Swarm of ravens - summoned unit

[Kamulec]

I want to make an ability of summon the reconnaissance unit (which cannot attack) with the appearance of a swarm of ravens (like a swarm of locusts).

How to make:
- summoned unit will be in raven's form or invisible (but swarm will be visible)
- flying units will be in raven's form

I ask for a quick help. I want to publish next version of my map this week.

 

[Ramza]

What summoned unit? Which flying units? Why should the summoned unit (?) be invisible or Raven form? Do you mean the ability Raven form, or the model of a raven?

I don't really get the question. Just give the units Raven Form and order them to use it with triggers?

It's all pretty confusing (to me at least). :I

 

[Adiktuz]

do you mean you want a leader raven and then other ravens will be flying around it just like how Locust swarm move around the caster?

if so then just make a 2 custom models, both using the hawk model or whatever raven model you want, one will have the locust ability (also since you want it to not be able to attack, just set Attacks enabled to none, I will call this unit as swarm) while the other will be the "leader" raven (if you want it to be invisible just use none.mdl or if you have dummy.mdl then use it) and will have a custom locust swarm skill that you will make... make a custom spell based on locust swarm and use the swarm unit as the units summoned, modify the other fields as you want, dmage threshold will be useless since they cannot attack but do not set it to 0.00, then add this spell to the leader raven... then just create the leader raven and order it to use the custom locust swarm ability...

 

[Prince.Zero]

maybe he wants multiple units that cast the locust ability
or dunno maybe im just too confused or dumb to understand any of this

 

[defskull]

From what I understood is, a spell that will summons up a Raven, that is invisible, only to use as recon mission, that will lead a swarm of "something" that follows up around the Raven.
Is it ?

 

[Kamulec]

From what I understood is, a spell that will summons up a Raven, that is invisible, only to use as recon mission, that will lead a swarm of "something" that follows up around the Raven.

Yes. I want to add to Saruman an ability of summoning a "cloud" of spying ravens and I want to base it on the swarm of locusts ability.

Does anyone know path to the model of raven?

 

[Ramza]

Well, the problem is that the Raven is not an actual model, but an animation.

But check this custom Raven model out.

 

[Kamulec]

Thanks.

I can use it however - anyone know other way to do this (I am talking about Middle Earth Risk - it has already 4 MB so making it bigger is not the best way).

 

[Adiktuz]

Thanks.

I can use it however - anyone know other way to do this (I am talking about Middle Earth Risk - it has already 4 MB so making it bigger is not the best way).

if you can, try using the hawk model... maybe you can just color it a little black via the object editor to make it look like a raven...

 

[Ramza]

The custom Raven model is 60 kb! :I
I really don't see why you wouldn't use it. Maybe delete some music file instead, which are 500-5000 kb.

 

[Adiktuz]

The custom Raven model is 60 kb! :I
I really don't see why you wouldn't use it. Maybe delete some music file instead, which are 500-5000 kb.

yeah, and file size limit is already at 8mb so you're just at half... but I know a better one...

use Medivh model and on the object editor find the line "Required animation names" and put a string there which says "alternate" (I think all normal blizzard alternate models use the alternate animation tag, I cant check right now)... doing this would save you file size and will make the medivh model use all of its alternate(raven form) animations...

 

[Kamulec]

The custom Raven model is 60 kb! :I
I really don't see why you wouldn't use it. Maybe delete some music file instead, which are 500-5000 kb.

I've used this custom raven. I don't use music files. It's just the game placed in Middle Earth realm so I need a lot of custom models and want to save as much weight as possible.

use Medivh model and on the object editor find the line "Required animation names" and put a string there which says "alternate" (I think all normal blizzard alternate models use the alternate animation tag, I cant check right now)... doing this would save you file size and will make the medivh model use all of its alternate(raven form) animations...

I've tried it before, it doesn't work.

 

[Adiktuz]

I've used this custom raven. I don't use music files. It's just the game placed in Middle Earth realm so I need a lot of custom models and want to save as much weight as possible.


I've tried it before, it doesn't work.

it works for me... maybe you just placed the string in the wrong place?

make sure that its placed in the Required Animations names...

if really does not work for you, you can just use hawk model then recolor...

 

[Kamulec]

it works for me... maybe you just placed the string in the wrong place?

make sure that its placed in the Required Animations names...

if really does not work for you, you can just use hawk model then recolor...

I had copied strings from morphed druid of talons so it couldn't be in a wrong place. It doesn't work for swarm.
Hawks looks totally different from ravens so I'm not going to use them.

Thanks for help everybody. If you have no other ideas I will just use this custom model.