SC2Mapster

I am remaking a Medivac's Dual Heal Beam Ability.

It works, but is there a simpler way to mimic channelling two effect trees at the same time?

How about copy medic heal ability, add it to the medivac but change the validator to allow to be use together.

@EDHRIANO: Go

Good idea, that was my first thought too. Only one ability effect tree can be channeled at a time; a second channeling would cancel the first channeled ability. However I was able to mimic dual channeling by having the second ability as non-channeled.

I added set effects that run additional (non-channeled) create healer effects onto that single channel. -using buffs to validate control qty, range. its jittery (unit stutters) -not recommended. (channeling is not interrupted, effect tree still works)

@DrSuperEvil: Go

Thank you for pointing me to impact and launch site actors. I have avoided diving into actor scopes msgs, but now i understand the basics.

1. I used a channeled persistent as you suggested, which runs periodics. I tested and learned alot. The channel can passthrough sets and switches to reach a 'end-branch' channeled effect (but only one).

2. On a side note: I thought that a channeling-flag and a persist-until-destroyed-flagged persistentEffect would be able to split-channel mutiple effects, like a computer network switch. It does not. In fact, I don't think anyone knows what 'channeling' does.

After creating several custom effect trees, I ended up using a re-created and modified version of the original Medivac effect tree. I understand now why the creator made it this way. Its stupidly complex, but behaves precisely, predictably and its easier to expand the tree.

Lastly, they use multiple-nested set effects to run modify-unit effects instead of create-healer effects to modify units. -because the create healer effect has marker issues. Markers do not seem to work at all on them when inside persistent periods.