Immortal Turret

[LordXavier]

I am trying to get an immortal's turret to follow my mouse as seen at Blizzcon 2010 video here. I have no clue how this guy set this up.

I looked through all the triggers searching for "look" and "face" and there were some like "Make unit look at actor/point/unit" and "Make actor look at actor" but none of these worked. I tried making the unit face the mouse position, but that doesn't work as in my map you will be moving and aiming in different directions all the time.

Does anybody know how to make my immortal's turret look around?

None of the triggers that involve making a unit or actor 'look' at something are not working.
I have an invisible unit (which I made visible for testing to verify that he is moving with my cursor), but I don't know how to get the immortal to follow him.

 

[Siretu]

I think he made an attack with two plasma balls that goes forward until they hit something. Then they just tell the immortal to attack an invisible invulnerable unit. You could probably the disable the weapon by default and enable it when they user presses a key to fire.

 

[LordXavier]

the problem is how do i get it to constantly aim where my mouse is? make it's attack invisible and have it attack an invisible unit?

 

[Siretu]

Something like this?:

• Untitled Trigger 002
  • Events
    • UI - Player Any Player moves mouse.
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Move (Triggering unit) instantly to (Point((Mouse X position in the world), (Mouse Y position in the world))) (No Blend)

 

[LordXavier]

The problem is when an immortal move it faces the direction it is moving and cannot attack. In the video not only is it NOT facing the direction it moves, but its body isn't rotating, which makes me think the body and turret are not the same unit.

 

[Siretu]

I think its the same principle as rotating only the siege tank turret. I saw that you asked this on sc2mapster. Go There and search for siege tank turret. I recall seeing a thread about that over there.