[General] Special effect stopped playing while attached to point

[Dz1rT]

Ok, so I have a very strange thing happening to me. A model (this one in particular: Dirt Explosion) simpy suddenly stopped working while applied to a point (it still works while attached to a unit).

The main shocker is that I never changed anything in the trigger that used that special effect, it just stopped working while created as special effect on point. Why a thing like this could happen?

What is even more interesting, I checked one of my older version backups in which this model used to work, and it doesn't works there now.

 

[Pyrogasm]

If you're destroying the SFX right after you create it (which is common for point sfx) it will only play its death animation so the SFX will seem to disappear. That could be it. Could you post the trigger that creates the SFX?

 

[Dz1rT]

If I didn't expressed myself clearly:

I had this special effect working in this trigger like for more than a year. I did not changed that trigger or anything related to that trigger in any remote past. I also tested that special effect separately without anything intervening, and it still doesn't works when it is created on point, it works only on units. It previously used to work both ways, and it's not related to the trigger.

 

[Kaijyuu]

You could attach it to a dummy unit instead of a point. That doesn't answer why it's behaving that way, though.

 

[Dz1rT]

You could attach it to a dummy unit instead of a point. That doesn't answer why it's behaving that way, though.

I also tried it on a different map, and this effect seems to have stopped working altogether. This must be the wierdest thing happened to me in war3 evar.

 

[FUJI]

If you could have just show a test map or demo map you've encountering this problem. The model is fine since I've already used it in my spell years ago and it still works.

 

[Dz1rT]

Ok. Wierd thing I noticed is that it seems that not just this model, but every model (like NagaDeath for example) without any animation seeminly not working when created on point.

 

[FUJI]

The special effects works fine and perfectly in the test map.

 

[Dz1rT]

The special effects works fine and perfectly in the test map.

There are two of them. Left one works for me, right one doesn't. Do both of them work for you?

 

[FUJI]

Yeah the explosion works;
Even the naga death;

 

[Dz1rT]

Now I'm completely lost. Could my war3 be corrupted or something? Well, that could be the only logical explanastion, as this special effect worked for years, and now it just stopped for no reason...

 

[FUJI]

I don't know but it should be updated on a latest patch version. Also make sure your graphic details was set to high.

 

[Dz1rT]

LOL. You'll never guess what fixed this issue... System reboot

 

[Kaijyuu]

I was about to guess it, actually. Warcraft 3 seems to do something weird with caching resources. Occasionally special effects (even ones played in normal abilities, like the brewmaster fire breath) stop properly loading. This is persistent through closing and reopening the game.

Likely war3 is confusing the OS somehow and messing up the standard caching systems (most operating systems cache resources for programs so they don't have to hit the hard disk as often).