SC2Mapster

How would I come around making a missile get launched from the sky and hit the ground dealing damage (AoE damage)

I want to make it take 2 seconds to land, but that's the mover I guess.

I'm guessing you mean you want a missile to appear to just fall straight from the sky like a nuke? You'll just need to make a Create Persistent that creates the Launch Missile effect at an offset that is high up and make the launch missile launch from its target point to the target point of the persistent effect. You might also need to make it so that a pair of Site actors are created at the launch and impact points for the actor to properly function. For that check out how the site actor for the hellion attack is created.

@Spoolofwhool: Go

Hmm, I made the persistant, but I'm not very familiar with the create persistant effect. I made the missile launch effect, and I tried setting the periodic effect to 0,0,20 and make it launch a missile, but it launches from teh caster.

How do I make the missile launch from the 0,0,20 offset and go to 0,0,0 offset (both offset from target point)

NOTE: I did check out the hellion attack, but that does not explain much to me as far as I can see. I dont understand how it attaches to Site actor to the effect as a target point :/

EDIT: @Doubleclick123: Go OMG! you're right! D:

@Demtrod: Go

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So, for the Target - Launch Location use target point and for Target - Impact Location use target point with Target - Impact Location - Effect set to the persistent effect.

So, I'm not sure that the Action actor for the missile will work if you don't have a site actor for the launch and impact points, but it might. The reason I mentioned the hellion Site actor is because it is created at the location of an effect using SOp Target Point. Copying off of it, you can make a pair of Site actors that are created at the launch and impact points of the Launch Missile effect, that can then be used to control the actor although as I stated, I'm not sure if the site actors are necessary.

Hmmm - I cant seem to figure this out. I'm sorry for being a noob, I've never actually worked with the persistant effect :|

I did set the Target - Launch Location to target point, and the Target - Impact Location to target, and the effect to my persistant effect.

The Persistant Effect got it's Periodic Offset set to (0,0,20)(0,0,0), Initial effect set to my missile effect, and the Initial Offset set to (0,0,20).

The missile is launced from the target point, but it's from (0,0,0) to (0,0,0).

I cant figure out how to set up the site actor, as I've never used it before, could you please explain it step by step?

Is this what are you looking for? I posted this before long time ago in meteor shower topic. This shit works without action and site actors somehow ._.

@abvdzh: Go

I copied over your effect, and tried to set my persistants to the same as yours, but I couldnt get it to work. So I ended up just completely copying your spell, and modifying it from there :) thank you.

EDIT: I think I figured out what caused it. For some reason, I cant make a missile launch from a 0,0,Z offset, the X value has to be something else than 0.

If you make the mover have a 3d arrival test it works with an offset of 0,0,Z