whats the risk with allowing negative numbers?

[alexmantor]

Theres an option in the editor that allow to put negative numbers but pop up a message about messing constants and stuff. Is that really dangerous?, cuz I need it to set negative flying height to make the units semi burried in ground.

 

[Obsidious]

It can only crash the game. nothing big, All that'll happen is you will encounter a "Critical error" or "internal error" and WC3 will crash. It's nothing, really. I'm using negative values a lot and quite frankly I haven't encountered a crash yet. So I assume it's safe. If it weren't safe (as in the consequences could mean deletion of files or some shit like that) then I don't think blizzard would've put it in the editor.
Hope this is enlightening enough! ^_^

 

[ap0calypse]

If it weren't safe (as in the consequences could mean deletion of files or some shit like that) then I don't think blizzard would've put it in the editor.

You can't just put negative values wherever you want, that's why Blizz put some kind of protection on it.
But yeah, aside from causing massive lag, breaking some aspect of the game or causing a crash, nothing can happen as far as I know .

Usually it's pretty safe and isn't much different from a positive value, so as long as you've got a specific goal in mind and the editor lets you do that by using negative values, it's all right.

 

[Derdan]

I've never tried to crash the map with negative values, but I assume you could by putting negative movement speed or by referencing negative player numbers. No big deal if the map crashes, since you would probably know what's causing it. Negative flying height is perfectly fine... I think you can actually put that without ticking that box.

 

[WaterKnight]

The editor can crash with invalid values too. For example if you scale a unit model too large or grant it a non-existing ubersplat.

 

[Rozll0rt]

I tried putting negative numbers on the editor but it doesn't work it stays at 0

 

[Kitabatake]

I tried putting negative numbers on the editor but it doesn't work it stays at 0

You'll need to shift+click the value field to be able to enter negative values.

 

[Obsidious]

Well of course if you intentionally make random shit negative values the map could crash - like why would you want to make a negative movement speed or scale value? I mean, If you're experimenting then I guess It's fine, but in practical it just doesn't make sense why one would want to do that P