Special Effects won't work on a point...

[darwin]

I think my WC3 editor might be corrupted. I can't get it to play a special effect at a point. I made a test map and nothing...

• test
  • Events
    • Player - Player 7 (Green) Presses the Up Arrow key
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Position of Blood Mage 0000 <gen>) using Abilities\Spells\NightElf\BattleRoar\RoarCaster.mdl
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: test

When I press the up arrow key, it says "test" but no special effect appears. I've tried different special effects but none of them work. When I make a special effect attached to that unit it does work.

Should I reinstall or is there something I don't know?

Bug Map: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin_data/qvpszp/_files/test bug.w3x

 

[Noobsmoke]

I think the problem is that you are running as player 1 and the trigger is for player 7. There are no issues with your WE.

 

[darwin]

I set it to player 7 I believe. After all, the trigger IS firing, the word "test" appears.

Oddly, I've restarted my computer and it now appears to work. Has anything like this happened to someone else? I noticed it when I tried to debug a spell and the special effect wouldn't show up. I suppose it doesn't matter.

 

[defskull]

How can a host be Player 7 if the map is tested from World Editor ?
Strange enough.

If you're testing this via normal Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne, you can change slot to Player 7.

 

[Meticulous]

How can a host be Player 7 if the map is tested from World Editor ?
Strange enough.

If you're testing this via normal Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne, you can change slot to Player 7.

By closing the first 6 slots.

 

[darwin]

By closing the first 6 slots.

That's what I did, but oddly the hero's color was still red for some reason.

 

[Arhowk]

you probably hit a hotkey to lower graphical settings which removed trigger-made SFXes and restarting wc3 undos that

 

[darwin]

you probably hit a hotkey to lower graphical settings which removed trigger-made SFXes and restarting wc3 undos that

Oh wow, that is smart! I had absolutely no idea what it could possibly be, but that does make some sense.