Give invisible units visible footprints?

[severed]

Is it possible to show visible footprints when a unit is invisible?

 

[Jampion]

Footprints are connected to the model and so they will always be invisible, if the unit itself is invisible. You will have to use a workaround. Maybe if you have two models of the same unit. The first is the normal unit without footprints and the second one is the unit with only its footprints. The "footprint" unit would always be at the same position as the normal unit. Using the locust ability on the footprint model, other units won't be able to interact with it. Locust makes a unit invulnerable, untargetable, unselectable, does not show health bar and probably a lot more things.
If you think of the locusts from locust swarm, these are actual units, but have the locust ability, so you can't interact with them.

It's a lot work and I doubt it's worth it. Hopefully there is an easier solution, but I can't think of any right now.

 

[Rheiko]

Just give the second unit no model file and probably turned off collision. Use trigger to command the second unit to move to first unit location as frequent as possible. You must put things like teleportation into account, though.

 

[severed]

Is there a way to do this without making a new unit for every unit?

 

[A Void]

Did you try this?

• Animation - Change (Triggering unit)'s vertex coloring to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) with 100.00% transparency

Setting vertex transparency will still show particles and foot prints but the model itself will be invisible.

 

[severed]

cool that might help, Ill try this out later