questions about item with charges

[millzy]

how would i be able to make this item

Soul orb
every unit killed the orb will gain souls each soul increases damage by 5 max souls you can get is 10 on death you lose all the souls

the thing is i want the amount of souls the orb has to be displayed as charges e.g the orb has 8 souls there will be 8 charges
also how do i make it so that you cant click on the item to use the charges and when its set to 0(on death) the item isent removed

 

[naughty]

Well you'll make a trigger when the unit kills another unit:

• Unit Dies
  • Events
    • Unit Dies
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Item - Set charges remaining in (Item carried by Killing Unit of type Soul Orb) to ((Charges remaining in (Item carried by Killing Unit of type Soul Orb)) + 1)

And another trigger when the hero dies:

• Unit Dies
  • Events
    • Unit Dies
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Item - Set charges remaining in (Item carried by Dying Unit of type Soul Orb) to 0)

You will just add conditions. And this is handwrite so it might not be 100% accurate.

And i forgot for making it unable to be used "Stats - Actively Used = False"

 

[millzy]

wont setting the number of charges to 0 remove the item?

 

[Inflicted]

change something that sounds something like "Is Perishable" to False.

then when it gets to 0 charges it wont be removed.

as for the damage, id do a periodic event checking the amount of charges and setting the level of an ability given to the hero when picking up the item, try using the Item Ability "Hero Damage +5" or something like that and just set like 10 levels.

and for the limit just put an IF/ELSE statement checking that charges is not equal to 10 in naughty's first trigger.

In the case that your game may have errors, i recommend having other conditions to check for example that the killing unit is in fact a hero and that it has the item first.

il giv a demo map if you want.

 

[millzy]

well yer using a unit dies and if killing unit has my item will be alot better then
perodic event

then if unit dies set charges to 0

 

[educator]

naughty has the triggers for the charges, "actively used" false, "perishable" false
and the damage can be triggered
events
a unit is attacked
conditions
actions
cause (attacking unit) to deal (5*(number of charges for(attacking unit of type soul orb))

 

[millzy]

i want it to show the bonus damage so ill use the attack bonus item ability and give it 10 levels

 

[Inflicted]

well yer using a unit dies and if killing unit has my item will be alot better then
perodic event

sorry, yeah your right.