Attaching Special Effect on custom ability

[udg_Potato]

I'm using this ability made by one of the Hive users and it works perfectly fine.

However whenever I try to add this custom model to the position or on the unit, it doesn't properly play the animation of the added spell.

I just want the bladestorm animation happening whenever counter helix procs and that it gets removed immediately after the ability has been triggered. I'm using blademaster hero with barbarian skin on top of that (supports spinning animations).

 

[Uncle]

You need to destroy temporary Special Effects like these or else they'll leak, however, not every Special Effect model is designed to work properly when this happens. Some models don't have a Death animation and thus when destroyed they'll disappear abruptly. You probably won't even see the Special Effect in the first place because it's destroyed immediately after it's created.

If that's the issue then you need to destroy the special effect after a delay to allow it to play a good portion of it's initial Birth/Stand animation. I attached a map with a simple system for doing so.

Here are the triggers if you can't open the map:

• Delayed Destroy Effect
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: local effect sfx = GetLastCreatedEffectBJ()
    • Wait Delayed_Duration seconds
    • Custom script: call DestroyEffect(sfx)
    • Custom script: set sfx = null

An example of using it:

• Example DDE
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the chest of (Triggering unit) using Abilities\Spells\Human\DivineShield\DivineShieldTarget.mdl
    • Set VariableSet Delayed_Duration = 1.00
    • Trigger - Run Delayed Destroy Effect <gen> (ignoring conditions)

 

[udg_Potato]

You need to destroy temporary Special Effects like these or else they'll leak, however, not every Special Effect model is designed to work properly when this happens. Some models don't have a Death animation and thus when destroyed they'll disappear abruptly. You probably won't even see the Special Effect in the first place because it's destroyed immediately after it's created.

If that's the issue then you need to destroy the special effect after a delay to allow it to play a good portion of it's initial Birth/Stand animation. I attached a map with a simple system for doing so.

Here are the triggers if you can't open the map:

• Delayed Destroy Effect
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: local effect sfx = GetLastCreatedEffectBJ()
    • Wait Delayed_Duration seconds
    • Custom script: call DestroyEffect(sfx)
    • Custom script: set sfx = null

An example of using it:

• Example DDE
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the chest of (Triggering unit) using Abilities\Spells\Human\DivineShield\DivineShieldTarget.mdl
    • Set VariableSet Delayed_Duration = 1.00
    • Trigger - Run Delayed Destroy Effect <gen> (ignoring conditions)

Excellent work, will check it out once I get on my laptop! Thanks for the help.