Actor Visibility

[mrzwach]

Hey, just wondering, is there any way to make an actor visible ONLY to one player?

I want to create range indicators for abilities (using custom UI) via triggers, only it seems that they are always visible to everyone. This means that everyone else can tell when you are preparing an ability, kinda lame.

Thanks.

 

[EnderA]

I know there is, given the comments for the Actor natives. (http://paste.sc2mapster.com/1979/)

// - Trigger code is synchronous and actors are asynchronous. This means we can't have any
// routines that return any results, since anything from the actor system is suspect.
// This includes even the existence of actors themselves; an actor might only be created on
// machines with good graphics cards, for instance.

(Not sure exactly how to do it, though.)

 

[Mooglefrooglian]

That quote means nothing at all.

He wants an invisible actor, actor for one person. Do you see return anywhere in there?

 

[Dr Super Good]

I thought SC2 had its own range display stuff.

 

[mrzwach]

Well yeah, but for the map I was making it used a custom UI rather than the base UI. So, you would press a key on the keyboard to activate an ability, upon which it would display a range-indicator around you to show where you can use that ability.

But I kinda scrapped that project anyways so meh.

 

[Mooglefrooglian]

Having a GetLocalPlayer() would be really nice.

 

[EnderA]

That quote means nothing at all.

He wants an invisible actor, actor for one person. Do you see return anywhere in there?

Hmm... after looking a bit further, there appears to be no currently available function to do so. Also, within that comment it says "Trigger code is synchronous", and it further elaborates that they make every effort to have the actor functions be synchronous:

In other words, the client always appears to get a valid object,
but the user has no way of actually knowing whether it was valid,
except to look at the screen.

So right now, there isn't any method of getting a local player. It's also possible there never will be.

On the other hand, there is probably a method of making a unit/actor invisible/transparent (not just cloaked) and then share visibility with certain players, or something to that effect.