Making it impossible to see a (round) area.

[Sephalo]

I want to know if its possible to hide a small round area's vision so that ppl cannot see what happens in it. It shouldnt block the sight (so no sight blockers) because the things behind it should still be seen.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

 

[rulerofiron99]

I was typing up a solution but then I read the part about no LOS blockers...

I suggest a large opaque cloud model of some sort. High enough to block all models below it, but low and wide enough to prevent players from adjusting their cameras to see underneath it. You'd probably also have to make it selectable to prevent units underneath being targetted.

Otherwise you'd have to make a custom line of sight system.

 

[Sephalo]

well its like in this picture.
The brown area is where units will move.
The black area is where units cannot be seen.

It's an arena, and in the middle there's a platform with players that can watch at the game while they cannot be seen by the other players. So that's why I don't want to use line of sight blockers, since I want the spectators to view the arena too, and sight blockers always block from 2 sides.

 

[rulerofiron99]

And you don't want to use cliffs because?

 

[Sephalo]

Cant really use cliffs because the area is pretty small. Could try it out, but I have to manage the sight very accurate so that I don't hide a part of the playable area.

EDIT:
But I might found a solution. I'm gonna try it out tomorrow.

It's that I reduce the sight range of units that enter the arena to 0 with a sight range ability with a negative value.
Then I just reveal the entire area they can move through and hide the area in the middle.

 

[rulerofiron99]

So Option B: custom LOS system it is then.

Extension of Option C: cliffs - put ramps on all sides and use the terrain height tool to "flatten" the cliff.

 

[Spartipilo]

You could use some sort of small "Dome" model, and make it black

 

[mckill2009]

IDEA:
Make a dummy player with a dummy unit, put it in the middle of the arena with range of sight range same as the arena...
when battle begins, make the player of hero1 and hero2 ally with sight of the dummy player, when battle ends, make them enemies...