'nother question.

Heya. Sorry, but I think I'm gonna be posting a lotta newbish questions here =P

I've seen on certain custom games (although I can't think of any right now), certain units or buildings...I think more buildings... that have special effects. For example, on a certain TD, I remember seeing a cannon tower, with an a ice thingy floating around it. I'm wondering how you do this? Is this set up via trigger? Or, can you somehow add it to the model?

Thanks,
Doki

Yes, you can attach any .mdx (a.k.a. effect) to fields of a unit's/building's body. The one you'd want for that would be "overhead"

i.e attach like whatever\blahblah.mdx to "origin" of Unit (X)

In the new editors you can get off this site, a list comes with it with all attachment points and also all effects. I'd get that if I were you.

Ok, I kinda got it to work via triggers...but, it only worked w/ the TalkToMe effect. I grabbed a buncha other from the Ability/Spells group at random, and none of those worked.

Are there rules at what works and what doesn't? Is there a general guideline to follow?

Plus, I'm not sure if I'm using the most proper trigger. I can't think of any other way than a trigger that looks something like this:


Event:
Unit - A unit enters (Entire map)
Conditions:
(Unit-type of (Triggering Unit)) Equal to Guard Tower
Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the overhead of (Triggering unit) using Abilities\Spells\Other\TalkToMe\TalkToMe

Thanks again,
Doki

Nevermind. Got it to work. I was missing the .mdx extension. I guess its necessary, unlike the Model Used field inside the Unit Editor. Thanks Draco =)

Doki

I was just going to mention that. :)

Oh, and forget about the Private Message that I jsut sent you.