endif

and then later the damage will be adjusted to level * 200
which becomes '800' when unit is holding item if level of ability for unit is 3.

 

[Crazy_Dead]

But, if i have it in level 3, what happens? It gotta add damage, on some way.

 

[DL.PIGGY]

Use engineering Upgrade. Make multiple copies of the spell, each with more dmg or less cooldown or wadeva

 

[Crazy_Dead]

How to add enginering update to a spell?

 

[DL.PIGGY]

No you USE engineering upgrade as your spell. Then u make multiple spells of the spell u want to improve. say u want to improve frost nova. so u copy and paste your frost nova and u edit the 2nd frost nova by giving it more dmg and less cooldown. then u put both frost novas into the data part in engineering upgrade. i cant remember wad the field is exactly at the moment. i think its upgrade or something.

 

[Crazy_Dead]

Thanks. But then i will need too remove the existing ability and then add Enginering Update, when a unit aquries that item.
Thanks! Cant rep.

 

[DL.PIGGY]

add engineeringupgrade to the item itself.

 

[Jonnycakes]

Also, I am pretty sure that there is a different Aghanim's Scepter item for each hero that uses it. For example, if witch doctor picks up a scepter, it is instantly replaced with the witch doctor version (so it applies to his ultimate). Alternatively, if leshrac picked up a scepter, it would become the leshrac version. This also lets you add different special art attachments to each different hero.

 

[Sartan]

i belive they add the spell ina hidden spellbook rather than creating ALOT of diffrent items for each hero...

 

[Bogrim]

The best way to do this would be to create a damage system and deal all your damage with triggers, then you can easily factor in things like damage increase from items.

 

[Jonnycakes]

i belive they add the spell ina hidden spellbook rather than creating ALOT of diffrent items for each hero...

Well, the scepter has a suffix in its tooltip that corresponds to the hero who carries it. Unless there is a way to change an item's tooltip via trigger, they would have to be different items.