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You've both been so helpful thanks.

The: Armies > abilities was indeed the missing link; I can now get them on the command bar, oddly it seems anything in UI slot 70 and 80 won't display until one picks a commander; But 90 all the way up to 160 show regardless. (There is 10 in total) Rather odd.

I was afraid that scar would be the answer for using the UI slots above the standard commander row. As I don't know the firs think about Lua this may be a dead end for me as I've not got the time to learn it. I like to mess about with modding but only within the limits of what free time allows. Win conditions can do custom scar functions though can they not? Perhaps I'll be able to find someone to help me setup an accompanying WC pack for my mod then.

Francis; The 'usage', 'display', and 'display and usage' are fields I'd not noticed before. What is the difference may I ask? It sounded obvious at first but when I went down the logic of thought I realized it didn't quite make sense which probably means my impression of it was not right to begin with. xD

Bump. Still need help with this. :-(

Thanks for the help. Is there an easy way to preview each one per chance?

Image isn't big enough to really see so open it in a new tab link here:

https://i.imgur.com/o18gdf8.jpg

Thanks for getting back to me once again P/S.

Your suggestion is very similar to what I have done as it happens. This is the construction of my..lets just call it a "runtime" I'll only mark relevant settings. For the sake of reference we'll name this ability"ABKS1"

ability_bag
-activation = always_on
-action_list
--start_target_actions / interval_action (15 sec) / int_sub_actions / actions / delay (15 sec)
/ delayed_action / reinforcement_action = sbps/Kv1Tank


This will spawn a KV1 Tank 15 seconds into the game, then spawn another 15 seconds later, then another and so on.

I didn't want one at match start as these are intended to not trigger in the mod I'm working on for a good 10 mins and longer depending on the unit types.

In your suggestion though you mentioned setting progress_bar to "true" wouldn't that be redundant with an ability that is set to always_on as these ability types can't display UI icons?

speaking of UI, that's now where my remaining problem lies with this.

I had the same idea about using a dummy group. I did indeed create one to provide UI indications. We'll call this ability ABKS2.

The method I tried is to set ABKS2 as activation=timed and set the recharge to 15 seconds with initial_recharge set to true. This means at the game start the timer will start counting down 15 seconds. The next part was to make sure that timer restarted every 15 seconds, and this is where I ran into problems. We already know that with a timed ability we can't make it auto trigger. The player needs to click the UI button.

Genius then struck, or so I thought. I went back to ABKS1, our first ability.

I added the following to the following part;

-action_list
--start_target_actions / interval_action (15 sec) / int_sub_actions / actions / delay (15 sec) / reset_ability_recharge_action = ABKS2.

I thought that would be all sorted. Sadly, "reset" in this context seems to mean stop, not restart. So as soon as my ability ABKS1 triggers and the unit spawns the cooldown on ABKS2 stops. Perfectly timed I might add but it doesn't restart the cooldown. back to the drawing board on that part it seems.