How To Get The Height Of A Unit's Chest

[WolfieeifloW]

I'm using lightning effects and need to make the effect attach to the unit's chest.
I'm using this:

call MoveLightningEx(d.l, true, d.cx, d.cy, 75., d.tx, d.ty, 75.)

But that obviously won't work for all units since their size changes.
I need to find the "Z" for a unit's chest;
Is this possible?

EDIT: The native:

native MoveLightningEx takes lightning whichBolt, boolean checkVisibility, real x1, real y1, real z1, real x2, real y2, real z2 returns boolean

 

[Darthfett]

Other than going and looking at all the model information, I don't see how. It's different for every unit, some don't even have chests. There is no GetUnitBodyPartZ.

Of course there's always estimating based on the unit's Z position, but no way of actually getting the value.

 

[Romek]

Use a rough guess.
GetUnitFlyHeight + ~75 will work for most units.

 

[WolfieeifloW]

Alrighty.
That'll work I guess.
Just use "+ GLOBALVAR" .

Someone should make someway to get a Z for certain things.
-looks at Jesus4Lyf and/or Vexorian-

 

[Romek]

> Someone should make someway to get a Z for certain things.
GetUnitFlyHeight does that.

Getting a units chest would require attaching values to unit IDs, probably using Table.
It's easy to do, but it'd be very, very boring and time-consuming.

 

[WolfieeifloW]

How do I change where it appears for left and right?
Change the "X" value, right?

 

[Romek]

> Change the "X" value, right?
And Y Value.

 

[Rainther]

left and right as in west and east is X, yes.

up and down, or north and south is Y.

 

[Jesus4Lyf]

Someone should make someway to get a Z for certain things.
-looks at Jesus4Lyf and/or Vexorian-

Actually, I was thinking about this the other day, and realised... there is a way to get it.

Which I haven't tried.

Make a doodad with the model you want the height for, and then set it to walkable, and create one get the terrain Z. Remove the doodad, get the terrain Z again. Then you know the height of the unit... (and of course could do this for its different animations? )

I was originally gonna make a spell which would rain down particles on units and have them bounce off their limbs and everything at the correct angles. Then I realised... why the hell would I do that? XD

I'd use a constant for this too, probably. :thup:

PS. I don't think you could use this method dynamically, for any unit, however. <_<

 

[DonRoman]

Save the chest z values for specific unit types (which are by far too big or small) in a table and for the rest use a constant value xD

Take care when using CreateLightningEx you got to take into consideration the terrain height, so it would be: GetLocationZ(loc) + GetUnitFlyHeight(unit) + ~ 75

 

[GetTriggerUnit-]

Yea, when creating unit, make 3 categories: small : medium : big.

Then use the "Point Value" 1, small : 2, medium : 3, big.
Then when attaching it, you can know if unit is small, medium of big, by asking it point value

**Point value are like custom values, unless you can't change them by triggers and it's set in the object editor. And obviously it won't bug because it's not a custom value.

 

[Viikuna]

You should use Table to attach stuff to unit types, like Romek suggested.

Its usually good to know stuff like, units collinsion size, base armor, attackspeed, damage point, attack damage, primary attribute. ( If it is a hero )

 

[WolfieeifloW]

Make a doodad with the model you want the height for, and then set it to walkable, and create one get the terrain Z. Remove the doodad, get the terrain Z again. Then you know the height of the unit... (and of course could do this for its different animations? )

Huh ?
I think I get it, but how would you get his chest ?

I was originally gonna make a spell which would rain down particles on units and have them bounce off their limbs and everything at the correct angles. Then I realised... why the hell would I do that? XD

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Anyways, the finished spell, which uses this, can be seen here.