Remove props?

[freakbox]

Hello everyone.
So my question is the following, is there a way to remove props through triggers? I don't mean regular destructibles such as trees or crates, I'm talking about stacks of hay, bones on the ground, etc.
Thank you

 

[freakbox]

Bump.
Halp

 

[~El]

The short answer is that there's not really a way to do this, at least as far as I know.

The slightly longer answer is that you can sort of do this, but only if the props have a "death" animation.

Unfortunately, JASS does not expose any APIs to directly manipulate doodads, like, at all. The only exception to this are 2 natives:

native SetDoodadAnimation takes real x, real y, real radius, integer doodadID, boolean nearestOnly, string animName, boolean animRandom returns nothing
native SetDoodadAnimationRect takes rect r, integer doodadID, string animName, boolean animRandom returns nothing

The GUI equivalent would be this:

• Animation - Play the death animation for all doodads of type Camera Prop within (Playable map area)

If your props have a death animation, you may be able to hide them using this, however, I believe that it will not affect the pathing.

 

[Halithor]

Instead of using props, you could use a destructible. There's a number of triggers dealing with removing destructibles and the appearance of a destructible can be very similar to a prop.

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

Change the model file of a unit to be the prop you want, give it locust and movement type none, and remove all other properties that makes it able to move, be damaged, damage, be selected and so on.

Then you just do remove unit.

 

[Hermit]

Change the model file of a unit to be the prop you want...

What about fog of war? Doodads in explored areas stay visible, but units don't.

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

What about fog of war? Doodads in explored areas stay visible, but units don't.

According to the OP this was only for stacks of hay and bones, which I considered insignificant. For large doodads etc I wouldn't give the same advice.

 

[freakbox]

Well after doing a bit of research and trying pretty much every trigger in the editor, I've simply created my own destructibles using the props models.
You see, what I want is to be able to change what the map looks like as the game progresses, this includes not just deleting buildings and units but also props and thus spawning different buildings, units, and props, which is why simply hiding these props would be no good, I actually need the pathing to be available.
Thanks everyone for the replies

 

[Fang]

you can hide doodads in the trigger:

• Animation - Play the hide animation for doodad in rect