Speculate How This Spell Was Made

[SmitingDevil]

Linky

 

[rulerofiron99]

Camera height increased to 5000, the rest is anime spell as usual.

 

[Wietlol]

Camera indeed to a value where fog covers the field... I can imagine that 5000 is not enough in some cases but it should work on normal maps.

Give units crow form and set their height to... a lot and attach some special effects to them.
Maybe make some locusted units and attach the effects on those if you want to be able to rotate/move the units.

 

[rulerofiron99]

Pretty sure dummy units were used. It would look odd for other players if they see two characters disappear from the map.

The purpose of the camera height is not to have fog cover the map, but to be high enough that the camera's far z is too low to display the terrain. You're probably right, 5000 is too low.

 

[Dat-C3]

The camera height is negative and your angle of view is faced upwards. The rest is just animation and common effect models you'd find on chaosrealm like most anime spells. Cool version of it though.