Turning regular passive abilities into toggle abilities?

01-08-2007, 07:01 PM	#1
Baron Crinkle	I have a number of passive abilities I would like to turn into auto-cast/toggle abilities and make them cost mana. Is there a way to do this gracefully through the editor, or do I need to involve triggers?

01-08-2007, 07:05 PM	#2
Vexorian	You are forced to use triggers here

01-08-2007, 11:09 PM

Pyrogasm

Do you know how to use Disabled Spell books? If you don't, learn how 'cause you're gonna need them. Here's an example trigger for you for turning Bash into a toggleable ability.

Map Initilization Disable:

Events

Map Initilization

Conditions

Actions

Player Group - Pick every player in (All Players) and do (Player - Disable (Dummy Bash Spellbook) for (Picked Player))

Cast Add/Remove:

Events

Unit - A unit starts the effect of an ability

Conditions

Ability being cast equal to Dummy Bash Toggle

Actions

If (All conditions are true) then do (Actions), else do (Actions)

If - Conditions

Level of (Bash) for (Triggering unit) > 0

Then - Actions

Unit - Remove (Dummy Bash Spellbook) from (Triggering Unit)

Else - Actions

Unit - Add (Dummy Bash Spellbook) to (Triggering unit)

Unit - Set level of (Bash) for (Triggering Unit) to (Level of (Dummy Bash Toggle) for (Triggering Unit))

In the above trigger, "Bash" is the actual Bash ability, "Dummy Bash Toggle" is a dummy ability that does nothing, and "Dummy Bash Spellbook" is a diabled spellbook which contains the "Bash" ability.

Wash, rinse, repeat.