Invisible unit.

[Megafyr]

Is there a way to make a unit that's visible to a player invisible to all other players?

Not really sure where to post this. :S

 

[-Berz-]

Wind walk? Permanent invisibility?

Or what do you mean?

~Berz

 

[Megafyr]

Wind walk? Permanent invisibility?

Or what do you mean?

~Berz

I'm planning on making a map where I use units as lightning effects. Each player has their own lightning effect units. But each player should also not be able to see the other players lighting effect units. So, for each player I want to create lights which only they are able to see.

 

[-Berz-]

The only thing i think of is Permanent Invisibility with duration 0.01, that 0.01 will make the unit invisible even if it attack/casts a spell. But it can be seen by gem of true sight.

 

[Megafyr]

The only thing i think of is Permanent Invisibility with duration 0.01, that 0.01 will make the unit invisible even if it attack/casts a spell. But it can be seen by gem of true sight.

Does that make the lightning unit transparent to the owner?

 

[-Berz-]

Hmm, I guess yes.

But you could fix that, with vertex coloring and transparent changes with triggers, its actually just one line to change that(Dunno i newer tried) But i guess it should work.

 

[Megafyr]

Hmm, I guess yes.

But you could fix that, with vertex coloring and transparent changes with triggers, its actually just one line to change that(Dunno i newer tried) But i guess it should work.

Well, I'm gonna try it like this. : ) Thanks for the help! +rep

 

[-Berz-]

NP.

Well if you have problems with this, you ask!

But really I'm not sure if that would work 100%, as i said i newer tried.

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

Should work if no players are allied.

 

[Megafyr]

Should work if no players are allied.

Ops.. Did I mention the players in this map are allied. :S

 

[VeljkoM]

Use undead ghost ability.It will make your unit transparent and it won't become visible even when attacks.But still allies will see it.

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

Ops.. Did I mention the players in this map are allied. :S

Then you need custom scripts, and all that kind of wacked stuff. Can't help you now : / Sorry.

 

[Shyhalu]

call SetUnitVertexColor(x, 0, 0, 0, 0)

X is the unit input. There is also a GUI variant. This will give the unit full tranparancy to others.

Not a full solution, but thats alwayts explorable.
I suggest you take off their shared vision if you want the unit to be shaded out to only the owner and invisible to the rest.

If you have low number of player slots being used, you could create a dummy force for each player with full shared unit control, and work with it from there....but thats probably less than optimal.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Will not work if the model has glow or particals, they are ignored by the vertex colour.