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I'm making a persistent effect that is supposed to create an AoE smoke screen, the problem is when I use models "smokemedium" or any "cloud" models, they won't appear. I tested the effect with other models such as "zergling small unit death" and "terran large explosion" and it works fine so I know the persistent effect works correctly, just not the desired model.

I tried copying the irradiate host properties but that doesn't work. I'm almost positive it has to do with the host supporter and host properties but I can't figure out which ones. Worked on it for literally hours but can't figure it out.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

Graphics should be high enough. I just tried irradiate and it somewhat works. Thanks for the input, drsuperevi!

Well, I tried the irradiate effect with duplicating the actors and it doesn't look good. The effect just doesn't look convincing as smoke or a cloud. I'm actually not trying to make a smoke screen (as I indicated above) but instead a cloudy/dispersed liquid effect. I think an altered disease cloud or cloud model would work best. Making from scratch is still a little out of my expertise so haven't tried it, not entirely sure what to do. Knowing which actors to use and especially events is still a WIP.

Was hoping to reveal the whole thing when the final product was ready but I need a lot of help at this point :)

I'm trying to do this:

First phase is a missile coming down (for now, later I'm making this a bombing run) and the first effect is the missile exploding and releasing the fuel-air cloud effect; this cloud would be persistent until the second phase happens. Second phase of effect is the ignition of the cloud, which I've done with multiple terran large explosion models in different x,y,z coordinates. The explosion looks pretty cool so far.

I know animationplay is necessary and for it to initiate when the persistent effect is used, but putting it all together is the problem.

That's it. Thanks for your continued help drsuperevil :D

Tried that but I don't know movers well and that seems even harder than what I'm trying to do now. Just a ton of trial and error at this point.

Thanks! Downloaded and will try it out tonight :D

nice, I see what you did here. This helps a lot! Although I still think using an effect-target would be best for this ability rather than movers. This gives me an idea for something else :D :D :D

Good point. It doesn't use a "launch missile" effect yet as right now I'm using the NukeFalling model (which is an animation in itself) but I should change it now and go the launch missile route.