Discard Special Effects?

[Faestus]

What commands removes Special Effects?

I need a command that removes special effects without playing their death animation and another one that sets the Effect Variable null.

 

[nhocklanhox6]

Add special effect target on unit and then kill that unit , and then destroy that effect after unit disappear, you can use xedummy by vex.
If you use my way, that effect never play death animation.

 

[Binsu]

How about this:

• Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)

Though not exactly sure if it does not play the death animation or not. But I think this is the only way of removing it.

EDIT: Well if you meant SFX on unit, you got your answer above ^.^

 

[Faestus]

Add special effect target on unit and then kill unit , and then destroy that effect after unit disappear, you can use xedummy by vex.

Well yeah you see, that's not gonna work because my special effects are attached on a unit's attachment point.

And is there really no script/jass trick to do that?

 

[Binsu]

You can just mimic the SFX in an ability or spell then give it to the unit then to remove it, just simply remove it through removing the ability which AFAIK, will also remove the SFX itself from the unit.

 

[nhocklanhox6]

It's work 0.0, i often use it, an effect never play death animation when using that way

 

[Maker]

Destroying an effect plays the death animation, if the effect has a death animation. You can attach the effect to a dummy, and when you destroy it, hide the dummy. That hides the attached effect also.

 

[Faestus]

Destroying an effect plays the death animation, if the effect has a death animation. You can attach the effect to a dummy, and when you destroy it, hide the dummy. That hides the attached effect also.

But then it won't stick to specific points on the unit!

 

[PurgeandFire]

You should just edit the model. Usually the spell effects are only a few kb anyway.

Get MDLX converter:
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/mdlx-converter-62991/

Extract the model from the MPQ (you can use any mpq editor on the site), and then run it through MDLX converter to get the MDL file. Open it up in notepad. There will be an animations block somewhere in there, listing "Birth", "Death", etc.. in quotes. (you can just use CTRL+F and search for "Death") Rename "Death" to something else, such as "Glababalaloobala". That is a very good name for an animation. Run it back through MDLX converter, then import the mdx in your map. Change your spell to use the imported model instead (or the effect trigger, w/e).

Anyway, theoretically this should prevent the death animation from playing when it is removed. When a spell effect is created, the engine plays the "birth" animation for its duration and then plays the "stand" animation as a loop. When a "Destroy effect" is issued, it will look for the "Death" animation. If there is none, the model will likely just disappear (iirc). There might be an issue where it just stands there for a while before disappearing--I don't quite remember. If so, you may have to resort to a different method. Try it out.

 

[Faestus]

You should just edit the model. Usually the spell effects are only a few kb anyway.

Get MDLX converter:
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/mdlx-converter-62991/

Extract the model from the MPQ (you can use any mpq editor on the site), and then run it through MDLX converter to get the MDL file. Open it up in notepad. There will be an animations block somewhere in there, listing "Birth", "Death", etc.. in quotes. (you can just use CTRL+F and search for "Death") Rename "Death" to something else, such as "Glababalaloobala". That is a very good name for an animation. Run it back through MDLX converter, then import the mdx in your map. Change your spell to use the imported model instead (or the effect trigger, w/e).

Anyway, theoretically this should prevent the death animation from playing when it is removed. When a spell effect is created, the engine plays the "birth" animation for its duration and then plays the "stand" animation as a loop. When a "Destroy effect" is issued, it will look for the "Death" animation. If there is none, the model will likely just disappear (iirc). There might be an issue where it just stands there for a while before disappearing--I don't quite remember. If so, you may have to resort to a different method. Try it out.

I don't know...

That sounds overly-complicated.

Is there no Jass function?

 

[WaterKnight]

No. There is no direct way.

In the gameplay constants, you can set the removal time of sfx to 0 but then this will apply to all sfx and you cannot specifically set the animation of them either.

Now for unit-attached sfx, there were ways described to meddle with the unit. Trigger-created sfx vanish when the unit morphs for example.

@Hell_Master: Ability-applied effects will play the death animation when the ability is removed.

 

[Faestus]

It didn't really help...

 

[Faestus]

Bump...

Is there a way to discard a variable (at least)?

 

[WaterKnight]

Global variables are static. Local variables are auto-deleted when the function terminates. Gamecache/Hashtable has removal functions.

 

[Faestus]

Global variables are static. Local variables are auto-deleted when the function terminates. Gamecache/Hashtable has removal functions.

You know... The variable which defines the special effect?

Like set Speciall Effect variable to no effect.