Changing a unit's model height through triggers.

Okay.. now say you have a model, that is short and stubby like a human child. Now you want to make that model taller, but you do not want to change the other dimensions of the model.

That's easy. Just use the Animation - Change Unit's Size, and set the Y offset to like 200%, while leaving everything else 100%.

Now, is this possible to do on map initialization, setting a unit-type's Y offset to 200%, so that every unit of that type created after initialization will have 200% its normal height.

If not, that means I'd have to do a trigger to pick every unit of a certain unit-type and do the change unit's size trigger, and with 500 units of that type, it could cause some real hell trying to resize all of them.

Maybe there is a better alternative.. anyone know?

Well, I found a bug in one of the triggers.

Animation - Change Unit's Size

It has ( X% , X% , X% ). Now its supposed to correspond with Length, Width, Height.

I just tested it, and the first X is the only one with any effect, and it has the same effect as the scale value in the object editor. The first X does nothing more than change the overall size of the model to that %. So if you set it to:

( 500% , 5% , 50% )

The entire model would be scaled to 500% of its original size, not just the Length.

Now, does this mean there is no way of scaling the individual dimensions of a model through the World Editor?

How can you change JUST the height of a unit, without effecting its width or length.

*Sigh*, yes just the Z.

Then do it... What's the issue? o_O

How? I don't mean change the height offset, I mean change the actual height of the model without changing the other aspects.

Linkmaster, weren't you supposed to be a master of triggering?

Hexen, I have the same problem, don't think it's possible to resize only 1 dimension.

Salutions®

WCIII dosnt support scaling only in one dimension on units (although it can be done on doodads) the trigger to do it was never finished i guess. Although this is a good thing, since scaling it up would stretch everything and look fucked up.

You right, people dont help too much lately...

Salutions®

I'l try to do this.
Try to set all to 100% exept the height 100% , 100% , 50%?

Read that... The trigger doesn't work properly, its bugged. So don't even bother.