Add doodads/effects to towers

[haxel96]

Hello, long time no see! I just played a game of YouTD.
YouTD has lots of towers, and each tower consists of more then just 1 model, they are built by several models and effects. My question is, how did gex do that?

 

[David]

Well,first go to the trigger editor,add the even(Generic event) unit is builded.New condition Buildning unit equal to select the unit) then at the actions create a new one called special effect on unit,then select the place of the unit inside there and select the special effect...So simple!

 

[haxel96]

That is the easy way to do it, Gex chage size and position and facing etc of his doodads and effects, for each tower it would take a long trigger or many lines of vjass, and for all those towers in YouTD it would take way to many triggers / lines to fit in a wc3 map...

 

[Nudl9]

Alternatively you can make an ability based of storm bolts (human gryphon rider), remove the bonus effects and add special effect to the ability with attachments. Then proceed to add it to a unit.

edit: I'm not 100% if that particular ability works for this, but if not just try other ones. Might want to avoid aura abilities because of buffs.

 

[haxel96]

And still that allow you to attach a model, but you cant change scale, placement or anything like that.

 

[Nudl9]

There's no way of scaling attached special effects unless you scale the SFX model. However the ability still allows you to place models wherever you want, be it "hand, left", "foot" or "chest".

 

[WaterKnight]

If it is not a merged model, it should consist of dummy units or destructables with the separate models or several invisible units for each attached special effect.

gex automatized the process with own functions like

AddUnitTypeModel(unitType, model, offsetX, offsetY, offsetZ, facing, scale)

and afaik even built a GUI for it, so inputs in a menu get converted to such function calls that gets injected into the code.

@Nudl9: Attached special effects scale with their host.

 

[haxel96]

Well actually Gex wrote his own program to make towers out of doodads placed in a region or something, atleast thats how you make your own towers for YouTD.