Question about spell cooldowns

[Versae]

Alright, after some looking around I've discovered that spell cooldowns cannot be manipulated. Yet, when your remove a spell from a hero and add it again the cooldown gets completely reset.

So my question is: how would you make a hero that (a bit like DotA's Invoker) has many spells, each with its own cooldown yet the spell isn't always shown?

I haven't checked in the editor too much if there is a way to hide a spell (make it unusable and have a hidden icon), if there is then the answer to this question is pretty obvious, but if there isn't then I really am curious as to how the DotA dev team pulled it off.

 

[Imp Midna]

As Long as you are moving around in the expansion pack, Disable Spell will do what you want as far as i can recall. In roc Disable Spell has different behaviour though and will not hide the spell nor make you unable to use it.

 

[Versae]

Well that's awesome, I didn't think it would be that simple!

So does that also mean that a hero can have an unlimited amount of spells as long as all but 6 are disabled?

 

[KaerfNomekop]

If it doesn't, you could use an Engineering Upgrade ability to replace those abilities with dummy abilities based off Channel, with the same cooldowns but no Visible option.

 

[Versae]

Well Imp's solution worked for me (decided to make a map that includes a hero with many spells )...

Just wondering though, is there a way to make a spell go on cooldown from the editor? I know we can't manipulate cooldowns, but we can remove them so is there a way to put it on cooldown (preferably without having to cast the spell)?

 

[Amn]

Well Imp's solution worked for me (decided to make a map that includes a hero with many spells )...

Just wondering though, is there a way to make a spell go on cooldown from the editor? I know we can't manipulate cooldowns, but we can remove them so is there a way to put it on cooldown (preferably without having to cast the spell)?

i spent a lot of time trying to get that effect, i got nothing but a strange combination using Create Corpse ability with 1 max corpse, then by trigger i enable and disable the ability to make it go on cooldown. (or something like that, i cant remember)

 

[vypur85]

The abilities Berserk and Windwalk are instant casters. Just remove your original casting ability and add either of the abilities and order your unit to cast them. The cooldown will take place. The actions will be instant that it isn't noticeable. But your unit's current order will be disrupted. That's the downside. And it requires laborious triggering... Might not be so friendly.

This also means a single unit can only have 2 separate abilities with this system. Otherwise the order string will mess up.