I'm trying to add an escort to a ground unit but seem to be having some trouble finding the setting which sets the distance from the unit the escort will sit. I added the escort through the Arm magazine ability like the broodlords escort, with the external option checked.
I thought setting collision between the units might be the answer but so far I have noticed some very strange behavior with collision, for example if the escort has collision enabled with the main unit, the escort will push the main unit around forcing it to constantly move in a random direction, if its not enabled between them then the escort just sits inside the model.
The Distance option in the Arm Magazine ability seems like the obvious choice for this but setting it to any value seems to do nothing.
I'm not sure that distance the unit's passively follow at is one of the parameters you can change in the Arm Magazine ability. It may take a more creative solution to solve this problem. I know this isn't very helpful, I just wanted to point out that having played with the ability quite a bit, I don't think you are missing something, the option just doesn't exist in the base ability :P
After a fair bit of testing a worked it out, the distance field does work, the issue was the angle I had it set at 0 which in the editor appears behind the unit but is the front, and since the unit has collision the escort ends up pushing the main unit around, setting to 180 fixed the issue.
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I'm trying to add an escort to a ground unit but seem to be having some trouble finding the setting which sets the distance from the unit the escort will sit. I added the escort through the Arm magazine ability like the broodlords escort, with the external option checked.
I thought setting collision between the units might be the answer but so far I have noticed some very strange behavior with collision, for example if the escort has collision enabled with the main unit, the escort will push the main unit around forcing it to constantly move in a random direction, if its not enabled between them then the escort just sits inside the model.
The Distance option in the Arm Magazine ability seems like the obvious choice for this but setting it to any value seems to do nothing.
I'm not sure that distance the unit's passively follow at is one of the parameters you can change in the Arm Magazine ability. It may take a more creative solution to solve this problem. I know this isn't very helpful, I just wanted to point out that having played with the ability quite a bit, I don't think you are missing something, the option just doesn't exist in the base ability :P
@Aenigma: Go
After a fair bit of testing a worked it out, the distance field does work, the issue was the angle I had it set at 0 which in the editor appears behind the unit but is the front, and since the unit has collision the escort ends up pushing the main unit around, setting to 180 fixed the issue.