Rotating Special Effects

Is it possible to rotate special effects? I want to use Shimmering Portal as a special effect, but it's always at a default angle. Is there a way to change its angle?

Also: If you attach a special effect to a unit and remove the unit from the game, but not destroy the special effect, does it still leak the special effect?

Rotate it in which plane? You'll probably have to edit the model.

It will still leak.

A special effect system by Vexorian (xefx, I think) allows for the rotation and inclination of special effects. It does this by attaching a special effect to a unit with a discreet model, and adjusting the unit, thereby adjusting, too, the special effect attached to it - this is hwo I think it works.

It also affords special effect location (along x-, y-, and z-axes) adjustment.

You don't need a system for that. Simply make a unit with said model, create it where needed, and rotate at will. Pretend you're making a dummy caster, except instead of no model, it has the model of the SFX you want.

why not attaching an effect to a dummy ..and then just rotate the dummy ?!

Yeah, I was going to just attach a special effect to a dummy unit, but I did the smarter thing and made the dummy unit's model the model I was going to use as a special effect. No point in making a unit AND a sfx. Problem solved guys.

well thats ok when you have only few effects you want to be rotated ...if you got lots of them the "dummy unit + effect" method needs much less work

Yeah, that's obvious, but this is a single effect. Check my spell14 submission if you want to see what I did.