Ground explosion graphic

[Rugarus]

Screen capture - 25d8c8afd3ad45e458b32fb48f7d08e1 - Gyazo

How do I reduce the time of the ground explosion graphic?

 

[millzy]

reduce the

Art - death time

 

[Rugarus]

Sorry I mean the crater that is left on the ground, not the explosion. It seems to stay there for like 5-6 seconds.

 

[nedio95]

I believe it is a part of the death animation? Or is it Decay ?
Try changing the decay time or remove it completely?

 

[Rugarus]

I believe it is a part of the death animation? Or is it Decay ?
Try changing the decay time or remove it completely?

I can't seem to find a decay time property. I set it to does not raise, does not decay and still creates the crater afterwards.

 

[nedio95]

Hmmmmm... what if you remove the Art - Ground Texture ?

Edit// Or change Art - Special to that of a unit or remove it?

 

[Rugarus]

Didn't work.

 

[Rugarus]

So I tested it, and it seems units explode while doodads do not. But can't seem how to reduce the decay time of the explosion crater.

 

[millzy]

try reducing the decay time for structures in the gameplay constants

 

[Rugarus]

Screenshot - 5f3da704ad92279444bd78376cf11645 - Gyazo

I changed all the values to 1, still has the same time.

 

[Derse]

It's probably not a worthy solution, but you could remove dying unit from game and play special animation at the point of dying unit. It looks kinda ugly, but there is no crater.

Crater seems to be triggered by death but it is independent of the unit and death animation. Because when you wait even 0.1 second after death to remove the unit, it removes the death animation of the unit, but leaves the crater for 5-6 seconds. So perhaps it is in its own category somewhere.

 

[Rugarus]

It's probably not a worthy solution, but you could remove dying unit from game and play special animation at the point of dying unit. It looks kinda ugly, but there is no crater.

Crater seems to be triggered by death but it is independent of the unit and death animation. Because when you wait even 0.1 second after death to remove the unit, it removes the death animation of the unit, but leaves the crater for 5-6 seconds. So perhaps it is in its own category somewhere.

I think it might be due to the missile type. I'm gonna experiment with it and let ya know later.

 

[Rugarus]

I think it might be due to the missile type. I'm gonna experiment with it and let ya know later.

Edit: nope any one else have a better solution than custom death animation?

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

Splats created by models get their properties from slk data files.

Like most assets, you can edit and overwrite these files to change the appearance and duration of ubersplats in your map.

You simply extract the slk from the mpq, change the duration of the splat entry, and import the edited file into your map using the same path as it had in the mpq.

By the looks of it, you're looking for "DeathHumanLargeBuilding" in "Splats\UberSplatData.slk".