Two questions.

I have two, questions. One is a lil unimportant, and the other a little more crucial. I think I'll get the little one out of the way first.

I'm making a map where there are computer controled heroes lying around that you temporarily take control of through a computer player you have shared units with. My problem is the lil box thing that displays the player you're controlling's resource. Is there any way to remove this? I've looked all over game constants and whatnot, and can't find a thing. It's not a big thing, I just find it really annoying...

Second, I'm looking for a way to give a unit an ability which will randomly morph the unit into 1 of several other units, but I have no idea how to work this out. I'm not too skilled at triggers right now, but I can follow directions fairly well.

Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

Dosen't Hex do that morph thing?

To answer #2, I'm guessing you're referring to a morph ability, like storm crow or bear form. The beast way to do that would be to make several abilities that morph the unit into one type. Like one for a bear, one for a crow, one for a demon, etc. Then when you want to morph, choose one of these abilities at random, add it to the unit and order the unit to cast it.

The difficulty of that would be making all the spells for that ability.

@ PenguinEmperor: I guess I should have been a bit more clear. Sorry about that.

@ CastleMaster: I took your advise and started making some morphing abilities, but I ran into a few problems. I think I should clarify what it is I'm aiming for first though. I'm trying to make a hero who, in his original form, is weaker than the normal hero, but still has skills of his own to defend himself. The morphing abilities, I intended to have as his ultimate, as it would be granting him greater power and different skills. Seeing as how it would be a hero ability, I thought metamorphosis would be ideal. Turns out it isn't. The alternate unit retains the original unit's spells, no matter what you set em to. And so I sought out different morphing skills. Bear form and raven form were the only ones I could think of, and unfortunately they have the same problem.

Thus, I humbly request an answer to this question: Is there another morph ability, one that does not retain skills, or am I doomed to build this ability completely from triggers?

Ithink you can make the ability not permanent by setting UnitMakeAbilityPermanent() to false

Then it should be lost when morphing

PS: Its gui counterpart doesn't seem to exist

I don't think you can change the learnable hero skills with morph abilities. You could try engineering upgrade but that doesn't work right on already learned skills (as far as I know it retains the old skill's way of working and only updates the stat/data fields), unless all your skills were passive dummy abilities and you added actual abilities with triggers, then you could add and remove them freely as well as swap hero skills with engineering upgrade. Would take a bit of triggering though.

An alternative would be to simply swap the hero with the alternate version of itself which you would otherwise keep hidden in a corner of the map and update the hp/mana/exp on the new form to match those of the original which you again hide for the time being.

Well, I tried what you said Anitarf, and the morphing works well enough, but the icons for the hidden heroes still appear in the upper left corner.

Anyway here is what I came up with. It seems to work well enough.

How does it look?