I need some help with an ability I'm trying to create

[Inkursus]

I'm trying to make an ability for a hero, and I'm having a lot of problems with it. The ability will cause the hero to "mimic" another hero and turn into the target hero for a set amount of time, like 20 seconds (for example, if mimic was used on a paladin, the hero would turn into a paladin). From my knowledge, there's no base ability similiar to this that I cna copy, so I tried using triggers.

Basically what I have now is a trigger set up that recognizes the ability being cast, and then creates the target hero type unit at the casting unit. It then moves the casting unit off-map. After 20 seconds, it removes the created unit and moves the original hero back. This however, does not work well. It is very buggy, often doesn't work, and looks very messy. Though the "replace unit" effect would work better, the original hero loses all abilities and levels.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this working?

 

[Cres]

Can you post the trigger? Or do you want to make another one?

 

[ShaiTan-Enk]

If you save the original hero as a variable, does it still lose all abilities/levels when you use replace unit?

 

[Inkursus]

Cres, I want to make a new trigger. What I have right now is just a mess.

 

[Inkursus]

If I save the hero as a variable, the hero still retains the level and abilities. However, the hero always returns with full health, mana, and with no cooldowns. This would allow the hero to continuously cast the mimic ability (it's intended to be a 60 second cooldown).

 

[ShaiTan-Enk]

Well, you can store the health and mana integers as variables too, but I don't know how you can change the cooldown of that particular spell. Sorry =\

 

[Pyromancer]

change the cool down in the object editor, in abilities. as for a trigger, heres one:

Events: A unit casts an ability
Conditions: Ability equal to mimmic
Actions: Set variable Life[Player number of owner of triggering unit] equal to life of triggering unit
           Set variable Manna[Player number of owner of triggering unit] equal to manna of triggering unit
           Set variable Hero[Player number of owner of triggering unit] equal to triggering unit
           Replace triggering unit with targeted unit
           Start mimmic_timer[Player number of owner of triggering unit] as a oneshot timer that will expire in 20 seconds
           Set variable mimmicer equal to number of owner of triggering unit
           Set variable mimmic_victom[Player number of owner of trigggering unit] equal to targetted unit

and the get it back trigger:

Events: mimmic_timer expires
Conditions:
Actions: Replace mimmic_victom[mimmicer] with hero[mimmicer
            Set life of last created unit equal to Life[mimmicer]
            Set manna of last created unit equal to Manna[mimmicer]

i doubt if it will work, but its worth a trie.....

hope that helped,
Pyromancer

 

[Cres]

why not just set the life/mana of the unit the same as what the mimic has beofer it expires, this prevents "exploiting" the free mimic (like suicide runs) and for cooldowns, it shouldnt be much of a problem as long as you timer it (like start the timer after they cast, removing the ability, then when the timer runs out, restoring it to the hero. A bit crude but it works)

 

[AceHart]

Maybe something like:

hide hero
pause hero
add ability "invulnerable"
create unit-type of targeted unit at position of hero
wait
remove "invulnerable"
unpause hero
unhide hero
move hero to position of mimic

 

[Inkursus]

Thanks for all of the help, I got it working now. The only problem left is that when a hero dies, they are revived back at the base. When the unit mimics and turns into another hero and dies as that hero, the player doesn't get the mimicer back, they get the victim. Any solutions besides making him invulnerable?

 

[Tapion69]

I'm not sure how to do what I'm about to say, but it might be better to have the caster of mimmic metamorphosise into the targeted unit. That way when the hero dies as that unit they should still count as the original hero and respawn. But like I said I'm not sure how to do that.

 

[0cossin77]

Mabe something like,

E: Unit - A unit dies
C: Unit- (Triggering unit) Equal to (Mimicer <gen>)
A: Unit- Revive (Trigering unit)
Trigger - Run (Mimicer Return <gen>)
Wait- (0.01) Gametime seconds
Unit- Kill (Trigering Unit)

I did this freehand so it might be a little scratchy, and I did this assuming that in the trigger that makes him turn back to his actual form uses
Unit- Replace (Mimicer_Target_form <gen>) with unit (actual form)

otherwise you would have to do something else

 

[mems]

i have seen a spell in wc3sear.ch that does what you exactly need i dunt remember its name it has done by a person called vexorian(or wexorian) i remember take some time there you may find it at spells section