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Negative Flying Height

04-19-2006, 10:11 PM#1
Arkidas
Is it possible to move a unit to a negative flying height in-game?
I need to do this for an ability I'm making. It's a trap, When an enemy unit passes it it's supposed to sink in the ground. Any help appreciated.
04-19-2006, 10:22 PM#2
vile
I havent really tried this but I believe it cant be done. You can however, set the unit's fly height to - in the object editor instead of in game. If its a trap, you can create the unit, it wont be seen cuz its underground. Then if you use something like a terrain deform, to make the ground go down, the object will be seen. I've done this on one of my spells.
04-20-2006, 12:01 AM#3
iNfraNe
Nope, flyingheight doesnt work negative. what you can do is make (or let someone make) you a model which has an attachment point well below the unit and attach the real unit to that model making it appear lower than it really is.
04-20-2006, 12:16 AM#4
Arkidas
Thank you for the replies,
I guess I will have to skip this ability, It's just too much for me :)
04-20-2006, 05:28 AM#5
MaD[Lion]
Reminds me of a spell i made, a summoning spell, when cast 3 stones comes up from ground and between those stones a unit was summoned. Was no custom model, i used a negative flying height for the unit in unit editor
04-20-2006, 05:36 AM#6
PitzerMike
I've never had problems with negative flying height. You just have to turn unit pathing and all that off before it will work.
I've used it for a goblin driller unit ... unfortunately noone ever made a nice model for it.
04-20-2006, 05:04 PM#7
Chuckle_Brother
Yeah, I just tried, and it seems to work fine.
04-20-2006, 06:40 PM#8
iNfraNe
It does? my units always just stop at ground level :S I'll try again. Sorry to give out false info.
04-20-2006, 07:26 PM#9
vile
You have to set the minimum fly height to the same minus as well, else it wont work