Dark Portal Spell!

Hey, on my dark portal spell it cats a huge skeleton giant i made and i made instead of th eold art a portal instead. So the blue/purple portal works and i have my unit set to appear at a right time so it looks like he came out of portal. But it doesnt look like hes comign out of portal. He just comes out of the ground. So i was tryign to add like clouds or anything that so no one would see him come out of ground so it looks more liek he came out from the portal. Can someone help me? oh and i cant use triggers

use a different model, edit a model to remove the birth animation or use triggers, i dont think theres any other way with summoning spells.

so theres no way i can add clouds or something around the portal like an effect or something

If you use triggers you can just create a unit with 1.) locust ability 2.) cloud ability 3.) hide it with 100% transparency [animation - vertex coloring] 4.) give it an X second expiration timer 5.) order the unit to cast cloud on the point you want.

Or you can make a custom unit with the cloud model file (under buffs) and create it with triggers. (That isn't very difficult.)

uh im so confused lol

its simple:
If you want the cloud, then you NEED triggers, if you dont want to use triggers, then you cant have a cloud to hide it.