[General] Shadow for local player?

[Antares]

Hello,

basically the title. Is there a good way to create a shadow on the map that isn't seen by all players without causing a desync?

Changing player alliances to do it with invisible units would lead to a lot of other problems.

 

[ThompZon]

Hello,

basically the title. Is there a good way to create a shadow on the map that isn't seen by all players without causing a desync?

Changing player alliances to do it with invisible units would lead to a lot of other problems.

Would a shadow be possible to do with Special Effects? Effect visibility can be different for local player, does that help? Note that you must still create the vfx for all players.

 

[Antares]

I'm not sure, but I don't think special effects can have shadows.

 

[LeP]

I have not tested this so it might not be possible anymore but in the past you could catch the shadow of a unit like this. Now if that still works you can instead of destroying the units shadow simply hide it locally.

Edit: i guess you only want to do images and not crazy unit shadow stuff. I'm pretty sure you can safely show and hide images locally.

 

[Uncle]

Ideas:
Create a Dummy unit and Hide it locally. Sounds desyncy.
Create a Special Effect using a "shadow model". This one is safe if you adjust the model path locally.

 

[Antares]

Where can I find the shadow models/images in the mpq?

 

[Antares]

There are unitrealfields

UNIT_RF_SHADOW_IMAGE_HEIGHT, UNIT_RF_SHADOW_IMAGE_WIDTH, UNIT_RF_SHADOW_IMAGE_CENTER_X, UNIT_RF_SHADOW_IMAGE_CENTER_Y.

This means I should be able to adjust the shadow size of a unit locally without desync?

 

[ThompZon]

I have not experimented with them personally, but they are "art"-related and most of the art-related fields are ok to locally change.
Some fields don't really work, but if they do I'm pretty sure it'd be fine without desync (but I'd make a simple map and test it of course).

 

[Antares]

Setting the field doesn't work. Can only use get. Back to square one.

 

[Antares]

I set up two destructables, one with a shadow and one without, then I create a destructable with a different id for different players. This doesn't seem to cause a desync.