Terrain and Special Effects Snippets

[zll7]

Very easy trigger...but can be very useful. And it makes every game with the same map a little diffrent

Spawn Trees
    Events
        Time - Every X seconds of game time
    Conditions
    Actions
        Destructible - Create a Summer Tree Wall at (Random point in (Playable map area)) facing (Random angle) with scale 1.00 and variation 0

stop trees
    Events
        Time - Elapsed game time is x seconds
    Conditions
    Actions
        Trigger - Turn off Spawn Trees <gen>

 

[Shadowy Fear]

If you have a volcano, hell, or some other fire related area in your map, and want to give it some ambience, create a region over it and do:

E: every (interger A) seconds
C: N/A
A: create special effect at random point in region using flame strike

This trigger creates a flame effect over a point, to simulate a fiery burst of ... fire . You could alternately pick a random point, and then set that point to a point variable, and THEN damage all units around it. Or just have a dummy unit cast a spell there. Your choice . Another option is to mess with the art, to create blizzards and lightning storms

 

[xPheRe]

Random weather

I read a while ago about someone needing random weather stuff.
I finally found how to do it, it's only a beggining but it does the work.

For this uses, the map has four variables:

Weather - Current weather (0=Sunny, 1=Cloudy, 2=Rainy, 3=Lightning)
mmHg - Current air preasure
mmHgvector - This value adds to the mmHg every second
mmHginc - This value adds to the mmHgvector every second, then recalculates itself by adding some random values

I hope it could be useful for anyone

 

[Andrewgosu]

A few simple functions - timed special effects.

function AddSpecialEffectTimed takes string modelName, real x, real y, real duration returns nothing
    local effect e = AddSpecialEffect( modelName, x, y )
    
    call PolledWait(duration)
    call DestroyEffect(e)
    set e = null
endfunction

function AddSpecialEffectLocTimed takes string modelName, location whichLoc, real duration returns nothing
    local effect e = AddSpecialEffectLoc( modelName, whichLoc )
    
    call PolledWait(duration)
    call DestroyEffect(e)
    set e = null
endfunction

function AddSpecialEffectTargetTimed takes string modelName, widget targetWidget, string attachPointName, real duration returns nothing
    local effect e = AddSpecialEffectTarget( modelName, targetWidget, attachPointName )
    
    call PolledWait(duration)
    call DestroyEffect(e)
    set e = null
endfunction