[General] Is AddSpecialEffect broken?

[Robbepop]

Hi,

I am trying to use goo'old

AddSpecialEffect(string modeName, real x, real y)

native and cannot seem to get a special effect shown up for it if the special effect has no animations.

This this has never made any problems to me in the past I suggest this might be related to a bug since recent versions of WarCraft III?

AddSpecialEffectTarget

works like a charm. But unfortunately I need AddSpecialEffect to work.

Note that it seems to me that special effect having animations do NOT suffer from this problem.

For example:

AddSpecialEffect(
    "Abilities\\Spells\\Human\\MassTeleport\\MassTeleportTo.mdl",
    GetUnitY(builder),
    GetUnitX(builder)
)

works fine, while

AddSpecialEffect(
    "Abilities\\Spells\\NightElf\\Blink\\BlinkCaster.mdl",
    GetUnitY(builder),
    GetUnitX(builder)
)

does not.
And the only difference (as far as I can see) is that MassTeleportTo.mdl has animations and BlinkCaster.mdl does not.

 

[BloodSoul]

Weird. It actually works as intended for the latest patch version here. Maybe the reason for such behavior is happening because you swapped X and Y coordinates within the function call? (assuming you did the same thing in your actual code)

 

[Robbepop]

Hey, good catch!
However, I haven't swapped them in my real code.
This Y/X swap was introduced as one of my many many many tests - didn't help either.

 

[ZiBitheWand3r3r]

Did you set decay time for effects in gameplay constants to zero maybe?

 

[Robbepop]

I just looked that up.
Decay time for effects was modified from 5.0 seconds to 2.0 seconds.
It never was critical and always worked, until recently - couldn't even remember that I once changed it.
Setting it back from 2.0 to 5.0 seconds fixed the issue ...

Thanks!

 

[Dark-Zalor]

I have the same problem. In my map it was working and now since 2 days it does not display anything even if I preload the effects.
Same as you the native "AddSpecialEffectTarget" is still working.

My map is heavy but I've never seen that problem.

My decay time of effect is set to 5 seconds.

Does anyone has a solution? I have a the latest version of warcraft 3 classic.

 

[Drake53]

I have the same problem. In my map it was working and now since 2 days it does not display anything even if I preload the effects.
Same as you the native "AddSpecialEffectTarget" is still working.

My map is heavy but I've never seen that problem.

My decay time of effect is set to 5 seconds.

Does anyone has a solution? I have a the latest version of warcraft 3 classic.

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