Tinker Transform alternative...

Well, while reading about what the Tinker's spells can do, I suddenly realized that its Robo-Transform might be able to be modded to work for Medivh, with Crow Form finally as a hero ability. I've already overwritten my 402 beta patch, so I can't test this idea out now. Anyone who still has it and is interested, please try and tell me the results. I'm sorta excited over the idea, not sure if it will work or not ^_^

Couldnt you just take Crow Form and make it a hero ability?

What usefulness would this give, though? I mean, you can make any ability require points and have multiple levels. Robo-transform has the advantage of being slightly different, as in the top post... but for simple unit-unit transformations you could do that with a simple trigger.

yes, but I've tried doing using Crow Form as a hero ability, its resets the hero... hehe I haven't gone too indepth though, being busy with school. I believe editing robo-transform would make it easier... I've tried editing metamorph, that didn't work

What about editing Metamorphosis didn't work? I've got an altered one that seems to be functioning just fine.

Ive got an edited Bear Form that works just fine too.

You can use any morph you want. The few limitations there are are the alternate form will have the same hero abilities as the normal form, and the alternate form will use the alternate form animations of a model automatically if it has them. So if you give an MK a morph that morphs him into an MK hell look like a small avatar.

set the "art - required animation names" field for the spell to whatever you want, then you could have the alternate form do whatever you want.

Well... I've tried modding Metamorph with some time put into it, the alternate form is bugged. switching into an air hero froze it, no idea what happened :(

The tinker's transform should be different, if you havent played the Westfall gateway with Goblin Tinker, you realise its quite different, just forget this for now because when patch 1.15 come out, then theres another type of transform.

SUCCESS!!!
I have successfully edited the Goblin Tinker's Robo-Form and made it into a hero version of Crow Form, no glitches. ^_^ I don't really know what I'll do with a hero Medivh though... can't think of any spells to give him other than Crow Form (as ultimate, but usable at lvl 1)

Any suggestions?

Maybe "Dark Portal"? It seems appropriate, given his history.

It was already possible to do that with actual Crow Form like I said. I did it a while ago.

Anyways you could make Medivh maybe have like Fire Shield or something like the Mages from wc2 had.

Also, BOOOOOO Blizzard cuz theres a bug with morphs now if you try to add a morph ability to a unit with triggers.

Theres an idea... I'm guessing I'll make it a castable immolation... more like lightning shield. How would I edit the lightning shield animation and replace it with flames?

Go to the buff editor and find the Lightning Shield buff under the Orcs > Buffs

The rest is fairly intuitive. Mess around a bit.