making an artillery attack impact in air

[darwin]

I want a unit to fire an artillery-style attack (an aoe attack that responds to "attack-ground" orders) that hits air units only. Getting the unit's attack to only hit air units is easy. But here is the problem:

Visually, the unit's missile still arcs and hits on the ground. I want it to fly up in the air and detonate.

Is there anyway to do this? I'm stumped.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums...stem-v1-02-a-157856/?prev=d=list&r=20&u=nfwar

Only making your own projectile systems can solve this.

 

[darwin]

Damn, I can make those, but unfortunately they don't let the missile tilt up and down as needed. Oh well, thanks anyway.

 

[LordDz]

You could also just create a flying dummy unit at the target you want to attack, order your unit to attack the dummy unit when attacking.

How you would hide the unit from the player's view I don't know, but there is probably a way or two.

 

[darwin]

That's an interesting idea... I suppose if artillery doesn't work I could use missile (splash) instead, no?

 

[LordDz]

Yes, just set missile homing to false.

 

[Meticulous]

You could also just create a flying dummy unit at the target you want to attack, order your unit to attack the dummy unit when attacking.

How you would hide the unit from the player's view I don't know, but there is probably a way or two.

Same way you'd normally make a dummy unit, but rather than making it a locust (which can't be attacked), set the selection scale to -1 and make it neutral so it isn't an auto-acquire target.

 

[darwin]

Worked like a charm, thanks! I just set the model to some nonsense... and it dies pretty fast. It's also during an arcade style map so the player really can't select it anyway.

+rep all around, thanks again guys!