Size Special effect

[AtivEnergy]

How to increase the size of Special effects?
Please help me!
[i'm noob]

 

[Chaosy]

1. download a MPQ editor
2. open the warcraft 3 MPQ and extract the model file
3. download a model editor of choice
4. change the size of the model

here's a few links with other people requesting the same, I assume it could be helpful.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...-resize-model-warcraft-3-model-editor-128235/
http://www.wcunderground.com/model-resizing-tutorial-t1529.html
http://chaosrealm.info/topic/8346885/1/

 

[Paulus]

I usually make units with the special effect as model. And then i collor and re-size and with triggers the animationspeed slower/faster or slowly make em transparent.

 

[Veritas 117]

I usually make units with the special effect as model. And then i collor and re-size and with triggers the animationspeed slower/faster or slowly make em transparent.

By model I assume you mean unit. This is the same method I use. It allows you to move them, resize them, color them, raise and lower them, etc. It's pretty damn useful. Just give them the locust ability and they will be unselectable. You will probably also want to make them flying and set their collision size to 0

 

[Nichilus]

Beware tho - even if they look like effects, they're still units. That means they take more processing power than special effects because they're still units (due to how more complicated units are compared to special effects).

Just for comparison, I made a spell for my map which caused a meteor to drop down. When it crashed into ground, it exploded and created ~40 small fires in the area it affected. With those fires as units, I experienced some serious fps drops, although the code was cleaner (did not need any loop, I just set them correctly in object editor and assigned timed life to them upon creation). When I remade the trigger and just used special effects instead of units, those fps drops disappeared. Of course the trigger I had to make was more complicated as I cannot give timed life to special effects, so I had to keep track of it myself.

So probably a few units that serve as graphical effects ain't that bad, but if you want to spam many effects at once, you should consider scaling the model via some 3rd party tool like chaosy wrote and use them as special effects, not units.