Darkness and Visibility

[BloodReaver]

First of all how can I put some places completly black (not the minimap the terrain)

And second how do you stop ppl from having visiblity of something?
-i have tried the "visibility blocker" doodad but it dosnt work

any help would be nice

 

[Exide]

You fix it with triggers.
There's a trigger function called 'Visibility', I believe.
You apply this to regions, so create a region that you want black and then add a trigger to it, something similiar to:

'Visibility - Create Fog of War across Region X'
'Visibility - Enable last created Visibility modifier'

Don't have WE open, so it's not 100% correct, but I hope you get the idea.

 

[darkRae]

If you do that, units can still reveal areas due to Line of Sight, though.

If you want to make complete darkness, make completely dark black fog.

 

[BloodReaver]

Im a lil confused. Which one are you talking about?

 

[darkRae]

If you create Fog of War for the entire map, the units will simply reveal them again. So if you don't want it to happen, create fog instead.

 

[BloodReaver]

LOL, OK I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT! =P
can somone take me step by step please? ={

 

[AoW_Hun7312]

He means something like this.

Test
    Events
        Map initialization
    Conditions
    Actions
        Player Group - Pick every player in (All players) and do (Actions)
            Loop - Actions
                Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for (Picked player) emitting Black mask across (Playable map area)

 

[BloodReaver]

Yea I think so lemme try it

 

[KiD-X]

im pretty sure that wont work, because if a player unit is within the mask its circle of vision will reveal the area anyhow. What the other guy was saying is create a black fog that is too dense to see through using the environment action.

    Actions
        Environment - Set fog to style Linear, z-start 1000.00, z-end 8000.00, density 100.00 and color (0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%)

you set up where u want it to cover yourself, alter the density to make it as heavy as it needs to be and set the colour to 0, 0, 0 so that it is black. Thats what he means

 

[Prediter[BuB]

You could try something that creates fog of war then make it renew it like every .000001 secs of game that might work for you. I cant find my CD atm so i cant get exact trigger.

 

[BloodReaver]

KiD-X can you explain what z-start and z-end do? I dont like to coppy it I prefer if I understand.

 

[KiD-X]

scrap that idea blood raven. I just tryed it out for you and it wont work for what you want, it covers the entire map in black. Just for your information though, Im pretty sure "Z" refers to the Z axis (like when you look at a 3d model it has 3 axis X,Y and Z). So where it says "Z start" that is the height the fog will start at, and "Z stop" is the hieght that it will finish at.