Hey guys I was just brainstorming a possible ability for terrans, that would be a smoke grenade that would create a LOS blocker like CURTAINs do, for a set radius, maybe 4?
Possibly make units inside the smoke its self the equivalent of cloaked.
All in the brainstorming phase. I think it will need a custom model.
I do think I could just copy the ability data from HT's storm or sentrys' forcefields, and just remove damage and add the new model which has the same properties as the curtain doodads.
Think of how fitting this would be for Ghosts, perhaps even in place of personnel cloaking. (being able to hide the whole army)
Or perhaps a passive ability for hellions, like overlords' generate creep, they can turn off their attack and generate smoke, which will expire 2 seconds after it leaves that point...
I'm just thinking of all the possibilities if there were a smoke effect in the game.
interesting idea. wrong forum though. this is for showing off map projects.
anyways. theres this doodad called "fog emitter" which is supposed to shoot fog around. you might be able to take the D8 grenade actor and attach that fog emitter actor to it. i haven't gotten the fog emitter to work though... but that might just be because my computer's on low graphics settings.
Discussion and brainstorming about current/future SC2 Map Projects.
Did i read that wrong?
I see "Fog Storm Deep White," no fog emitter though. That may be the actor I want, with the curtain doodad...
I'm just thinking, Terran have no mass-cloaking ability. Zerg have burrow, which their entire army can use. Protoss have the mothership. Terran should get freaking smoke to play with LOS.
Yah this sounds appropriate for this forum, as long as somebody is planning to actually make it. Personally it sounds like a really cool idea, but it might be counterintuitive to the terran strategy. Nearly all terran units are ranged, and throwing up sight blockers would give the other melee races a place to hide behind and unable to be attacked. I suppose in TvT it could be useful...
@Timthetoolmar: I agree completely. Throwing LoS blockers around as a Terran player is the last thing you want to do...
I was toying with making a Corsair like unit - with the Cloud ability from SC1... which would simply stop ranged buildings/units from attacking. I also cannot find a decent smoke/cloud actor...
But my other problem - hopefully it might get solved here - is how do I make a Curtain (LOS Blocker) in the data editor?
Hey guys I was just brainstorming a possible ability for terrans, that would be a smoke grenade that would create a LOS blocker like CURTAINs do, for a set radius, maybe 4? Possibly make units inside the smoke its self the equivalent of cloaked.
All in the brainstorming phase. I think it will need a custom model. I do think I could just copy the ability data from HT's storm or sentrys' forcefields, and just remove damage and add the new model which has the same properties as the curtain doodads.
Think of how fitting this would be for Ghosts, perhaps even in place of personnel cloaking. (being able to hide the whole army) Or perhaps a passive ability for hellions, like overlords' generate creep, they can turn off their attack and generate smoke, which will expire 2 seconds after it leaves that point...
I'm just thinking of all the possibilities if there were a smoke effect in the game.
Anyone have any comments?
interesting idea. wrong forum though. this is for showing off map projects.
anyways. theres this doodad called "fog emitter" which is supposed to shoot fog around. you might be able to take the D8 grenade actor and attach that fog emitter actor to it. i haven't gotten the fog emitter to work though... but that might just be because my computer's on low graphics settings.
Discussion and brainstorming about current/future SC2 Map Projects.
Did i read that wrong?
I see "Fog Storm Deep White," no fog emitter though. That may be the actor I want, with the curtain doodad...
I'm just thinking, Terran have no mass-cloaking ability. Zerg have burrow, which their entire army can use. Protoss have the mothership. Terran should get freaking smoke to play with LOS.
@deleted_4561146: Go
Yah this sounds appropriate for this forum, as long as somebody is planning to actually make it. Personally it sounds like a really cool idea, but it might be counterintuitive to the terran strategy. Nearly all terran units are ranged, and throwing up sight blockers would give the other melee races a place to hide behind and unable to be attacked. I suppose in TvT it could be useful...
@Timthetoolmar: I agree completely. Throwing LoS blockers around as a Terran player is the last thing you want to do...
I was toying with making a Corsair like unit - with the Cloud ability from SC1... which would simply stop ranged buildings/units from attacking. I also cannot find a decent smoke/cloud actor...
But my other problem - hopefully it might get solved here - is how do I make a Curtain (LOS Blocker) in the data editor?
@Nardival: Go
thats exactly something that im dieing to know how to do.