Placing Temporary Runes in a Circle?

Hello everyone,
I am working on a hero which, for his ultimate, has a reincarnation like ability with quite a few more graphical and sound enhancements inspired by Alakafizz's map (the unit dies, and then the flamestrike green circle appears as the player's screen pulses, and then after five or six pulses, you can hear a cruel laugh -Sargeraslaugh- and then after a small explosion, the hero reappears with full HP and 0 life.

I have all of this done, but for additional special effects, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I could have runes appear in a circle around the unit after each pulse? I know my explanation might not be clear.. but I can elaborate if necessary. The runes will also fade away once the animations finish, but I am pretty sure I can figure that out, it is just the circular positioning I need help with.

Any takers?

- Lazurus

Try the AoE on death spell, edit it to last 5 seconds, and that's about it. I think that should work.

...?
What?
That had nothing to do with what he wanted help with. ;)

Anyways, do what Eso said. =p


-Edit, by the way; could you send me a copy of the map when you're finished? I'd like to see this spell you're creating.

Here look at my uber map. Haha, it uses circles.

Thanks alot everyone. Now I've gotten it to work. :)
Hey, even my hero linkmaster posted. :o

The map is still in its very early stages, Zethiros, but I'll gladly send you a copy. It is supposed to be a new type of genre, though I must admit that it was inspired by, and meant to be a hybrid of Tides of Blood-ish strategic gameplay and footmen wars. I'll send you a private message containing it. This is just the ultimate for my tanking medieval spawn hero (Kain of BGE's public skin), nothing special.

Thanks again everyone!

EDIT: Hrm.. I guess you can't send files via private messages, or if you can I am just not smart enough to figure it out. I'll copy it into the middle of some generic blizzard map for you. I'll even put a cool little Death Droid in it for you to kill the hero with, how does that sound?

- Lazurus

Sure, no problem.
PM is good. ;)

While you're at it; write me down for a beta tester if you ever need one. I thought ToB was a pretty good AoS, although it needed some work, and I wouldn't mind testing something with somewhat similar gameplay. :>

Ah, it won't be needing any for a while, but I will definately keep you in mind once it gets even near being finished. :)

- Lazurus

Sent you a PM; if you didn't get a pop-up message (which I highly recommend you turn on if you didn't) saying you did, go to Options in your User CP and enable the "Show New Private Message Notification Pop-up" option.

It's very useful.

WOW!
That's really cool.
That looks awesome. O_o

Thanks alot. I had to substitue the effects of a cooldown with the timer in the upper right hand corner of the screen, though all in all I think it turned out okay.

I might remove the pulsing effects though, they didn't exactly turn out like I wanted them to...

- Lazurus

Nah, leave 'em. It looks really good as it is. I especially like the timer because it displays the exact time 'till it's ready. =)

Alright, thanks, you've been a big help. I need one last opinion though. For the ending animations of the spell when the red runes disappear, do you think that the Feral Spirit's summon / death animation graphics would look better (the red lightning-ish stuff) or do you think the Phoenix Missle explosion looks okay as it is?

- Lazurus

Phoenix Fire Cast spell animation, it's more "fiery" than the Feral Spirit one.

Yeah, you guys were right, the phoenix fire caster one looked alot better than what I had going. I think this spell is finally finished. :)

- Lazurus

PM me if you ever need me to check out spells or help, I'll try to help you. ;)
Also, 1 little question...

Does my signature picture show to you? 2 friends from MSN Instant Messanger said it appeared like a red X, but I want to know if anyone else besides me can see it? Thanks.