[Trigger] Adding a special effect to an invisible dummy unit?

[A Rather Wily Beaver]

Hi all,

I recently read somewhere that it's possible to use the same dummy for all of one's custom abilities. In the past, I've been making a new unit with a different model every time, but this would definitely be preferable, as the former clutters up my unit palette.

I'm running into a problem though: if I enter "none.mdl" for the dummy's model, none of the special effects I add to it are visible.

I tried making the dummy incredibly small, which kind of worked, but it's definitely not ideal; I can still see it, and it still makes death noises when it dies.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[WyrmSlayer]

You need to use an inivisible model that has attachment points like chest, origin or etc, wherein you attach the special effects to those points..

For example,

Vexorians dummy model

I think this model also has the adjustable pitch , use setunitanimationbyindex ( dummy unit, converted to integer of pitch angle u want)

 

[Pyrogasm]

You can use special effects directly now since you can set their animations, vertex color, and position with triggers. Otherwise, any attached effects inherit their model scale from the unit they’re attached to (if the unit is small the effects will be small).

It’s impossible to remove the sounds associated with destroying an effect. The best you can do is move the effect to a location on the map that players cannot see, then destroy it. I’ve written a simple library to do this in my Modular Mouse Spells spellpack in the resources. You are welcome to use it.

 

[cleavinghammer]

You can set the scale of special effects too, as I discovered yesterday.

 

[A Rather Wily Beaver]

Thank you all so much for your recommendations! I'll be sure to look into them.