Stacking Custom Abilities

[AndrewD2]

Working on some custom abilities that can be taken more than once and I've got a few questions about them.

1) Is there a way to make only the highest xIndex one show up in specials? One of these abilities uses xIndex to change the livename, but under the Specials tab I only want the highest one to show up.

2) Some of these have a stipulation "You can take this ability more than once, it's effects do not stack, instead it adds one to your uses per day." I know I could do a tagcount to trkMax, but it doesn't appear that the firstcopy shutdown script works with custom abilities, unless I did something wrong, but I made sure it was used after post levels so the tag should be there.

Thanks for any help,
Andrew

[Mathias]

1) Are you sure you want to use xIndex, not xCount?

2) Can you think of any existing abilities that already work like this? The Deadly Range Ninja Trick, for example?

[AndrewD2]

well when I used xCount I got error that said field xCount doesn't exist.

[Mathias]

Oh, sorry, you're working with custom abilities, not class specials.

The second answer also applies to the first question - look at what Deadly Range is doing with Helper.SpecUp.

[AndrewD2]

Yep, I got it figured out. Thanks!

[Frodie]

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but I having the same issue. Is there a custom ability that I can look at? I have a custom ability "Armor Training" that the script works fine, and it'll work. But it would be cool if they could just show as one.

This what I have so far Post Levels 10000

      ~ see if a quickfind has been created by another copy of this ability
      perform quickfind.setfocus

      ~ if we didn't find a redirection, we're the first copy of this ability to run this script, so we'll make ourselves the FirstCopy.
      if (state.isfocus = 0) then
        perform quickadd
        perform assign[Helper.FirstCopy]
        ~ add +1 to our value
        field[abValue].value += 1

      ~ otherwise, redirect hero.child[] to the FirstCopy, and make us an upgrade
      else
        perform focus.redirect
        perform assign[Helper.SpecUp]
        ~ add +1 to the focus's value
        focus.field[abValue].value += 1
        endif

[AndrewD2]

I dno't think you can hide it on the class page, but you can on the Specials tab

[Frodie]

Ah, ok Thank you!