Special effect in front of unit

[Nikita17]

How to create special effects on a unit in front of its face and not underneath it?

 

[Nichilus]

You cannot. Effects created on a unit cannot have their positions changed.
The best you can do is create an effect at location instead of on unit. You can use unit's position as base and offset the effects location (x, y, z coordinates) to kind of get the area in front of its face.
It has two major drawbacks, though:

• The x/y/z offset is different from model to model and must be determined manually via trial and error. There is no convenient way which would give you the position of, for example, "head" attachment point.
• It will look strange during certain animations the model will be playing. For example Blood Mage moves his head a lot during his various attack/spell animations. As there is no way to get "head" attachment point's coordinates, it will be very hard for you to reliably calculate the offset yourself.

 

[Nikita17]

You cannot. Effects created on a unit cannot have their positions changed.
The best you can do is create an effect at location instead of on unit. You can use unit's position as base and offset the effects location (x, y, z coordinates) to kind of get the area in front of its face.
It has two major drawbacks, though:

• The x/y/z offset is different from model to model and must be determined manually via trial and error. There is no convenient way which would give you the position of, for example, "head" attachment point.
• It will look strange during certain animations the model will be playing. For example Blood Mage moves his head a lot during his various attack/spell animations. As there is no way to get "head" attachment point's coordinates, it will be very hard for you to reliably calculate the offset yourself.

This is exactly what doesn't work. I can create a dummy unit using coordinates right in front of the unit's face, but when I do the same with a special effect, it doesn't display.

 

[Nichilus]

Then you are doing something wrong

 

[Nikita17]

Can you show an example of how this can be done?

 

[Nichilus]

• Special Effect - Create a special effect at ((Position of your_unit) offset by 50.00 towards (Facing of your_unit) degrees.) using your_special_effect_path
• Special Effect - Set Height of (Last created special effect) to: your_desired_height