[Help] Converting creeps to heros- can it be done?

Heres the deal. I'm making a map where all your units are creeps, including heros. I've succesfully taken high level creeps, modified their abilites, attack and armor, and have them become purchasable from the Altar. I realize that they cant level- I actually don't want them to. I have given them inventory however.

The problem: I can't seem to make them be purchasable like regular heros: only one of each, and a new one each tier. They are bought from the altar by changing "units sold" under each race's altar.

I have already changed the gameplay constant for hero techtree requirements by removing the existing heros and putting in mine- is this not working because they are essentially still creeps? Is my only option creating custom heros that are the same as the creeps?

I think hero requirements are actually built into the hero. Heroes have a whole lot more techtree requirement options for them as well.

You can easily do what you want to do though, just any time one makes a "hero", and the number of "heroes" they have is equal to the limit of "heroes" then set the max # of unit types for all heroes to -1. If they havent reached the max, set max # of unit types for all heroes to 1.

Good luck on reviving though...

I think im just going to take the time and create custom heros... I think its best to get all the problems out of the way than having to make dozens of workarounds.

Thanks for the help though!

Well thats a dozen workarounds in itself, you cannot just take a custom unit and change the Stats - Is A Hero flag to true, you have to recreate every single unit as a new unit whose base is "some hero".

And remember the drawback that AI autoacquires targets and prioritizes heroes *dead last* every single time no matter what.

While we're here, how can I have it so that the "create random creep" creates creeps that are not just from the map I'm on? I'm using glacial thaw as a base map, and all the creeps that come are only from Glacial Thaw (Icecrown Glacier set). If I want, say, creeps from Ashenvale, how would I got about doing this? Replace Units under Advanced doesn't seem to work. Here's the trigger I'm using:


Tell me if you need the rest of the trigger, but that's the only part pertaining to creeps.

If it really spawns only creeps from Icecrown Glacier then I would suggest that you find the creeps that you want in the Object Editor, go to "Editor - Tilesets" and include Icecrown Glacier in there.. I think it should work