Unholy Aura

[HydraRancher]

I'm using a variation of Unholy Aura with a new model on it for one of my buildings. It works perfectly on a guard tower, but the tower I'm using is too fat, and the whole aura is hidden. The Scaling Value must be (and is) 0.75.

Is there a way to get the Model larger without using triggers to manually place the aura?

 

[HeX.16]

Make a doodad with the effect model and place it?

 

[Weep]

Edit the model and import the new version?

 

[HydraRancher]

Sorry, I don't understand either of those solutions. The model is downloaded, so I probably won't edit it, and pre-placing is not available, because it's not a pre-placed building.

 

[Carnerox]

He probably means when the building is created to create the effect at the position of the building.

 

[HydraRancher]

He probably means when the building is created to create the effect at the position of the building.

Is there a way to get the Model larger without using triggers to manually place the aura?

Also, I'd need to use Hashtables/Custom Value to insure that the special effect is removed upon the buildings death.

 

[Carnerox]

Also, I'd need to use Hashtables/Custom Value to insure that the special effect is removed upon the buildings death.

I guess.

 

[Menelaus]

Also, I'd need to use Hashtables/Custom Value to insure that the special effect is removed upon the buildings death.

Or destroy doodads within a certain range around the tower?

 

[denmax]

A simple answer can be made from your question, though still I am unsure if it is true.

There is no way for one to change the size of the special effects that will not base itself on the scale value of it's target. One of the only ways to do so is to not attach the special effect on the tower itself, but rather to (at least) create a unit or doodad with the model of the special effect, and will be created through a trigger when the building is made.

I'm sorry to say that though :<
WorldEdit sometimes pisses us of, eheheh x_x

 

[HydraRancher]

A simple answer can be made from your question, though still I am unsure if it is true.

There is no way for one to change the size of the special effects that will not base itself on the scale value of it's target. One of the only ways to do so is to not attach the special effect on the tower itself, but rather to (at least) create a unit or doodad with the model of the special effect, and will be created through a trigger when the building is made.

I'm sorry to say that though :<
WorldEdit sometimes pisses us of, eheheh x_x

That isn't very simple, because you would still require triggers and dummies and hashtables. So you could have just said "No it's impossible to 'get the Model larger without using triggers to manually place the aura'" .

 

[Dirac]

Create a dummy using vexorian's dummy model at the towers position, add the aura to it and adjust it's scale to rezise the aura. Upon the tower's death pick every dummy within 50 of the tower, i think this cant cause any bugs since the tower itself has collision and no units can enter inside its collision range except for the dummy

 

[SanKakU]

i don't know about that, hydrarancher, from what i could tell, he was giving you a decent ammount of information, especially compared to the other posters, and also using dummies is a rather basic mapping thing.

 

[FhelZone]

As far as I know auras that are attached to units follow the scaling value. Though if you go for a dummy aura it would take simple triggers. Since its a tower, it is immobile so all you need to do is detect when a structure's building process is started and create an aura dummy on its position (which has no collision), you could just adjust the event if you want the aura to appear when the construction is done. When the tower dies, just pick every dummy aura within 50 range of the tower and remove it, after all the tower should have the aura below it all the time since its immobile and other towers can't be built on it.

 

[HydraRancher]

As far as I know auras that are attached to units follow the scaling value. Though if you go for a dummy aura it would take simple triggers. Since its a tower, it is immobile so all you need to do is detect when a structure's building process is started and create an aura dummy on its position (which has no collision), you could just adjust the event if you want the aura to appear when the construction is done. When the tower dies, just pick every dummy aura within 50 range of the tower and remove it, after all the tower should have the aura below it all the time since its immobile and other towers can't be built on it.

Yeah I just used a hashtable and triggers to add the effect. Check the Tower Contest thread, my tower is there, you can see what I did if you want.

 

[Bogrim]

For future requests like these, you may want to consider signing up on this forum as they often take small model requests like increasing the scaling value of an existing aura model would have been.

 

[HydraRancher]

For future requests like these, you may want to consider signing up on this forum as they often take small model requests like increasing the scaling value of an existing aura model would have been.

Cool, thanks. +rep.