Event Macro (Actor)
Event Macro
Description
Actor that is inserted into the Event - Macros field of other actors to supplement their Event - Events+ fields. Also allows easy referencing of additional actor groups via supporters
Hint
- Commonly used for giving actors certain complex responses via several events that would be too time consuming to apply to each actor's events individually
Example Usage
Unpowered Anim
The Event Macro actor used by most protoss structures when unpowered alter their animations and colour. Also reverses these changes when they are no longer unpowered. Contains a massive 33 different events in it (Imagine having to repeat those for each power using actor).
URL
As the Unpowered Anim Event Macro and all actors that use it are alrady in the editor, no URL is needed
Carry Anim
The Event Macro actor used by the actors of all workers to determine what animations they play when they have a buff applied by the Behavior - Carry Resource Behavior field of resources.
URL
As the Carry Anim Event Macro and all actors that use it are alrady in the editor, no URL is needed
Fields Description
Actor - Aliases
- Aliases that refer to the actor in Events or in Hosting as a subject
Actor - Filter
- Determines what players can see the actor depending on their diplomatic status eg. Nuke Target/Indicator
- Pointless as this actor has no visuals
Actor - Flags
- Add To External Finder (Unknown)
- Not Saved (Unknown) used by all tempory Model actors
- Scale To Host overides any scaling the actor has and sets it to the host Unit actor
- Suppress Creation Errors (Unknown)
Actor - Fog Visibility
- Determines how the actor appears under the fog of war
- Not sure how it interacts with the UI - Fog Visibility under the Units data type
- Pointless as this actor has no visuals
Actor - Sharing
- Determines to what degree the same actor is shared by a unit if there are multiple functions refering to it
- Always means the actor is always shared
- None means the actor is never shared
- Per Effect Tree means that effects within an effect tree share the actor but different effect trees can't
Event - Events+
- Series of minitriggers that determine the motions and visual effects of the model
- Covered in detail in the Events+ section of the wiki
Event - Macros
- The Event Macro actors used to supplement the events
- Why there is the option for event macros within event macros is beyond me
Event - Remove - Send
- (Unknown)
Event - Remove - Target
- (Unknown)
Event - Remove - Terms
- (Unknown)
Event - Terms
- (Unknown)
Hosting - Host Supporter - Actor
- Actor Find (Not Sure) means the actor has to be found using the scope
- Creation (Not Sure) is the actor that creates this actor is given priority for hosting if there is a choice of several
- Implicit is the default
Hosting - Host Supporter - Effect
- The effect whose scope is used in combination with the Hosting - Host Supporter - Scope field to determine valid subjects
Hosting - Host Supporter - Fail If No Host
- Causes the model to be automatically destroyed if no host
Hosting - Host Supporter - Scope
- Implicit is the default but gives an error message if using the scope of an effect
- Scope Caster: (Unsure) Uses the scope of the caster of the effect to choose the caster unit as the subject
- Scope Effect (Unknown)
- Scope Missile (Unknown)
- Scope Outer (Unknown)
- Scope Source (Unknown) Uses the scope of the source of the effect to choose the source unit as the subject
- Scope Target (Unknown) Uses the scope of the target of the effect to choose the target unit as the subject
Hosting - Host Supporter - Subject
- Actor, alias or reference refered to by the ::Supporter system reference for Events+
Properties - Accepted Property Transfers
- When this actor is in the Hosting - Host - Subject field of another actor, this field determines what properties are able to be inherited from this actor
- As this actor has no visuals this field is pointless
- Cast Shadows allows the attached actor to cast shadows
- Cloak Effect allows the attached actor to show the cloaking bluish effect
- Decal allows the attached actor to show the host unit decal
- Local Tint Color (Unknown)
- Model Scale makes the actor inherit the scale for the host model
- Opacity spreads the opacity set by the Set Opacity event to attached actors
- Physics State (Unknown)
- Scale transfers the scale of the host actor to the attached actors
- Team Color makes the attached actor show the team colour if it can
- Time Scale means the animations of the attached actor are the same as the host actors timescale
- Tint Color (Unknown)
- Visibility allows the attached actor to share the host actor's Actor - Fog Visibility
- Warp Group (Unknown)
Properties - Accepted Transfers
As this actor has no visuals this field is pointless
- Animation Properties (Unknown)
- Animator (Unknown)
- Fog Of War Color (Unknown)
- Fog Of War Shader (Unknown)
- Model (Unknown)
- Position (Unknown)
- Rotation (Unknown)
- Status (Unknown)
- Textures (Unknown)
Properties - Inherit Type
As this actor has no visuals this field is pointless
- Determines how often the host properties are inherited
- Continuous means the properties are continuously inherited from the host
- None means properties are not inherited from the host
- Once means properties are only inherited on actor creation
Properties - Inherited Properties
- This field determines what properties are able to be inherited from the actor in the Hosting - Host - Subject or Hosting - Host For Properties - Subject
field
- Cast Shadows allows the attached actor to cast shadows
- Cloak Effect allows the attached actor to show the cloaking bluish effect
- Decal allows the attached actor to show the host unit decal
- Local Tint Color (Unknown)
- Model Scale makes the actor inherit the scale for the host model
- Opacity spreads the opacity set by the Set Opacity event to attached actors
- Physics State (Unknown)
- Scale transfers the scale of the host actor to the attached actors
- Team Color makes the attached actor show the team colour if it can
- Time Scale means the animations of the attached actor are the same as the host actors timescale
- Tint Color (Unknown)
- Visibility allows the attached actor to share the host actor's Actor - Fog Visibility
- Warp Group (Unknown)
- As this actor has no visuals this field is pointless
Related
Needs link to Events+
