SC2Mapster

hello there when building with my custom ability the metamorphism stages are shown but the unit itself is also there. any ideas?

Are you talking about the ability user not disappearing when the building is started and not being consumed when the building is completed? If so enable the Worker Hide and Worker Kill on Complete flags of the Build ability. If not, please be a bit more detailed with your problem. I'm not grasping it and the image provides little information without an explanation.

@Spoolofwhool: no, the worker shall not disappear. the building, which is built, shall show the building stages but without showing the complete building which it does. on the picture you see a custom model of a sunken colony + building stage of the spawnpool.

@Cacho56: it doesnt react to construction.finished event nor any other event i have tried.

yes i am certain. also doesnt work for sporecannon. i can set the opacity on construction.start to 0 and tell the build actor not to inherit from host but i cannot set it back or reset it again because it doesnt react to construction.finished. Update: i am using a timer now to set opacity back to normal but this is still a riddle. using the queen bui8ld ability doesn't create a construction.finished actor msg.

yes it has the buildable ability. test it yourself, add the sporecannon to the queen build ability. add the buttons and build it. it will throw an error because there is no model set on the sporecannonbuild actor but everything else is set. you will see, it wont work. (i have set the model to the pool building model)

i don't destroy any actor, how else do you orphan one? i have set a model and it doesnt throw any error.

<CAbilBuild id="QueenBuild2">
<EditorCategories value="Race:Zerg,AbilityorEffectType:Units"/>
<FlagArray index="PeonMaintained" value="0"/>
<FlagArray index="ShowProgress" value="1"/>
<Alert value="BuildComplete_Zerg"/>
<InfoArray index="Build1" Unit="CreepTumorQueen" Time="15">
<Resource index="Vespene" value="25"/>
<Vital index="Energy" value="15"/>
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructCreepTumor">
<Flags index="ShowInGlossary" value="1"/>
</Button>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build2" Unit="Extractor" Time="45">
<Vital index="Energy" value="25"/>
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild" TimeUse="60"/>
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructExtractor"/>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build3" Unit="SpineCrawler" Time="15">
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
\ <Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructSpineCrawler"/>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build4" Unit="SporeCrawler" Time="15">
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructSporeCrawler"/>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build5" Unit="HydraliskDen" Time="120">
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>´
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructHydraliskDen"/>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build6" Unit="GreaterSpire" Time="180">
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructSpire" Requirements="isBroodQueen"/>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build7" Unit="NydusNetwork" Time="60">
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructNydusNetwork"/>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build8" Unit="RoachWarren" Time="150">
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructRoachWarren"/>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build9" Unit="UltraliskCavern" Time="210">
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructUltraliskCavern" Requirements="isBroodQueen"/>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build10" Unit="SporeCannon" Time="60">
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructSporeCannon" Requirements="isHiveQueen"/>
</InfoArray>
<InfoArray index="Build11" Unit="SunkenColony" Time="60">
<Charge Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Cooldown Link="Abil/QueenBuild"/>
<Button DefaultButtonFace="ConstructSunkenColony" Requirements="isHiveQueen"/>
</InfoArray>
...
</CAbilBuild>

<CUnit id="SporeCannon">
<CostResource index="Minerals" value="0"/>
<CostResource index="Vespene" value="450"/>
<AbilArray index="0" Link="BuildInProgress"/>
<AbilArray index="1" Link="stop"/>
<AbilArray Link="attack"/>
<AbilArray Link="SporeCrawlerUproot"/>
<BehaviorArray Link="CreepDMG"/>
<BehaviorArray Link="DefenceStructure"/>
<Footprint value="Footprint2x2Contour2"/>
<Attributes index="Summoned" value="1"/>
</CUnit>

<CActorUnit id="SporeCannon">
<Aliases value="_Main"/>
<On index="61" Terms="UnitConstruction.SporeCannon.Start" Send="Create BuildingTerrainFlatten"/>
<On index="62" Terms="UnitConstruction.SporeCannon.Cancel" Target="_BuildingTerrainFlatten" Send="Destroy"/>
<On index="63" Terms="UnitConstruction.SporeCannon.Finish" Target="_BuildingTerrainFlatten" Send="Destroy"/>
<On index="64" Terms="UnitBirth.SporeCannon.Normal" Target="" Send="Create BuildingTerrainFlatten"/>
<On index="65" Terms="UnitBirth.SporeCannon.Suppressed" Send="Create BuildingTerrainFlattenInstant"/>
<On index="66" Terms="UnitBirth.SporeCannon.EditorPlaced" Send="Create BuildingTerrainFlattenEditor"/>
<On index="67" Terms="UnitDeath.SporeCannon" Target="_BuildingTerrainFlatten" Send="Destroy"/>
<On index="68" Terms="Abil.SporeCannonFire.SourcePrepStart" Target="" Send="AnimPlay Charge Attack"/>
<On index="69" Terms="Abil.SporeCannonFire.SourcePrepStart" Send="AnimSetTimeScale Charge 0.750000"/>
<On index="70" Terms="ActorCreation" Send="Create SoundEmitter Virophage_Stand"/>
<On index="71" Terms="UnitConstruction.SporeCannon.Start" Send="Create SporeCannonBuild"/>
<On Terms="TimerExpired; TimerName Opa" Send="ClearOpacity 0.000000 O"/>
<On Terms="UnitConstruction.SporeCannon.Start" Send="TimerSet 58.500000 Opa"/>
<On Terms="UnitConstruction.SporeCannon.Start" Send="SetOpacity 0.000000 0.000000 O"/>
</CActorUnit>

<CActorModel id="SporeCannonBuild">
<Inherits index="Opacity" value="0"/>
<AcceptedHostedPropTransfers index="Opacity" value="0"/>
<Model value="SpawningPoolBuild"/>
</CActorModel>

as you can see in the sporecannon actor i am currently using timers to reset opacity.

oookkk. and now?

(UnitConstruction.*.Finish|UnitConstruction.*.Cancel|ActorOrphan|ActorCreation):(|||):(Destroy|Destroy|Destroy|Create ZergConstructionAttached)

<CActorModel id="SporeCannonBuild">
<Inherits index="Opacity" value="0"/>
<AcceptedHostedPropTransfers index="Opacity" value="0"/>
<Model value="SpawningPoolBuild"/>
</CActorModel>

Quote from FunkyUserName: Go

(UnitConstruction.*.Finish|UnitConstruction.*.Cancel|ActorOrphan|ActorCreation):(|||):(Destroy|Destroy|Destroy|Create ZergConstructionAttached)

these are the events on the build actor as you requested