Strange Actor Problem

[WanderingPeanut]

Basically I've duplicated the Medivac Heal ability, including the actors, sounds and models but when my unit uses the new ability no heal beam will appear but the visual effect and sound on the unit will appear. Unfortunately the sound and the effect do not go away after the ability is finished, whats gone wrong?

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i suggest that you use the original ability. that worked perfectly for me.

 

[WanderingPeanut]

Problem is I wanna have two heal abilities, different stats different units.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

you may be able to use script to change the stats of the ability for specific units.

 

[mrzwach]

Actor Events are probably messed up. Make sure they are all set correctly, chances are it isn't getting destroyed properly and the beam isn't getting created properly.

 

[WanderingPeanut]

The events seem to be fine, all the effects now point to the new ability. Also I'm not using a Medivac for the unit could that be the problem?

PS When the I have a unit using the original medic heal the beam for the second ability appears fine if I cast it one the same unit, wtf?

 

[mrzwach]

Hmm. Does it have anything else linked to the ability (ie sites, or any other kind of actor)? Try searching for medivac and seeing what pops up.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i believe that the problem lies in what things it is that gets duplicated. i will see if i find out more though.(at the moment i dont have exact information about what shouldnt be duplicated as part of the ability.) i cant figure it out. what i have figured out however is that the medivac is rather protected. (i cant even edit its actor due to it being unselectable. by that i mean that it gets deselected after it gets loaded.) i suggest that you either try to duplicate the queens healing ability or build a new ability from scratch. i am unable to help you further in this matter.

 

[Dr Super Good]

andreasaspenberg, you are sprouting nonsense. The medivac unit actor (the actor data for the unit and not its effects or any other actor for it) is perfectly selectable and editable in the data editor. Infact I was viewing it at the time this post was created.

What is most likly happening is your unit using the duplicate medivac ability is lacking vital event respones on its actor that the medivac has. As such it leaks cause the destructor is expecting something to happen that never does.

For the record I am talking about the ChannelStart And ChannelStop events the medivac actor has for when the heal beam ability is used. If your custom healing unit lacks those it is quite possible that the beam is not created properly and that the animation does not get deconstructed when the spell is finished.

Additionally there might be incorrect referencing in some of the other actor's events leading to the orignal medivac.

 

[WanderingPeanut]

Those are good points, I think I'll take a look at my healers actor. I thought my problem might be due to something on the units behalf, abilities duplicate easily most of the time.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i tried to select the medivac actor myself but the editor wouldnt let me keep it selected. the game will be released tomorrow so then the editor will most likely be better. as for the problem the original ability works fine on a custom unit. it is the duplicated ability that doesnt.