Tutorial WC3 Custom Ability

[ken5z]

How do you add a cooldown to the trigger spells?

[apipek]

this is too much hard, you can only make ability like THUNDER BOLT and only change effects

[tHeeStkIller]

you leak points btw

[tehjefey]

I've got one. I just made an Ability for a Custom Map (Based off of Booty Bay) and tried my best to model it after Cone of Cold. The only thing wrong with it is whenever I use it. The damage is being dealt. It instead is using the default Shockwave damage while everything else still working (Animation and damage targets.) Any assistance with this?

[rnedisc]

i dont have the abbilety tab in my object editor, how come?

[StylersQuiks]

I've been trying to make an ability where shockwave is cast and I want the caster to appear at the target point.

I put event "Unit - A unit finishes casting an ability"

Conditions "(Ability being cast) Equal to Custom Ability"

Actions "Unit - Move (casting Unit) instantly to (Target point of ability being cast)"

The custom ability so far is just shockwave. When I do it in game though, after casting shockwave, the caster moves to the center of the map and I don't understand why. Can anyone help?

[zoro0123]

@StylersQuiks You can both try to set the point to some variable. Or try some instantly move to a preseted amount of 'units'. Like the casting unit will move 10feets forward his facing angle... I know there is something like that.

But try googling it or find some group of people who still works with Warcraft 3 Editor . I Dont use it anymore :(

[allrock018]

hello, did anyone know how to make a mounted hero to dismounted hero using ability? please tell me.

[bagwa03]

awesome ill ddo this later :)

[jasonkemmett2]

how do i majke a comp unit cast forces of nature trees are around

[zoro0123]

@jasonkemmett2 Try to find some trigger like this:

Action - Unit order cast ability.. something like that :p

[jasonkemmett2]

@jasonkemmett2 hey i looked for that thats not a real function i understand that thats proble the jass log maybe but im using the gui so i need the trigger il ike gui

[zoro0123]

@jasonkemmett2 that's not jass.

There is some Trigger ACTION like that, just search for Unit and Order.

[noobpwner1014]

how can i make Mirror image ability make many clones??

[zoro0123]

@noobpwner1014 Just change the Mirror Image ability in Object Editor to do more than 2 or 3 images :)

[LinkinYM]

@zoro0123 @noobpwner I think what he meant was how to make more than 9 mirrorimages. because for some reason if you try to make 10, your hero dissappears.

[zoro0123]

@LinkinYM dunno

[supercool918]

DUDE UR TOO FAST AFTER U REACH AT THE TRIGGERS AND STUFF!!!

[cartesiaLive]

Yeah what is with WC3 editor users having such gay music

[toigun]

Check Memory leaks aswell, since this got none :P

[333hab]

everytime i try making a spell with channel as the base, i give it to my hero then go into game to test it but the hero never even has the spell or i learn the spell and then it just disappears...any help?

[MrEmoLoveX]

hey the skill is like blink strike. Not bad acutally. Can u post more videos for custom Ability. Nice video anyway.

[zoro0123]

@MrEmoLoveX Sorry But I left editing years ago =/

[sabergt562]

Like forreals why do they put tutorial even though they don't even explain anything. Its like going to school and they don't even stop to help the student -.-

[TheWc3Helper]

Use camtasia instead. Much better graphics =) Here you have the Full download link = ultimatefreepcdl(dot)tk/ and go to forums and there you'll find it :D

[zoro0123]

@TheWc3Helper Hmm How did you know I was needing a program to record?

OK,going after Camtasia,but its for other business :P

[TheWc3Helper]

@zoro0123 Haha i idi just knew that xD because if you watch my LATEST video qualty it's 1080p HD. xD All that is because of Camtasia

[supertyrant0007]

I do the skill same with you but It say tip tool missing?How to change it?

[zoro0123]

@supertyrant0007 Its the Abilitie description

[zedox10]

Song name in the beginning? *w* Great tut btw, but my ability fucked up :/ my unit took his hands up in the air, and did nothing, and it stayed there Xd

[zoro0123]

@zedox10 Sorry, I dont know. This was so long ago.

Review all your triggers and settings on object editor(abilitie) . You can get it

[pepps21]

How do you change other abilities base ID? When I use two different berserk abilities they both lanches.Help me pleazzz!!!

[dragoonkng]

Whatst he name of the 2 furst songs?

[xoOThomasOox]

Very useful for newbies learning how to manipulate the Channel ability with triggers. 5/5.

[000UA000]

u don't need triggers to do this -_- u can just make a new spell be remaking other spells - this way easier

[uoi100]

@000UA000 its the first step to learning how to make a custom ability >.> lol. Well atleast its helping me.

[000UA000]

@uoi100 with triggers u can make new spells and they will be nicer, but make spell with trigger is hard thing (

[uoi100]

@000UA000 thats why I'm gonna learn how to make spells using triggers, cause it gives me more accessibility to make what I want the spell to look like. of course if its a simple spell like heal then i'd just copy and paste lol.

[000UA000]

@uoi100 if you want - do this; now i make just simple melee maps.

[zoro0123]

@000UA000 C'mon thats not too hard

[000UA000]

@zoro0123 for my it's hard (((

[zoro0123]

@000UA000 I see..

[000UA000]

@zoro0123 oh sorry, for me. if you can explain to me how use triggers, try it pls

[zoro0123]

@000UA000 : /

[000UA000]

@zoro0123 :P

[ReganChambers]

so wtf did ur ability do? just dmg?? im trying to make my own custom one and i need help with ti

[PowerofJohras]

There's also a third alternative: "Star Explosion" Which means that you use a spell such as Thunder Strike and imobilize it, and you will add through triggers:

Events- A unit starts the effect of an ability (Find below the Unit category)

Conditions- (Ability being used) Equal to (Star Explosion)

Actions- Create Special effect at position of (triggering unit) with offset 200,-100 (For an example. There are also the most common: 100,100 100,-100 200,200 -200,-200 200,-200 -200,100 etc...

[PowerofJohras]

It's harder to create the spell by triggers though but it gives you the ability to add more than one models at once and at different position than the Caster or Target, variables are required for this of course and they're called: Caster, Target for easy names.

And if you'd like to create a "Multishot" as a starfall, then you use the spell barrage, and change the targets allowed to: Ground,Organic,Enemy,Air so that it will damage all types. From that part you will have to customise the stats.

[PowerofJohras]

NOTICE: To make this spell look like starfall you need to customise the models the way you want them to be, there's also "Multishot" as very many different types of art, such as "Firebolt" "Cold Arrows" "Hammers" (Last one is for Thrall of Gryphon Riders) And there are also some starfall spells such as Arcane missiles, all that's required is the "Healing Spray" spell and the art for Starfall.

[Kav2990]

How do i make a unit cast like star fall? if its an custom star fall

[Qtip650]

I copied this exactly and got over 10000 errors...

[AyeKaiAye]

In my object editor i only have Items and Unit, how do i get Abilities, doodads etc.

[GanDuumar]

It's up on the bar, theres Units/Items/Destructibles/Dood­ads/Abilities/Buffs/Effects/Up­grades. U can see them even on the vid.

[AyeKaiAye]

:P Its because i didnt have extention downlaoded.

[Dude7469]

Have you frozen throne? You need to buy it if you wanna those.

[danogalex1]

Can you make a video and make a AOE Spell Like Shockwave spell that cast Shockwave to all sides or somthing like that?

[tonyvien1]

ughmm no offence but this tutorial is sorta useless for someone who doesn't know anything and isnt that whats a tutorial supposed to be ? teaching something to someone that doesn't know anything ? its way too fast and its as if you expect us to know this already (which if we did then we wouldnt be watching this)

[eatmeimsteak]

people need to stop using damn music in tutorials and use a mic to explain it more -.-

[uoi100]

@eatmeimsteak I know your comment is old but, some people don't have mics lol.

[devenport08]

thanks it worked im ganna try to make it awsomely cool tho now

[buttayhahahaahahah]

canu explain it all and too fast

[Imbapiranha]

A slooow tutorial made by a newbie for newbies.

You can simply click on "new ability" to select an ability and don't have to use the "search" function. Get some more practice.

[whatams]

Do you know in Dota or in other games where it says a shield has a chance to reduce a certain amount of damage? e.g. 40% chance to reduce damage by 60.

How do i do something like that?

Thanks in advance and for the vid :)

[fgf284]

When i click on the object manager :P The only tabs i have are units and items, none of the other o.0 Any ideas why this might be?

[XxChronxX]

You need to have the expansion to get the other tabs in world editor.

[vXTutorials]

This sucks...

Maybe you should show people how to remove leaks before you learn them this shit? Else they're maps with these spells will lagg like hell

[zoro0123]

This is supposed to be a a tutorial for beginners.

If you want make better create another tutorial,how to remove leakes.

[JerrmyBoi]

maybe you should go back to elementary school and learn proper grammar before you post an angry comment.

[DzMkL123]

why dont you make such a toturial ?

[CrazzyPaliest]

lol funny music XP

[Madara29]

thanks! i needed that!!

[Onlineman10]

thanks dude u helped me alot i would like to make a buisness with me

[Deanosaurus999]

how do i make it so the ability is autoactivated like it happens and u dnt need to click button

[zoro0123]

You mean... Hotkey button??

[zoro0123]

@Deanosaurus999 Now I see.

You mean Passive... Dont remember.

And probably you won't need this anymore. 9 months ago......

LOL man, This is so Nostalgia. : /

[MrScreamoFTW]

yo i need help with the dummy unit i wanna make a ability where i shoot some thing and it hits multiple enemys.

do you know how ?

[moris112]

use the barrage ability for that.

[Igor7852]

Name and artist of all the musics ??? ?Anyone khow ???

[zoro0123]

Agora tu me pego,não lembro!!

Tenta usar Music ID xD

[neverseebefor]

how to make my skil lvl to 10 i cant make my skill add to 10 some one help me?

[Igor7852]

Open the object editor , go to abilities and look for "Stats - Levels " and put the number equal to the number of levels u want ^^

[mastergazel]

look lvl recuired

[zoro0123]

Probably you havent edited the abilities in the object editor,change the lvl required setting

[Cronos09867]

Hey friend that is amazing!

[Gadzixor]

Music name please 7:10

[zoro0123]

Don't Remember,something like Tiesto...

[ubeuberl33t]

rofl im confused O.o

[BaconWrangler]

can anyone help with me with some stuff about custom abilities? i've still got a few questions about some stuff that's happening with my abilities... and help would be apreciated... message me on my profile or comment here, idc. thanks! :]

[Ryndika]

Ffs u cant do this without frozen throne expansion -.-

[tamedsoilder21]

They are real good songs :)

[tamedsoilder21]

gime song plz

[9GTO9]

how did u do that quick thing at 2:10 ?

[zoro0123]

If I remember... Copy and Paste.

[lezcrox]

i wonder if i can make it do this by it self, well good video

but is it possible i can set this as a target so i dont have to do it ?

if u understand

[Yourmomatzoo]

Thx alot for this vid.. Please make some more!

[zoro0123]

I Left Warcraft long time ago

[TheLittleEvil13]

Hey cool video it helped me^^

But theres one problem i have :

When i give my Paladin (or whatever^^) the order to cast the Custom Ability on the enemy he cast and then nothing happens. And when i now cast the ability on another unit the effect of the ability is by the unit i targeted befor (hope you understand^^)

ex: I cast "Custom Ability" on peasant1, nothing happens.

Now I cast "custom Ability" on peasant2 and peasant1 take damage and the special effect.

What i do wrong? pls help me

thx^^

[zoro0123]

It does have something wrong with the trigger sequence.

Maybe the first thing happening is to deal damage,then set the target Unit to the variable.

As the first time you don't have the variable set,it won't do nothing. Check your editor.

[TheLittleEvil13]

Hm. I found the mistake. Its so simple^^

I put the "set variable" thing not at the start of the trigger, i put it to the end. after changing this i can use it witout any problems

THX FOR THIS TUT ^^

[Dustuhala]

uhm, I have another question..it all works good all the times, it's just that from time to time, the ability doesnt take mana from the hero ( also it doesnt have cooldown when that happens, I`ve set the cd to 8 sec )

[xuebingsherpi]

Try using the Event : A unit 'starts the effect of an ability,' rather than use A unit 'begins casting an ability.' This is because the game checks the two events VERY differently. With 'begins casting an ability,' it triggers before mana is used and the cooldown starts. With 'starts the effect of an ability,' the trigger will run after the mana is spent and the cooldown starts. In practice, never use 'begins casting an ability,' along with 'is attacked.' These can be exploited by cheaters.

[Dustuhala]

ty a lot, that was the problem :D

[elsam051]

Thx for this video helped me alot

[playa674]

lol ur tutorial was fckin hard to understand u dont show what button u click so i had to replay again and again

[zoro0123]

srry :/

[ikaldo]

What´s the name of the second song? Can u tell me please?

[zoro0123]

Daddy Dj is the name of the song.

[Sjokkis13]

can you do this in Roc version ??? cuz when i followed ur vid i didnt have the thingys next to where it was picture of a helmet and a chest.... it was only those 2 at me.. not the abillitys

[zoro0123]

Sorry but I can't I Dropped world editor long ago,and Hardly I will come back to work with it :(

[zfafo]

how do i create a charging ability (ie: pick a point and my hero charges/moves to that point)? then make any unit hit by it take damage?

[zoro0123]

What you mean by ''make any unit hit by it take damage?''

If you want it to move to a point you gotta set this point into a Point variable or Region vaariable and then order move.

To make the unit damage everything in his way you can activate an ability [dont know name] that is already ready into the editor and it does damage only by contact.

[Droyteka]

What are the names of the songs in this video?Please tell me!!!

[DisneyClassicmusic]

Im also new so its kinda hard too understand some of it went kinda fast.

[zoro0123]

Just pause it!

[DisneyClassicmusic]

Lol you replied now XD that comment was one month ago:P

[zoro0123]

Oh Yeah,I'm just too lazy to log in youtube and watch comments!

Also warcraft is past for me now :( but maybe I come back :) ... oh noLol

[SheepHunterPwn]

Dude That is Realy EASY!

[cakemixcore]

You didn't destroy the special effect or the point. Will leak D:

[randomnamehere134]

hey can you make abilities like bloodlust into hero abilities? if so plz explain

[xKibaFTWx]

lool...

[randomnamehere134]

lol im new to this game so stfu

[xKibaFTWx]

ok sry^^ look at 3:31 at "Stats - Hero Abillity"

that should help u

[aligatorzs]

you can make any ability into hereo ability...when your making ability just klick in the bar at Stats Hero ability and that will make that spell into hero spell

[Alezio100000]

guys sry for spaming but where can i increase the life of one hero and a building??? i need it immediately.... plz....

[cooliscool2]

building:

object editor --> [your unit] --> data - max. hp or something like that

hero:

max. hp = strength*25 + basic hp

[Alezio100000]

o and something more where can i change the damage of a hero in object editor??? thankz

[OlloX3]

LOL you asked me, I ANSWERED..

[Alezio100000]

thank you very much ;)

[Alezio100000]

how can i make my hero grow up more than 10 levels???

[TheElementKid]

this is what u have to do:

open world editor,

go to terrain editor (the map),

u have a bar, with file edit layer, blablabla. Click on advanced -> Gameplay Constants -> Click on "Use custom gameplay constants -> scroll down untill u find hero stuffs, then there is Hero Maximum level and u can set that to what u want. I hope that this helps.

[zoro0123]

Exactly ;)

[PivotPlay666]

thx

it works

and i made a skill too

[lazarusstay]

There is one thing that i dont understand, plz help me...: i did everything as u did it, my unit, wich i gave the spell to, was a hero wich looked like an animal...so i tried the spell and it didnt work...then i saw that u canged the unit to ".mdl" so i also did that, now it works....but my hero is a shadow-.-, but urs isnt..what did u do different?

[Tyrulaan]

This spell is very inefficient. Instead of having 4 If/Then/Else Statements he could have removed them all and replaced the Damage Target line with:

Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage Target, dealing ((100.00 x (Real((Level of Acid Bomb for (Casting unit))))) + 100.00) damage of attack type Spells and damage type Magic

Clean up the code real nice and make the entire game run just a little bit smoother.

[zoro0123]

You right,never thought that.

But my way is better to understand

[Tyrulaan]

I'm not so sure it is easier to understand. Fairly simple concept I had laid out plainly. If you perhaps used a microphone and talked the viewers through it there would be no problems and you would also be 'teaching' a more effective and efficient way to code.

[zoro0123]

My native language isn't English so I could have made some mistakes

[Forkoto]

the best tutoriaalll 10x

[HiagoX]

What's the name of the first music? ;P

[DeathFrikinChikin]

ty for tutorial

[DepthOfMyBrain]

Cool tutorial !

[aeon1993]

is this just for Frozen throne or can it work with reign of chaos as well?

[Darkfire889]

you need the tft editer

[Darkfire889]

is that just world editor?

[zoro0123]

Yup...

[TheDownpointer]

Ahhh GUI ? *ieks* Jass FTW =D

[zussedog]

Lol GUI is more trust worthey than JASS but yes yes would not leak if you know how to use JASS i know some JASS but i trust GUI more becuse JASS can leak alot if you dont know what your doing, i use JASS for abilites any ways lol.

[TheDownpointer]

Yes, but its easier with Jass to trigger custom Spells, cause of local variables. But yes you´r right, Jass can be very very dangerous ;)

[zoro0123]

If I have made a tutorial in JASS almost no one would understand. Besides I don't know Jass very well ;D

[TheDownpointer]

Hehe ^^

The most I like by using JASS that the Spell is MUI cause of local variables. But GL with GUI ;)

[SheWasAlmost18]

you can use local variables in gui too

custom script local variable ;)

[squidavenger]

By any chance do you know how to make an ability somewhat like defend. So that you could change a units attack from ranged to melee attack?

[zoro0123]

???

[squidavenger]

To change the attack type of a unit from ranged to melee with a ability. Do you know how?^

[zoro0123]

No,I think there is no way...

But there are abilities that morphs the unit in other. Search about those abilities.

[squidavenger]

Yes i know like the demon hunter morph, i had that in mind. Except making it a on and off abillity, not only a duriation. But unfortunately i could not change it at all basically. Oh well..

[Coolty44]

There is a way that involves trigegrs, you can either have an add range trigger or replace unit trigger, either way it gets hard after awhile

[miffotim]

worked relly well

[Areeoo]

Yey! now it works! :D thank you so much, really good tutorial.

PS: all who complain that he is fast, just pause the video and it will geta lot easier.

[Areeoo]

idk why but it only works 50/50 for me, one time he does teleport to the enemy, sometimes he dosnt, why?

[zoro0123]

I just can say that something must be wrong.

Maybe the trigger or the Abilitie.

Check Cooldowns and mana cost.Also check trigger conditions ;)

[runesRUS]

dude wat the hell comfuseing

[zoro0123]

Pause Button does exist

[spearkill]

my editor doesn't have that thing the edit abilities

[zoro0123]

It must be Frozen Throne editor

[spearkill]

so can i download that somewhere?

[XenQ7]

Creating custom abilities makes so much more sense. I had never thought about using triggers. Well made tutorial. Easy to follow along. Thanks much