Siphon Mana graphic

I was trying to make a ray of frost spell that zaps someone and they take damage and get chilled. I was thinking I'd base it off of frost nova so it has the chill built in and set the splash damage and splash radius really small. When i went to insert the siphon mana graphics for like missile or effect or whatever I couldn't find a siphon mana file to use. Does anyone know where this might be.

On a different note i made a trigger spell based off of channel and it doesn't show up on my hero. Any ideas why aside from me making some error i haven't noticed?

*EDIT* ok I stripped a hero of all his other abilities but channel spell and it still didn't show up. What could this be?

*EDIT 2* ok i changed some fields around in the channel ability and it works now. I think the thing that made the difference was the "Alert UI" or whatever. the first question still needs answering tho.

I cant answer ur first question but the channel ability is the ability Arthas and Illidan use in the last campaign map to channel the obeleliskt. It is meant to fill out with triggers because it really does nothing. I can be wrong here, maybe it does something but I dont think so. I guess there is no piction because it looks better without.

Siphon mana doesn't use a .mdx file, it is called using Splats\LightningData.slk, you can't use it as a projectile unless you fake it with triggers.

edit: fixed the path to the slk

cool, good to know. Um, so how *would* i fake that using triggers, since i don't know much about messing with the slk and all that.

Hmm sounds like a good distraction, I'll see what I can do :).

ok here it is, just make sure every unit on your map has at least 1 mana point so you can target them :).

Cool, and good work! It looks nice, don't you think? Thanks for helping out.

N/P it could use a little bit more work, I think, but its just a quickie to help out :).

well as long as we're using triggers to do it with hidden units and everything you could do it like this:

The Ray of Frost ability is Frost nova, when he casts it (give a non zero cast time) create 2 invisible units, one with mana, and put them on the 2 heroes. Then have one cast siphon mana on the other and you get the ray effect. That way you can target anyone.

the siphon mana would prolly be like .75 seconds (on your map it was 1 second). After all it would kinda suck if they moved and the ray was staying somewhere else, best to make it fast.

I was wondering tho, if it's possible to do this without triggers, just using the SPLAT thing you talked about in an earlier response.

Anyways, thanks a lot for helping.

Yeah I thought about doing it that way, but I had a movie to go see so I had to whip something up quick :ggani: .