Morph Spell Problems

[Accname]

actually the buffs are also lost. i think thats not what hes looking for.

 

[Gtam]

Yes he wants to keep the buffs

 

[roXplosive]

I imagine how retarded this is but can't you spawn an enemy dummy that has no allies and make it spellsteal you until you got no buffs left ? Then morph or replace followed with spellstealing the buffs back .

 

[Gtam]

Then Accnames way would be better.

 

[MateoSoetsu]

@ Accname, I tried the metamorphosis but anytime I try to change a hero into a non-hero, the hero either goes non-responsive and doesn't move or it morphs and then dies instantly. You said you tested it, what stats did you have on the metamorphosis and Chaos, because I can't have a demon hunter transform into a footman no matter what I do.

 

[MateoSoetsu]

bump still trying to get ahold of Accname, I pm'd you.

If anyone else has gotten his method to work, a more in depth explaination would be appreciated. I still can't go from Hero 1 > unit 1 > hero 2 without the hero just dying and dropping all of his items. I used Metamorphosis and then chaos and I've also tried chaos and then chaos again and neither seem to work the way Accname tested/confirmed.

 

[Accname]

here. i made you a test map where you can change your paladin to a bloodmage. items buffs and such stay but the level is set back to 0 as well as their armor and hitpoints increase with each use.

Offtopic:Also please note that bumping a thread is only allowed after 24 hours

 

[MateoSoetsu]

Oh, I thought I was in the clear at ~18hours before I bumped.

I've been playing around with it for awhile now. I figured out how to fix the hitpoint gain: just set the metamorphosis to the difference between the life of the Hero 1 and Hero 2 and then shift click and make it negative. As for the armor gain I am working on a trigger to lower their armor before they change so it doesn't keep stacking up. I'm going to add the abilities into my map so I can test it there, since I have changed the gameplay constants for armor it will be different numbers.

Thanks a lot Accname, I'm sure this will be useful to other users in the future and its something that has been a problem for my map for awhile.

+rep

Just for the sake of the search feature, I did finish this, although it may lag on bnet. I fixed the armor problem by setting the heroes agility to a # that makes his base armor + agility = 0, this stops the unit from gaining more armor every time it changes forms. I fixed the hitpoint problem by giving the hero tomes of life -25hp for every point of strength that the unit has, so he isn't gaining twice as much hitpoints per point of strength when he changes forms. They are both weird bugs from using the metamorphosis and chaos abilities.

In its final form I have a metamorphosis that turns my (melee/normal attack/strength based hero) into a (ranged/magic attack/intelligence based hero) and gives them an option to change back while keeping their hp, armor, xp, and attributes and hero skills the exact same before and after. It is quite a useful trick and I will be using it often in my map if it doesn't leak/lag and if I can get the triggers all MUI.