A couple mapmaking quesitons

[gudson]

Well heres a bunch of questions from me for WE; im gonna update this post periodically, i.e. whenever a question is answered or i have another.


- UnAnswered - Answered


- How do i make units trasparent?

- How do i make units unselectable during gameplay?

- How do i make a spell-book were i can specifically level up a selected abitlity in the book?

- How do i make units constantly invisible, i.e when attacking or casting a spell?

- How do i make units attack with items, i.e the game "battleships"- they attack when they have items

- How do i lock the camera to a small area, i.e "skibi's castle" whenever you play a mingame

- How do i make units transparent and able to attack? (permanent banish is a way to make units transparent BUT it disables thier attack)

- How do i remove hero icons from the left side of the screen, i.e having creating a hero unit without having thier icon appear

Thanks for reading, if you can answer any of these please do so.

[GeorgeMots]

About spell book look here

http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthr ... spell+book

Just scroll down and youll find your answer

[trb92]

The attack with items one:
Give the item an item ability based off of phoenix fire, and whichever missile you give the ability will shoot from the unit holding the item at nearby enemies.

[Xantan]

Lets see if I can answer a few of these....

- How do i make units trasparent?

Hmmm, well, I guess you could change the units color, or is it an animation type...

Well, its either in the object editor or you can do actions - unit change color / animation change size or around that area... hmm...

Maybe make someone permanently banished with 0% movement slow or ... yeah, whatever =/

- How do i make units unselectable during gameplay?

Give them the ability locusts or whatever, easilly done with WEU its just the first one on the custom - text based abilities listed I believe... That or you can use my NL type idea - (noleavers) in my pack it constantly forces all non-xantan types to hit escape. This really messes with them so they cant leave, cant really click anything, or cast anything.

- How do i make units constantly invisible, i.e when attacking or casting a spell?

Isnt there an ability or something - Permanent Invisibility?
Or perhaps make a trigger something like:
events: a unit does anything
conditions: unit is in invisgroup (random unit group or personal unit w/e variable)
action: give unit a invis pot, order unit to use invis pot...

or something alike..

- How do i lock the camera to a small area, i.e "skibi's castle" whenever you play a mingame

Cinematics - Pan Camera, or somewhere around there.

You know theres a blizzard version of skibis td thats completely unprotected? check it.

I think I answered at least two... well, enjoy.

[GeorgeMots]

- How do i make units trasparent?

Try this map http://rapidshare.com/files/56574829/Omnislash.w3x.html

Its the spell omnislash from dota. Look where it says Animation - Transparency