This is jsut something I found recently but sort of has occured naturally in the past but not really taken note of it. The trick is simple:
Deploy a tornado or locust swarm
Transform it to the unit you want to slide around
Thats it you have a unit sliding along the map in a straight line. The direction depends on the unit heading to a certain extent but it does vary lightly every time it is used.
Note that locust swarm starts with a birth animation and therfore on transform units with no birth animation will not appear - tornado has idle animation. I assume crash units restriction still applies.
Uses:
Creating cool sfx moving away from a point
Creating sliding barriers on a map
Sliding transport system?
You could give the moving object a lifespan and events occur at the death of them by using search triggers to pick up a death created object when the object dies. Just thought I would share this with you guys because I see some potential uses of it - infact I have already used it once which was the sliding barriers use for a race map.
Have fun and let me know other possible tricks and uses of this.
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Thats it you have a unit sliding along the map in a straight line. The direction depends on the unit heading to a certain extent but it does vary lightly every time it is used.
Note that locust swarm starts with a birth animation and therfore on transform units with no birth animation will not appear - tornado has idle animation. I assume crash units restriction still applies.
Uses:
You could give the moving object a lifespan and events occur at the death of them by using search triggers to pick up a death created object when the object dies. Just thought I would share this with you guys because I see some potential uses of it - infact I have already used it once which was the sliding barriers use for a race map.
Have fun and let me know other possible tricks and uses of this.
Prepare for the ultimate duel!
Learn to use all my triggers and what you can do with them. Visit here.
Find out and download the transform trigger here.
Play some minigames I have created outside AOM including some 3D games here.
[This message has been edited by nottud (edited 12-23-2009 @ 07:30 PM).]