Is it possible to somehow display sfx to only 1 player?

03-22-2005, 12:59 PM	#1
Lil Blue Smurf	Is there any way at all that you can trigger a sfx to show for just one player? I really doubt it, but it would make some things in my map look much cooler.

03-22-2005, 02:51 PM	#2
Vexorian	Code: function AddSpecialEffectForPlayer takes player p, string path, real x, real y returns effect if (GetLocalPlayer()!=p) then set path="" endif return AddSpecialEffect(path,x,y) endfunction

03-22-2005, 08:54 PM

iNfraNe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Vexorian

Code:

function AddSpecialEffectForPlayer takes player p, string path, real x, real y returns effect
     if (GetLocalPlayer()!=p) then
            set path=""
     endif
 return AddSpecialEffect(path,x,y)
endfunction

seeing vex likes short answers ill explain how 2do it with this jass code.

open up trigger editor, click on the map name and put the above code in there. Then in your trigger, do a custom script: call AddSpecialEffectForPlayer(whatever player u want, "Path with instead of 1 \, 2 times \ (so doodads\tree.mdx will become doodads\\tree.mdx)", x,y)

to make things easier, using a point variable (I think its easier :P) :

Code:

function AddSpecialEffectForPlayerLoc takes player p, string path, location where returns effect
     if (GetLocalPlayer()!=p) then
            set path=""
     endif
 return AddSpecialEffect(path,GetLocationX(where),GetLocationY(where))
endfunction

just make sure u clean up the location afterwards using RemoveLocation(), read the memory leak tutorial if u dont know what im talking about.

03-22-2005, 09:46 PM	#4
Lil Blue Smurf	Right on, thanks. I figured adding a special effect for only 1 player would desync.

03-22-2005, 09:58 PM	#5
Raptor--	cool, so the function returning (essentially) null for some players won't desync it? right on, opens up a world of coolness uh, what about keeping track of the special effects for later though? is it possible to assign these local special effects to a global variable for destruction later on?

03-23-2005, 07:25 AM	#6
iNfraNe	sure, all this does is create a special effect without a model for other players, so it does create a special effect, u just cant see it.