Unit Skins Native [1.32]

[Daffa]

I wonder if anyone has bought it up before, cause apparently, this one is actually a potentially sick native for games that relies on deception and trickeries. I attached a sample map of what I have come up with so far with this new skin system.

I also wrote a Paste to show what I have uncovered during my tests, but it's pretty lacking so I'm sure there's a lot to explore here, like the 1.31 UI natives.

What it affects:

• Unit Soundset
• Unit Model
• Unit Damage Sounds (attack and attacked)
• Selection Scale

What it does not affects:

• HP and mana
• Projectile arc

Others:

• Unit changed into hero skin does not add hero skin abilities
• Selection scale uses previous skin scale
• Changing hero to unit skin pre-game will cause them to lose name in-game, but changing via runtime trigger does not

So, any thoughts, discoveries, or anything else regarding this?

A possible application I found so far: part of replication of RA Spy System

 

[Daffa]

Here is something I can concoct with this feature: [Mapping] - Replicating Red Alert Spy Disguise

I'm still certain there might be hidden quirks or something inside this that I have yet to be aware of. If anyone finds anything, do tell!

 

[Aldeia]

Here is something I can concoct with this feature: [Mapping] - Replicating Red Alert Spy Disguise

I'm still certain there might be hidden quirks or something inside this that I have yet to be aware of. If anyone finds anything, do tell!

There are few problems with this native.

• Units have no shadow when changing the skin
• Units will drop their skin after some abilties would be casted on them (example - Tornado/Impale) , and i belive there are more.

So i guess blizzard didnt take that into account...odd

 

[Daffa]

That's a new discovery. I think there's much more to study.

Indeed odd they fail to account for sone abilities.