Starfall effect not changing

[LittleBigApple]

Hi all
I am making a simple Starfall spell where the buff is changed such that the starfall missiles are recplaced by Rain of Fire missiles. However, with the new buff (which has the new Rain of Fire effect added), the effect of Starfall will not change. Am I missing something simple?

 

[DoomBlade]

Unfortunately some of the things in warcraft 3 are hard coded, including the startfall effect.

If you want to change the effect you need to edit the effect of the original spell.

 

[LittleBigApple]

Ah I see. Thanks for the quick reply

 

[Cheshire]

Unfortunately some of the things in warcraft 3 are hard coded, including the startfall effect.

If you want to change the effect you need to edit the effect of the original spell.

you mean overwrite the model?

 

[DoomBlade]

you mean overwrite the model?

IIRC it's enough that you just modify the art of the original spell.

 

[Cheshire]

weird. like for all other spells it creates a copy, but here it's just a reference. blizzard hardcoding is just one of those universal enigmas.

 

[LittleBigApple]

Yeah indeed. I was introducing WE to my friend, and I found it a bit hard due to the many quirks and tricks you have to know.

 

[Elprede]

I believe this hardcoding was recently introduced in Reforged. I just tested a custom spell based on Starfall on patch 1.31, and this was not the case on that patch.

 

[Elprede]

I did some testing, and you do have to edit the effect of the original spell. By that, I mean you need to go to the Buffs/Effects sub menu under Object Editor and edit the effect there. The catch is that this will affect all custom versions of Starfall. This is a huge bummer because changing the buff and effects of this spell no longer does anything.

Why was this introduced in Reforged all of a sudden? Perhaps, this is just one mishap of many along the way and it was never meant to be. This could mean there are other spells affected in Reforged.

@Kam

 

[Kam]

It’s a bug with the effect. There were others that were fixed in the beta, this one was missed.