Customizing Locus Swarm

[Yin-Yang]

I need to customize Locus Swarm, right now it is fine except I can not change the model/art of the skill with out the game crashing when I execute it. How do a make it look different without crashing WC3?

 

[Thrikodius]

Well the Locust Swarm sends out units so changing the model of the unit (Undead - Units - Locust) should work.
If this is what you did then I don't know how to fix your problem.

 

[apocalypse_dude]

In durotar campaign there is a trollhero called zuljin oder something he has a custom locust swarm called big bad voodoo or something
You can just look at that to see what you have to change

 

[Thrikodius]

The heroes name is Rokhan and the spell is called Voodoo Spirits. In spite of the name, tooltip and the number of levels its the same as Locust Swarm.

 

[EricDaRed]

Go into the object editor and copy + paste the locust unit. Then rename the locust unit to whatever you desire and change the model file to match. Next, change the type of summoned unit in your locust swarm based custom spell to your newly created unit.

You will also need to change the looping sound and a few other things to make the new spell feel right.