Invisibility of...... a city ?

[Geoffroy77]

Hi everybody, i try to use the hide of the night elves to hide their ancients and all structures but it doesn't work so someone have an idea ?
thx for helping

 

[Kala]

Try using "Permanent invisibility" ability

 

[Bloodprice]

you should try make them transparent or hide them in triggers

 

[Geoffroy77]

the problem with permanent invisibility : there are always invisible ^^' and for transparent or trigger -> useless or i can't use them (if hide)

 

[crimson fire]

edit your invisibility ability to match your city (structure)

 

[Geoffroy77]

i would like but how ^^" ?

 

[crimson fire]

like create your own invisibility ability, name it whatever you want, add it to the buildings you want and in the invisibility ability the part that says Stats-Targets alowed put Ground and Struture

 

[Geoffroy77]

i will look and tell you if it's work

 

[RoboHippo]

Trigger 1:

If it's night, and a night elf building is made, give it invisibility.

• Constructed Invis Building
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Finishes construction
  • Conditions
    • ((Constructed structure) is A structure) Equal to True
    • (Race of (Owner of (Constructed structure))) Equal to Night Elf
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (In-game time of day) Greater than 6.00
        • (In-game time of day) Less than or equal to 18.00
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Add Permanent Invisibility to (Constructed structure)
      • Else - Actions

Trigger 2:

Each game-day is 480 seconds. If you set the game to start at noon or midnight, this will work. If not, use a wait action at the beginning of Actions to time it properly.

• Invisible Buildings
  • Events
    • Time - Every 240.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set TempUnitGroup = (Units in (Playable map area) matching ((((Matching unit) is A structure) Equal to True) and ((Race of (Owner of (Matching unit))) Equal to Night Elf)))
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Level of Permanent Invisibility for (Random unit from TempUnitGroup)) Equal to 0
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit Group - Pick every unit in TempUnitGroup and do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • Unit - Add Permanent Invisibility to (Picked unit)
      • Else - Actions
        • Unit Group - Pick every unit in TempUnitGroup and do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • Unit - Remove Permanent Invisibility from (Picked unit)
    • Custom script: call DestroyGroup( udg_TempUnitGroup )

This should work for a fairly basic scenario. If it starts at night, you'll need a third trigger to give all night-elf buildings invis at the start.

Also, it might be better to use a unit-type comparison, rather than a player race one, in case someone builds another race's units (charmed a worker, etc.)

 

[Geoffroy77]

good idea =) but maybe too hard and there is possibility it doesn't work and crimson i try it still doesn't work

 

[Adiktuz]

RoboHippo's suggestion is okay though it will not work if you change the duration of 1 whole day...

I guess you can try a periodic loop that checks whether it is day or night...

 

[Cruncher]

I just tested it out.
Just make sure you know two things
Night Elf buildings are classified as ancients
And two even if it doesn't look like its invisible, it is. I tried it with a big bunch of neutral creeps. They hit it then i changed to night and after i clicked hide they went away

Hope that helps

 

[Geoffroy77]

oh yeah i tried with a computer and it's work ty everybody =)