[Help] Special Effects With Height

04-15-2008, 01:20 AM	#1
Tide-Arc Ephemera	Yeah, simple problem. How can I create special effects with height? I don't care if it's GUI or Jass, but if it's in Jass a small walk through of it would be nice. vJass or any non-vanilla Jass WILL cause problems to me, though. Thanks ahead. This "request" sounds familiar to me, so feel free to tell me... I did search but I couldn't find anything with my answer.

04-15-2008, 01:32 AM	#2
moyack	Download the global dummy unit made by vexorian: You can find it in the shrapnade spell made by Rising Dusk Create a dummy unit and then assign the dummy model for it Create a effect in the origin of the unit. and then set fly height to the model.

04-15-2008, 01:47 AM	#3
Tide-Arc Ephemera	Well... that may not be the best option for me as I'm generating roughly 200 effects or something... I thought in the JassVault (or whatever it's called, I forgot) they had something which used a dummy doodad method. Or is Vexorian's dummy model the only real solution here...?

04-15-2008, 01:49 AM

Rising_Dusk

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tide-Arc-Ephemera

Well... that may not be the best option for me as I'm generating roughly 200 effects or something... I thought in the JassVault (or whatever it's called, I forgot) they had something which used a dummy doodad method.

You can do it with elevators, but it's a lamer method than using dummy units with attached effects.

04-15-2008, 02:48 AM

Vexorian

Quote:

roughly 200 effects

Why do you think doodads would be more efficient than units?

200 is quite a low number anyways.

04-15-2008, 02:58 AM	#6
PurgeandFire111	You can either do it the way moyack said, or just do something like this: http://wc3jass.com/viewtopic.php?t=2472&start=0

04-15-2008, 07:08 AM

Tide-Arc Ephemera

Quote:

Originally Posted by PurgeandFire111

You can either do it the way moyack said, or just do something like this:
http://wc3jass.com/viewtopic.php?t=2472&start=0

That was the one I was looking for, I have it bookmarked to keep track of it.

On other notes...
+Rep to everyone who helped.

EDIT!

JASS:

function AddSpecialEffectZ takes string path, real x, real y, real z returns effect
    local destructable d = CreateDestructableZ( 'OTip', x, y, z, 0.00, 1, 0 )
    set bj_lastCreatedEffect = AddSpecialEffect( path, x, y )
    call RemoveDestructable( d )
    set d = null
    return bj_lastCreatedEffect
endfunction

If I were to call this through GUI, would I open a custom script call and then do "call AddSpecialEffectZ(theeffectiwanthere.mdx, x, y, z)"?

04-15-2008, 09:20 AM	#8
Malf	Trigger: Events Conditions Actions Custom script: call AddSpecialEffectZ(theeffectiwanthere.mdx, x, y, z) Btw, if the effect was attached to the destructible, wouldn't it go away when the destructible is destroyed?