Yeah I got it to work after watching OneTwoSC's shotgun weapon tutorial. Created a Site actor with an event to create on spell effect persistent (At Target, or At Effect - I think both worked) and SOpAttachCenter. The beam actor creates on the search effect, and references the site actor for it's impact site. For the launch site I used an "Creation" type (on the beam actor) and that referenced a SiteUNIT actor that had no events. So I assume the "Creation" time creates the site itself, because the site IS itself (the unit).
Done a lot of searching but either too new to make sense of it, or topic is beam targeting a unit, not a point.
Right now I have an ability very similar to Psi Storm... for all practical purposes it is the same thing except I need a beam to go from the unit to the targeted point on the ground, and it needs to work even if there are no units in the search area AOE. The ability is also channeled, but not sure if that is relevant. I've gotten to work when there is a unit there, but it won't work when there is no unit in the area.
I've looked at Colossus weapons and it just seems way too in depth because the lasers move, I feel like I'm sifting through a lot of unnecessary data and not sure what is relevant or not. Also, not sure how weapons operate compared to abilities in this instance. Site actors and hosting are still very alien to me right now.
Yeah I got it to work after watching OneTwoSC's shotgun weapon tutorial. Created a Site actor with an event to create on spell effect persistent (At Target, or At Effect - I think both worked) and SOpAttachCenter. The beam actor creates on the search effect, and references the site actor for it's impact site. For the launch site I used an "Creation" type (on the beam actor) and that referenced a SiteUNIT actor that had no events. So I assume the "Creation" time creates the site itself, because the site IS itself (the unit).
Thanks for the help guys.
Done a lot of searching but either too new to make sense of it, or topic is beam targeting a unit, not a point.
Right now I have an ability very similar to Psi Storm... for all practical purposes it is the same thing except I need a beam to go from the unit to the targeted point on the ground, and it needs to work even if there are no units in the search area AOE. The ability is also channeled, but not sure if that is relevant. I've gotten to work when there is a unit there, but it won't work when there is no unit in the area.
I've looked at Colossus weapons and it just seems way too in depth because the lasers move, I feel like I'm sifting through a lot of unnecessary data and not sure what is relevant or not. Also, not sure how weapons operate compared to abilities in this instance. Site actors and hosting are still very alien to me right now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks