Unit only visible in fog of war

[sethmachine]

Hi,

Is there a way to make a building only "visible" in the fog of war? That is when players are actually in vision, they see nothing. But when they move out of vision, the building's model will appear in the fog of war (imagine a mirage or something like that). Preferably would like this possible without triggers...

 

[Adiktuz]

Preferably would like this possible without triggers...

I don't think so... since there's nothing in the OE about that...

 

[LordDz]

Yes triggers will be needed.

[Event]Every X amounts of seconds.

[Actions]Check distance between your units and the building.
If distance <= unit visibility range:
set hideBuilding = true;

if hideBuilding
hide Building
else
unhide Building

 

[sethmachine]

What if a building is invisible? Won't it still show up on the fog of war?

 

[Adiktuz]

AFAIK, his trigger does what you want, it hides a building when it gets in your "visibility range"...

 

[Cokemonkey11]

hiding units doesn't make them transparent, it makes them completely hidden including their health bar etc. Doing this to units with locust ability will cause poblems.

 

[LordDz]

But he didn't want them to become transparent, he wanted to hide them..
And it's for a building or unit in the fog of war, and buildings and units in the fog of war are unselectable by default, so there is no need to add locust to them.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

But he didn't want them to become transparent, he wanted to hide them..

Precisely. That's why I responded to his query

What if a building is invisible? Won't it still show up on the fog of war?

And it's for a building or unit in the fog of war, and buildings and units in the fog of war are unselectable by default, so there is no need to add locust to them.

It was a warning regarding ShowUnit() in general.

 

[Acutesharpness]

It will be awkard to hide a player's unit using hide units cause the player themself cant see their own unit.

WELL unless its single player

 

[Adiktuz]

in that case, I think you can actually hide a unit locally using a GetLocalPlayer() block

 

[Acutesharpness]

Wouldnt that crash the whole game? ;O

 

[Adiktuz]

I think hiding and showing a unit locally doesn't... I haven't tested though...

 

[RandomUser]

If building has Ghost ability it will be invisible when you approach to it, but you can see it in the fog of war. Only if your unit don't have True Sight, of course.

 

[sethmachine]

Adding Ghost worked perfectly! I was really hoping such a solution existed. Thank you!