Passive effects

[WarCortez]

I'm puzzled. I tried giving burning oil and freezing breath to a melee unit, but it's not working. When I gave it to a ranged unit, it seemed worked properly, so it must be tied to the projectile. Is there a way to disable that, so my melee unit can have it as passive?

 

[Pyrogasm]

No, they require the "missile" weapon type to work. You can give your units missile attack and with a short enough range it will appear to be melee, though.

 

[WarCortez]

Isn't there any way around it? I thought about a very small range missile attack too, but the problem with it is that it gets bonus from things like Trueshot Aura.

 

[Pyrogasm]

1. Give them the "ancient" classification in the the editor and make your trueshot aura and other things that should only work on ranged units have "non-ancient" in their targets list.
2. Remove the abilities from the melee unit (keep some dummy passives probably to show on the command card). Instead, on every attack spawn a ranged dummy unit with 1-1 damage and the appropriate abilities, then order that unit to attack the melee unit's target.
3. Trigger the effects entirely yourself (Freezing Breath is gonna be a little harder but Burning Oil is reasonably simple).

 

[WarCortez]

Thanks, I'll try it.

Edit: slow poison seem to achieve a similar effect, although it's a bit slow and I'm not sure how to remove to poison-like effect on the target.

 

[Acutesharpness]

Use damage detection system and run the effect with a dummy unit, this will work for all classes and even able to use it as a spell bonus.

 

[WarCortez]

Isn't there just a way to turn off its visual? It supposed to be a passive ability for siege unit that causes building to "collapse". However, I'm unable to change the visuals, so it always shows the green, poisonous cloud. Other than the visual effect, I'd be okay with how to slow poison works.

 

[Pyrogasm]

You should be able to delete all the models listed under "Art" on the ability and the buff it applies to make it completely invisible. Be aware that if you delete the buff from the ability it will use the default buff for it (with associated visuals) because you can't have no buff.

If that doesn't work then slow poison is unique and can't be changed, but I feel that's unlikely.

 

[WarCortez]

Those arts by default seem empty. I've tried changing buff into earthquake, but it remained the poison cloud.

 

[Pyrogasm]

and the buff it applies

Delete Art - Target from Slow Poison (Stacking) and Slow Poison (Non-stacking). It works fine for me; I think you forgot to update the buff used by your new Slow Poison.

Spellbreakers have slow poison with no art.

 

[WarCortez]

I always tried to replace the buff in the ability section. If I only used one of the new buffs, it didn't work, but putting in both somehow did. Apparently it needs to have 2 buffs for that. Thanks, it solved the animation issue.