Invisible Lightning Effects?

[Jonnycakes]

Hi, I am working on a tripwire spell and need a visual for, well, the tripwire. Lightning effects would be great, but I want my tripwire to be invisible(like stasis traps, goblin land mines, etc.) Is there a way to make lightning effects invisible?

 

[Viikuna]

You can make your own lightning effect textures and edit lightning behaviour by importing a custom lightningdata.slk, so you could indeed make a nice looking tripwire with lightnings.

Lightning color can be safely edited locally, so you could just use [lJASS]GetLocalPlayer()[/lJASS] and make only your allies to see the tripwire and make it invisible to enemies.

( You could even make it have the more alpha the closer enemy hero is to it, which might also be pretty cool. )


So yes, its possible.

It goes pretty muchly like this:

 if IsUnitAlly( myUnit, GetLocalPlayer() ) then
    set alpha=1.
else
    set alpha=0.
endif
call SetLightningColor( myLightning,r,g,b,alpha)

 

[Jonnycakes]

Hmmm...that helps a lot! I suppose I can add a dummy unit to the middle of the wire and check if it is visible to enemies (to decide whether they can see the wire with true sight or not). Time for coding-wish me luck! (and +rep for you, of course )