[Trigger] Bending lightning effect!?

[Kazemaru]

How to make the lightning effect to bend with only few variables? I have seen many of maps where people makes lightning effects as a circle...

 

[krisserz]

So you wanna create lighting circle?

 

[Kazemaru]

Half circle if possible :3 Or when unit moves the lightning effect gets behind and it wont get stright.

 

[M4stah]

Lots of dummy units use a dummy lightning effect on each to form a circle?

 

[krisserz]

Make loop with effect or dummies

 

[Kazemaru]

Lots of dummy units use a dummy lightning effect

But you need to destroy them sooner or later so it needs tons of variables :S

How to make loop? could you show a trigger sample

 

[M4stah]

Kazemaru, just make a dummy ability with only the lightning effect? Thats how I would do it.

 

[krisserz]

Yea you will be able to destroy dummies when you want

 

[Kazemaru]

But what to do with lightning effects? doesnt they leak there or just stay there for ever?

 

[krisserz]

when they are on dummies no

 

[Kazemaru]

Ok ty ^^

 

[krisserz]

You can never kill them or expire after some time

 

[Dark.Revenant]

Create a quick jass function in the map initialization that takes two coordinate pairs and spawns lightning between those and destroys it soon thereafter. Create a loop, in GUI if you will, that calls this function in short intervals along a circle. There are better ways of doing this with timers, but that's more complicated.