Hi everyone who already lives here. I hope this is both easy to answer and not already answered somewhere where I didn't find it, just to be less annoying.
I am trying to make a simple ability much like the Fountain of Mana/Fountain of Health ability in WC3, that heals and re-powers nearby units.
So far I have put together:
a 'search area' effect, so the 'fountain' will check in a 360 degree radius about itself
a 'set' effect, so that the ability triggers two different effects
two 'modify unit' effects, one for health and one for energy.
I feel like I have all the jigsaw pieces, but I cannot put them together, because I cannot select my custom effects from the drop-down list available when I wish to choose what effects the search area or set effect trigger.
follow this really easy tutorial, it is an aura, so when units are in range they will receive a buff, just change the buff from a damage modifier to a health regen or a energy regen, and attatch it to what ever unit you want
Thankyou for the swift response. It took me a while to figure out what I was doing differently that made my effects not want to appear in the drop-down list, but I now believe the difference is that,
in the tutorial a NEW effect was created and given the effect type (e.g. 'buff' or 'search area')
in my example I actually found the basic effect ('buff', etc.) and DUPLICATED it.
Maybe the ID for the duplicated effect does not show separately in the drop-down list?
Thanks again.
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Hi everyone who already lives here. I hope this is both easy to answer and not already answered somewhere where I didn't find it, just to be less annoying.
I am trying to make a simple ability much like the Fountain of Mana/Fountain of Health ability in WC3, that heals and re-powers nearby units.
So far I have put together: a 'search area' effect, so the 'fountain' will check in a 360 degree radius about itself a 'set' effect, so that the ability triggers two different effects two 'modify unit' effects, one for health and one for energy.
I feel like I have all the jigsaw pieces, but I cannot put them together, because I cannot select my custom effects from the drop-down list available when I wish to choose what effects the search area or set effect trigger.
Am I missing something simple?
http://forums.sc2mapster.com/resources/tutorials/9277-applying-an-aura-to-a-unit-easy-difficulty/
follow this really easy tutorial, it is an aura, so when units are in range they will receive a buff, just change the buff from a damage modifier to a health regen or a energy regen, and attatch it to what ever unit you want
Thankyou for the swift response. It took me a while to figure out what I was doing differently that made my effects not want to appear in the drop-down list, but I now believe the difference is that,
in the tutorial a NEW effect was created and given the effect type (e.g. 'buff' or 'search area')
in my example I actually found the basic effect ('buff', etc.) and DUPLICATED it.
Maybe the ID for the duplicated effect does not show separately in the drop-down list?
Thanks again.