Special Effects with GetLocalPlayer() ?

[Faust]

Since the only functions with Special effects I know of are DestroyEffect and CreateEffect, I suppose it's impossible, but I still need a workaround or something other ingenious.
I need to Hide/Destroy/Create (either of the three) special effects LOCALLY.
I can't really just replace them with dummy units, because many effects are attached to hands for example.

Please help me this is very important.

 

[Exide]

Not sure if I understand what you want.
I might've misunderstood you.

I made something similar:

function CreateEffectLP takes string whateffect, real x, real y, player p returns nothing
    if GetLocalPlayer() != p then
        set whateffect = ""
    endif
    call DestroyEffect(AddSpecialEffect(whateffect, x, y))
endfunction

Not sure if that's what you want, though.

 

[Faust]

What I want exactly, is to have a command that disables the triggering player's special effects.
I want to achieve that by adding the player to a group, and each time I create a special effect, have an if function to check if the GetLocalPlayer() is in the player group.
If the player is in the group remove or hide the effect (create would be nice too, I just put the if somewhere else).

The problem is, as I heard, creating or destroying things liek these increase/decrease handle count, which leads to server splits.

Does your code do that Exide? Because I can't test it in multiplayer right now :\

 

[Exide]

No, my code don't desync.

I have no idea how to pick the correct effects to destroy, though. Maybe you can attach them somehow to the correct player?

 

[Faust]

But your code shows teh effect to certain players, and not to the rest?

 

[Exide]

My code shows the effects to LocalPlayer only.

 

[Larcenist]

function AddSpecialEffectMod takes string path, real x, real y returns nothing
    if (IsPlayerInForce(GetLocalPlayer(), NoEffectForce) == true) then
        set path = ""
    endif

    call DestroyEffect(AddSpecialEffect(path, x, y))
endfunction

What Exide wrote works perfectly fine and doesn't desync at all, seeing as the effect is created for all computers, only the path is modified.

 

[saw792]

function AddSpecialEffectMod takes string path, real x, real y returns nothing
    local string s = ""
    if (IsPlayerInForce(GetLocalPlayer(), NoEffectForce) == true) then
        set path = ""
    endif
    call DestroyEffect(AddSpecialEffect(path, x, y))
endfunction

Just to be incredibly super-ultimately safe.

 

[Jesus4Lyf]

I actually tested that out, finally.

Declaring "" isn't needed, it happens already by default somewhere... I think it's string id #1, if my memory serves me well.

 

[saw792]

Yep, you're right, I just tested it myself. String id 0 returns null, string id 1 returns "".