Destroying special effects

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[Flare]

Waits don't work in UG loops (or player group loops).

What special effect are you using? Some effects can be destroyed immediately, but the effect will still appear as it should

 

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[YourFace]

Well you can destroy it but that won't actually stop the special effect from appearing (in many cases)

 

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[darkbeer]

events: skip
conditions: skip
set EffectCount = 0
Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units of type Footman) and do (Actions)
    Loop - Actions <--- AVOID LOOP thx
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (ElseActions)
            If - Conditions
                (Unit-type of (picked unit)) Equal to Footman
            Then - Actions
                Set EffectCount = EffectCount + 1
                Special Effect - Create special effect (Picked unit) "effect"
                set Effect[EffectCount] = Last created special effect
            Else - Actions
Wait 1.00 seconds
For each integerA from 1 to EffectCount do Actions 
     Loop -Actions 
          Special Effect - Destroy Effect[integerA]

not MUI

 

[YourFace]

yeah like flare said, when you're picking units/players a wait will unpick the units/ anything you're picking

so you can't actually wait one second

try creating 2 loops
one creating and one destroying
put the wait between there

 

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[Exide]

Problem:
Its picking every "unit" meaning more than 1 so also creating multiple effects
Its an effect that still appears on the map until it is destroyed, such as trigger "destroy - special effect"
Destroy special effect <---- Only destroys 1 of the effects
What to fix: How do can I make this so it destroys all effects for all picked units?

Solution:
Add this trigger:

Special Effect Destruction
    Events
    Conditions
    Actions
        Custom script:   local effect tempEffect
        Custom script:   set tempEffect = udg_SpecialFX
        Custom script:   call PolledWait( 5.00 )
        Custom script:   set udg_SpecialFX = tempEffect
        Custom script:   call DestroyEffect( udg_SpecialFX )

This trigger needs a variable called SpecialFX of the type Special Effect.

If you prefer it in JASS: (It matters not.)

Spoiler

function Trig_Special_Effect_Destruction_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
    local effect tempEffect
    set tempEffect = udg_SpecialFX
    call PolledWait( 5.00 )
    set udg_SpecialFX = tempEffect
    call DestroyEffect( udg_SpecialFX )
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_Special_Effect_Destruction takes nothing returns nothing
    local trigger gg_trg_Special_Effect_Destruction = CreateTrigger(  )
    call DisableTrigger( gg_trg_Special_Effect_Destruction )
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Special_Effect_Destruction, function Trig_Special_Effect_Destruction_Actions )
endfunction

Then simply add these two lines when you are using a special effect:

!example trigger!
events: skip
conditions: skip
set EffectCount = 0
Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units of type Footman) and do (Actions)
    Loop - Actions <--- AVOID LOOP thx
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (ElseActions)
            If - Conditions
                (Unit-type of (picked unit)) Equal to Footman
            Then - Actions
                Special Effect - Create special effect (Picked unit) "effect"
                [COLOR="Red"]Set SpecialFX = (Last created special effect)
                Trigger - Run Special Effect Destruction <gen> (ignoring conditions)[/COLOR]
            Else - Actions

And there you go!

 

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[BlackRose]

Show the trigger?