Making buffs invisible

[MonkeyWithoutHands]

Is there any way to make buffs invisible, so they won't show an icon in the unit's status bar? Even if I remove tooltip, icon and description, it will steal some other buff's icon and show "tooltip missing".

 

[Maker]

You can not really hide buffs, but maybe you can use something that doesnät apply a buff.

What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[Dr Super Good]

In WarCraft III it is not possible as buffs are prety hard coded (all buffs must have an icon and most things that create a buff always create a buff). You can however try and use abilities which do not create buffs and triggers to obtain the same or simlar results to abilities that do create buffs. The exact method of doing this (if possible) depends on the ability you want to use but not make a buff.

In StarCraft II this is possible via setting the hidden flag on the behaviour.

 

[MonkeyWithoutHands]

Thanks for your replies, but what about the hardcoded buffs that don't have tooltip and icons, like "frozen" or "drain life? Will they do the same as other empty buffs, or do the abilities using them hide them?

Anyway, the buffs I was trying to hide were from command aura (a side effect of my vampiric aura that already gives a buff), and tornado slow which gives a hero glow to non-hero models. I know I can use triggers to give that damage bonus instead of command aura, but that isn't very efficient way of doing it. And I have no idea how to make the heroglow work without tornado slow, as it changes the glow to the color of the player.

 

[Adiktuz]

for hero glow, you can use the unit ability sphere, you can also use the item ability damage bonus...