Attaching a texture to a unit when it casts a spell.

[Map Designer]

Hi everybody.

In short words, I want the texture "Textures\Yellow_Star_Dim.blp" to appear in Uther's model when he cast a spell.

Elaborated:
In my map, I changed the model of the paladin here to Uther's model (basically the same, but with golden feature, such as hammer). The normal paladin has the texture:
Textures\Yellow_Star_Dim.blp
Typically, it is a shining light that appears in the hammer in the spell animation, and in channel animation, i.e. when the hero casts or is channeling a spell.

how can I make this light appear when my hero, with Uther's model, casts a spell, or channel spell? only for the period of casting. So, it should keep appearing when channeling spell, and should appear only for short time when casting a spell.

it will be very clear if you just opened worldEditor and checked spell and channel animation, for both Uther and the paladin hero.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

maybe animation: play unit animation will do the trick.

 

[Maker]

Maybe you could use a special effect attached to the weapon attachment point instead.

 

[Arhowk]

cannot attach or change textures to specific models.

Makers idea is what you probably should do. Create a model using that texture and show it on the weapon of uther when he casts a spell

 

[Map Designer]

make a model and import it? I want to avoid importing files: my map is small and I want to keep it small. I have a model that works good , but it is larger than the map. Is there no other way.

 

[Arhowk]

you realize a 1 poly model to show the light would be around 1kb?

 

[Map Designer]

O.K. but I have no idea how to do that model.... I just know its path.

 

[Arhowk]

you were sleeping when you wrote that? :O

anyway, post up a request for a square model with the texture that u selected as the flat

 

[Map Designer]

No. I was almost.