Site Operation (Forward Vector) (Actor)
Site Operation (Forward Vector)
(Editor Screenshot) needs picture of hellion beam
Description
A site operation that makes the actor that has it in the Site Operations field face the direction of a specific actor or relative to the global map grid
Hint
- Capable of creating custom animations if used to face an attachment point that moves with scale changes
- Can cause models to invert along the axis parallel to that of rotation unless fixed using a Site Operation (Up Vector)
Example Usage
HellionAttackDamageSiteOpForward (Unnamed)
Ensures the Hellion Attack Damage Site actor faces towards the beam of the attack
URL
As the hellion and all it's attack actors are already in the editor, no URL is needed
Toss-A-Tron
Experimental project that uses forward vectors that face 0 opacity marine models which alter their scales to create a crude walk animation. As this is a work in progress, there can be several improvements made over the course of time
URL
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 - Forward
- Makes the actor always face a specific direction relative to the global map grid
- Leave as 0,0,0 for most purposes
Actor - Hold Position
- If enabled the actor with this SOp is locked in the position relative to the global map grid but turns to face the desired direction
- Useful for stationary abilities or structures that have parts which need to face a moving target
Actor - Hold Rotation
- If enabled the actor with this SOp is locked with it's rotation facing the direction of creation relative to the global map grid
Actor - Invert
- (Unknown)
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
- Apparently have no effect on SOps
Event - Macros
- The Event Macro actors used to supplement the events
Event - Remove - Send
- (Unknown)
Event - Remove - Target
- (Unknown)
Event - Remove - Terms
- (Unknown)
Event - Terms
- (Unknown)
Hosting - Host Forward - 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 Forward - Effect
- The effect whose scope is used in combination with the Hosting - Host Forward - Scope field to determine valid subjects
Hosting - Host Forward - Fail If No Host
- Causes the model to be automatically destroyed if no host
Hosting - Host Forward - 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 Forward - Subject
- Actor, alias or reference that this SOp causes actors with it to face
- Despite SOpRaynorSnipeBigBloodImpactLaunchGuide (Unnamed) using a reference in this field, It appears unable to have the target actor swapped on condition like tentacle attachments
- The target actor must exist before the creation of the actor with this SOp or it will face the lower left corner of the map
Hosting - Host Forward Site Operations - Hold Position
- If enabled the actor with this SOp is locked in the position relative to the global map grid but turns to face the desired direction
- Useful for stationary abilities or structures that have parts which need to face a moving target
Hosting - Host Forward Site Operations - Hold Rotation
- If enabled the actor with this SOp is locked with it's rotation facing the direction of creation relative to the global map grid
Hosting - Host Forward Site Operations - Operations
- SOps used to determine the exact direction of facing relative to the Hosting - Host Forward - Subject
- Usually a Site Operation (Attachment)
- If the faced attachment point moves due to a scale change, this SOp causes the actor with it to follow the attachment point which has potential for customized animations
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
