Shop Icon Question

[CuteCumber]

I have a shop that sells recipe item. However, i dont know how to make an icon of a reicpe item that does not require recipe scroll. Example: Items in dota such as battle fury, vanguard. The item is unclickable but there is tooltip. Any suggestion?? Thank you.

P.S.: Grammar mistakes

 

[ludnica]

They are units though, not items. You can make several dummy units with recipe icons and when someone buys an "item", trigger it so if it requires a recipe to remove the dummy unit from the game and give the desired item, or display an error message - if it doesn't require a recipe.

 

[CuteCumber]

Erm. I not really understand that? If I create dummy unit, how am I supose to put the tooltip as it is like aan item? An also how do i add the unit in to the shop without the number '1' at the bottom left corner of the icon?? Thank you.

 

[ludnica]

Lets get started, shall we

First - go to your object editor and create a dummy unit (the unit has locust - ability, model set to none.mdl, food cost to 0, and all of its attacks disabled). Change its icon to your desired item icon.
Next is the stock replenish interval set to 1, and stock maximum set to 1 (these two represent how many items can be bought per 1 second interval).

Second - create a shop based of Arcane Vault for example and give it the following abilities: Shop Purchase Item and Select Unit. While still looking at your shop, go to the field "Techtree - Units Sold" and add the units, which will represent items, there.

Third - the actual trigger that will replace the unit with your item:

• Item Replace
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Sells a unit
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Sold unit)) Equal to <Your Unit (dummy item)>
  • Actions
    • Unit - Remove (Sold unit) from the game
    • Hero - Create <Your Item> and give it to (Buying unit)

You're done and can add up to 16 items in a shop. I hope that covers everything.

 

[CuteCumber]

What if I want the icon to be unclickable and it is without the stock maximum number(the small 1 at the right bottom)? Thank you.

 

[ludnica]

There's no way you can remove the "1" from the shop. As to making it unable for players to click: simply make a passive ability, with all the description and stuff, and give it to your shop.