Death Coil

[BRUTAL]

Is it possible to remove the effect death coil makes when it hits a target, like that green and black ballish effect. I've tried changing the effect to something else, but even then it seems to always be the death coil ball effect.
I thought it was possible to change that effect, is it?

 

[Komaqtion]

Which field do you change ?

You're supposed to change "Art - Special"

(Note: This works )

 

[jwallstone]

Change the Art - Special field.

 

[Kangaxx]

Um, i don't think it's possible to change the death coil ballish animation (just tested).
Your best shot is probably triggering a healing wave/chain lightning if you want the same effects.
At the above post: I've changed it and nothing happens. Though i'll try again.

 

[BRUTAL]

That one, and I have changed; but it still shows.
It's odd because I thought i figured out that it could be removed by replacing that effect, and I think it did work. But I don't exactly remember, plus this was before the patches if that could have effected anything.

 

[Komaqtion]

@ Kangaxx: Huh ?! I just tested it !
(Btw, it's the "explosion" when it hits that he means, I think )

@ BRUTAL: Well... I just tested it, and no "explosion" when it hits for me...

Btw, did you change it into something else, or simply remove it ?
Because I removed it ...

 

[BRUTAL]

Interesting.
I changed it, because simply removing it would not work. I just tried removing the effect and it did not work.

 

[Kangaxx]

I tried removing it AND changing it into something still nothing happened. Maybe it has something to deal with older versions? Since i haven't updated to 1.24b.

 

[Komaqtion]

Well... Maybe :S
You have Newgen ?

 

[Kangaxx]

I use built in WE lol.

 

[Komaqtion]

Hmm...
Well, I'm not sure if it's a Newgen thing, though I really don't think so, lol XD

Wierd.....

 

[TheCrystal]

It may have that 'Aura buff' thing with some people/spells/editor versions, where it doesn't show at first then shows later (in this case the effect would be gone) or just works as intended. As others have said, the best case is to use a different spell. Chain Lightning I use if I haven't already renamed it with something else with the same unit (Order ID problems, Channel is best for fixing that but it can get annoying).

 

[Tru_Power22]

Actually, I think storm bolt would work better.

 

[TheCrystal]

Storm bolt creates a stun effect that can not be nulled, setting it to 0 makes it last Infinitely due to Blizzard's Update. This can be set to .01, but it also nulls channeling spells as well as pause a unit in mid-attack animation which can mean everything in a battle.
Hence why Chain Lightning is better since Death Coil isn't working for him.

 

[black.sheep]

Try changing the special art of the death coil ability you based your custom spell on.

 

[TheCrystal]

That has already been suggested, please do not repost ideas other people have said.

 

[13lade619]

death coil special is hardcoded..

the only thing that solves this is:

remove the original field from the ORIGINAL death coil.
use triggers to do the effects on the custom one.

 

[TheCrystal]

Wait, are you saying the Missile causes the effect and the 'Special' is just some BS to mess with people?

 

[13lade619]

missile in death coil has no death animation, check the ability.
the swirly black stuff is caused by the 'special' field.

 

[TheCrystal]

You're saying the 'Special' is hardcoded though, so do you mean the Death Coil missile effect itself is causing the default Special to appear even though it isn't there? Am I able to assume that we can change these effects say to "Missile - Something.mdl" and "Special - none.mdl" and have it not show the death effect of the vanilla spell?