Changing Decals in Game

[Ardnived]

Is it possible to change a unit's decal in game? I would guess through triggers.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Decal? What exactly do you mean?

 

[Ardnived]

The symbol that appears (For example), on the Marine's shoulder plating. You can change it in the editor by double-clicking the unit and changing the settings. And usually on Battle.net each player is able to select their default Decal, for Melee, and such.

 

[gT.ReD]

its part of the Textures tab in the Data Editor. sadly, i have no clue how to add new ones and also would like to know

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

The decals are a new feature of SC2 I really like. Basically my war3 map was using my logo on many places, shoulders, flags, buildings and i didnt even know SC2 had such things. So I can say I thought of decals myself but they are not white and black colors. So we will need to see a good way to edit an image and make it black-white to be a decal.

Im sorry I dont think you can change the decal ingame with triggers, just like you cant change player settings like change race, change status from Comp to say User, etc using triggers.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

You can do it with actor messages, I'm quite certain.

... Don't ask me how.

 

[Ardnived]

Thanks a ton RDZ

You were right, and it was pretty easy to figure out

"Actor - Send actor message (TextureSelectById Decal) to main actor of unit Unit"

When you are setting up the Send Actor Message function, go to the Function Tab, not Value, which is the default. Then you can set the Decal to any of the objects in the Textures tab of the Data Editor.