Gem WTF?

What is this button for? "Gem activated." "Gem deactivated."

Is this like that useless thing in Diablo 2 Bnet lobby?

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to add that I can't search for "Gem" cause it's a wicked 3 letter word or some crap.

it turns on/off the death animations for when you delete a unit in the editor.

death animations? what do you mean?
do you mean that if you delete a unit with the gem activated it will show the unit's death ani?

EXACTLY.

In other words, its a useless and pointless (but amusing) thing that Blizz added to the editor.

When you delete something with the gem on, it will play its death animation THEN it will be deleted. Instead of deleting instantly.

lol, thats very pointless yet funny

well, a stupid thing is that it should of been named different then "gem". that name doesnt describe its function.

It's from Diablo II on Battle.net (maybe from an earlier game too...). You click the gem and it says Gem activated etc. Sometimes it would say Super Gem Activated.

I never figured out what the D2 one did.. never found out what the WC3 editor one did till now. I just turned it on/off never deleted a unit w/ it on.

Thanks :p

whats really fun is make a bunch of units, and delete them all at once with the Gem on, they also respond to you sometimes.

where do i find this magic gem? *sry i can't see the new editor yet*

The gem is the red/green thing in the lower right corner of the terrain editor portion of WE. And its not a 1.13 thing, its been there since the begining...

It allows you to capture units in mid death animation, some r really funny
such as this mid death animation peasants face.

OMG! Brilliant death animation caption! Do you mind if I use that in a sig for myself? :P

Edit: Also... It plays the units Death-Sound...