Spellbook Help (with leveling up system)

[thevoden]

Its better to give an example rather than explaining this whole thing. So just read below:

Spellbooks:
Paladin Spellbook Skills:

• Level 1: Sacrifice, Prayer Aura
• Level 2: Holy Bolt

Necromancer Spellbook Skills:

• Level 1: Summon Skeleton, Skeletal Mastery
• Level 2: Summon Golem

Sorceress Spellbook:

• Level 1: Firebolt, Icebolt
• Level 2: Frost Nova

Simulation Example

1. So a hero starts with 1 free skillpoint to spend.
2. The hero spends the skillpoint to Sorceress Spellbook
3. The hero now has a set of abilities (Firebolt, Icebolt)
4. The same hero now levels up, he spends it again on Sorceress Spellbook
5. The sorceress spell book is now level 2
6. The hero now has Firebolt, Icebolt and Frost Nova
7. Alternatively the hero could've spent a skilllpoint on another spellbook.
8. So if he spent it on Necromancer Spellbook Spells intead of Sorceress.
9. He would have a lvl 1 Sorceress and Necromancer Spellbook
10. That leaves him with (Summon Skeleton, Skeletal Mastery, Firebolt and Icebolt) all level 1 spellbook spells.

How do I do this system?

Thanks!

 

[Somatic]

Use Upgrades.

Example.
Name an upgrade "Sorceress Spellbook - Level 1"
And give it subsequence level as much as you want to match with the spell book itself, and set name in each individual level to reflect the numbers of level u have.

Then for Firebolt, Icebolt, set requirment to "Sorceress Spellbook - Level 1"
Frost Nova set requirment to "Sorceress Spell Book - LEvel 1" But in the required integer put "2"

In that way, run a trigger which makes the player upgrade the "Sorceress Spell Book - Level 1" everytime u spent a skill point on the Spell Book.

Hope this helps.

FYI - This is almost the same for in NOTD - AM. Try downloading it and try the marine class "Medic". It contains a Spell book which has spells with requirment for u to level the hero skill itself to unlock.

 

[Cidzero]

Huh...and I thought they used dummy units to do that...

 

[Somatic]

Nope, using Upgrades is easier. =)

 

[thevoden]

Use Upgrades.

Example.
Name an upgrade "Sorceress Spellbook - Level 1"
And give it subsequence level as much as you want to match with the spell book itself, and set name in each individual level to reflect the numbers of level u have.

Then for Firebolt, Icebolt, set requirment to "Sorceress Spellbook - Level 1"
Frost Nova set requirment to "Sorceress Spell Book - LEvel 1" But in the required integer put "2"

In that way, run a trigger which makes the player upgrade the "Sorceress Spell Book - Level 1" everytime u spent a skill point on the Spell Book.

Hope this helps.

FYI - This is almost the same for in NOTD - AM. Try downloading it and try the marine class "Medic". It contains a Spell book which has spells with requirment for u to level the hero skill itself to unlock.

When an ability cannot be used (without the upgrade requirement) then it won't show in the spellbook right?

 

[Somatic]

-Edit- Im abit confuse with what you stated... If an ability has no upgrade requirement it would show, if it have a requirement and its not met, it would appeared disabled like being silenced.

It would show, but it cant be used. Like how Inner Fire looked like in standard games when you did not upgrade the Preist Upgrade.

If you want the skill to be hidden completely

use this

Player - Disable Ability for Player

That would hide the ability totally untill u enable the ability for the player.

 

[Cidzero]

I hate using upgrades to enable skills, mostly because upgrades fail if you do stuff like unlearn...or changing heros, getting different skills...etc...

 

[Somatic]

-Cidzero : It applies for different maps, Single Hero games will work well. And its about how you structure properly. And it saves quite alot of time in doing some cetarin upgrade.