Orbiting Something Other Than Orbs Around Hero

[SkinnyAshley]

Okay...this is going to sound weird. One of the heroes in my map has a skill were he is orbited by chairs. In case anyone is wondering, he's based off somebody I know in real life that has a tendency to trip over chairs a lot. So I was wondering if it would be possible to do this? I thought about maybe using orbs (such as fire orb), but they only orbit the weapon. Something like Blood Mage's floating orbs is what I would preferably like...but with chairs. I don't even know, for instance, whether it is possible to use a doodad in this way.

Also, I may as well ask, would it be possible to change the models used in a stampede based spell to doodads (benches in this case)?

Thanks in advance.
-- SkinnyAshley

 

[Scary Nachos]

Hm... on the Blood mage, it has the spheres rotating around it, and it is in the Abbilities - Normal, so i think you can make one by going to abbilities and copying the abbility spheres and changing it around to your liking. Then add it to your hero

 

[SkinnyAshley]

Okay, well I just tried this (made a custom ability based on Sphere, and changed the model to Chair), but nothing appeared. Thanks anyway though, Nachos. Any other ideas?
-- SkinnyAshley

 

[X-maul]

well the ability Spheres is just a special effect, its just a permanent special effect attached to the hero, if you look at the ability you'll see that it got attachment points on sphere 1, sphere 2 and sphere 3.. and that 3 attachment point only the blood mage model got...

you could do it with triggers, though that i dont know how...

 

[swe_suffer]

If you look at the model, you will see that it is the model rotating (its atached to chest i think..) not a specific function or something.. So to make this you must create a custom animation for the chair model (export - if you are using the one from wc3) by using a modeling / animation software like blender (open source)... (..or maya etc if you are willing to pay a lot for it)

Edit: well - it looks like I wasn't realy to dug into this.. look above :Z

 

[SkinnyAshley]

Well this seems like a lot of work for a map that is just meant to be a bit of fun between me and my friends . Thanks for the help everyone, but I just don't see it being worth it.
-- SkinnyAshley