Making a Ghost Ship

[ShenLong Kazama]

I wanna make a ghost ship in the editor. I wanted to use a normal ship model and than editing the transperence and color so that it his half invisible and glowing, but how can i do that?

 

[aple]

Uh, to my knowledge that's not possible without editing the model. xD

You should still be able to change the color, and I suppose if you want it to look transparent you could give it permanent hide like Akama.

So, I suppose it's possible I dunno why I said that what I said at first. =O

 

[Boar]

Uh, to my knowledge that's not possible without editing the model. xD

You should still be able to change the color, and I suppose if you want it to look transparent you could give it permanent hide like Akama.

So, I suppose it's possible I dunno why I said that what I said at first. =O

Hush.


It is possible to do this without editing the model; Quite simply by using triggers. (I dont have access to war3 right now, this is from memory)

Note: Transperancy may be typed as Opacity in the editor.

• Animation - Set Transperancy of unit to XX

Or

• Animation - Set color of unit to XXX, XXX, XXX and transperancy to XXX

One of these triggers is the right one, you have to set the event so that when the "Ship enters map" then run said trigger for the "Triggering unit", setting the transperancy to what you want.

 

[defskull]

• Animation - Change Ghost Ship 0000 <gen>'s vertex coloring to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) with 50.00% transparency

Since you can't do this in Object Editor (not pre-set unit), use this trigger instead:

• Transparent
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit enters (Playable map area)
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Ghost Ship
  • Actions
    • Animation - Change (Triggering unit)'s vertex coloring to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) with 50.00% transparency

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

And how can i edit the ship if it's already on the map or i create a new one? Like a unit?

 

[Maker]

^The trigger that defskull posted will change the transparency of units that are created during the game.

This will change the transparency of all existing units of the defined type, you can run this at map initialization for example:

• Untitled Trigger 060
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: set bj_wantDestroyGroup = true
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Playable map area) matching ((Unit-type of (Matching unit)) Equal to Ghost ship)) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Animation - Change (Picked unit)'s vertex coloring to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) with 50.00% transparency

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

Okay now i know how to edit an existing unit. But how can i make it work, that when i start to create a unit in a building for example like soldiers or zeppelins and ships, that the unit has the ghostly look?

 

[defskull]

a unit in a building

Explain this.

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

You can buy or rent ships at a port ingame and you can create units in the barracks. What i mean is that it should work like this: You have a building and that offers the ship, you start creating the ship and when the ship appears it's already ghost like. So the ship should be already look like a ghost ship before the creating progress is over.

 

[defskull]

• Ghost Ship
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Finishes training a unit
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Trained unit)) Equal to *YourUnit*
  • Actions
    • Animation - Change (Trained unit)'s vertex coloring to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) with 50.00% transparency

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

Thanks for your help, it works now.

 

[SA Dashie]

You might wana add some special effects to the ship to make it look more like a ghost ship=D it'll truly make it go to its full potential.

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

I know, like a fog or something which surrounds the ship. But how can i do that actually?

 

[defskull]

Use this:

• Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the chest of (Trained unit) using Abilities\Spells\Human\CloudOfFog\CloudOfFog.mdl

 

[SA Dashie]

• Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the overhead of (Triggering unit) using Abilities\Spells\Human\Banish\BanishTarget.mdl

this will create a special effect over head but I don't know the text to create it going around the unit.

edit: aww bch you got there when I was doing it defskull

 

[defskull]

Yeah beach

Btw, why (Triggering unit) when it is (Trained unit) event lolx

 

[SA Dashie]

just my laziness. when I think about it I dont think (triggering unit) works as the triggering unit will the the unit training the unit. Oh well

 

[defskull]

Ghost Goblin Shipyard then. HAHA

 

[mckill2009]

while coloring is good but since it is a ghost ship, why not add ghost ability?...

 

[SA Dashie]

because that makes it useeable by the enemy.

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

Another question, how can i add the ghost effect to multiple units without selecting each single unit?

 

[SA Dashie]

How do you want this event to occur and is it on multiple unit types, do you want it to be set on the unit when it is created or by ability? We need a bit more of a specific answer.

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

Okay, i made two different units. And if some of them are already on the map or i create them after the map's start they should be like the ghost ship. It's not that easy, i placed a few of them on my map but i can't make a trigger which changes the type of the certain units to ghost units.

 

[SA Dashie]

umm......This?

• Conditions
  • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Ghost Ship

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

Nope doesn't work.

 

[Trillium]

there are some good fog models in UTM (Ultimate Terraining Map - found in terraining forum)

 

[Maker]

For units that are created during the game:

• Untitled Trigger 088
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit enters (Playable map area)
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Ghost ship
  • Actions
    • *Manipulate Triggering unit*

For pre-placed units:

• Untitled Trigger 088
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: set bj_wantDestroyGroup = true
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Playable map area) matching ((Unit-type of (Matching unit)) Equal to Ghost ship)) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • *Manipulate Picked unit*

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

Could you make a map please? Can't get it to work really.

 

[Bribe]

Could you please outline what the remaining unsolved problems are? You can try uploading your work-in-progress.

These things are more conducive to getting help than simply bumping the thread.

 

[ShenLong Kazama]

I need two triggers, one which changes a specific type of units that are already on the map to look like ghosts and second a trigger which changes units to look like ghosts after they were created.

Bump.

 

[Bribe]

Moved to the Requests forum as World Editor Help Zone hasn't yielded any help here.

 

[TheWhiteWolf]

This is all you should do:

GhostShip

• Events
  • Map Initialization
• Condition
• Actions
  • Animation - Change (Random Unit from (Units in (Playable Map Area) matching ((Unit-type of (Matching Unit) equal to Ghost Ship)))'s vertex coloring to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) with 50.00% transparency
  • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the chest of (Random Unit from (Units in (Playable Map Area) matching ((Unit-type of (Matching Unit) equal to Ghost Ship))) using units\undead\PlagueCloud\PlagueCloud.mdl

You will get a nice model of an scary ghost ship. I think it is better to use undead ship for this, but it is completely your choice. Also, I could make you a model of a ghost ship if you want. Just contact me