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spell triggering help!

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#1

spell triggering help!

i want to learn how to create spells and the first thing i want to create is a spell much like impale. u target the ground point and the spikes come up. i would like to change the spikes to anything else and make there be no stun.
#2
That's easy... Go to Object Editor and select Impale. Now, look for Stats - Duration and put all of them to 0.01. Don't put any duration to 0.00 becausee it will make the duration be equal with infinite. :D That should do the stunning stuff. Usually stunning spells have durations (check Storm Bolt as well) and that duration is actually the stun duration. The same thing with War Stomp. :D

Now, for the animations is more complicated. Usually animations and effects are edited through nomral fields which begin with Art. Art section includes not only efects but icons as well. :D Now, scroll up until you reach the art section for Impale. For this spell, the spikes are represented through Art - Special. Select this field and choose the animation of your choice. It should work now!!!
#3
Someone should really take the time to explain what every field does in editing a spell. Maybe I will...
#4
Perhaps make a tutorial or something? Hmm... But you will need to ask Darky then to put it... I tried once to post a tutorial "Bases of Programming" but... I didn't have the luck to find darky and then... my harddisk got formatted so I lost that... Too bad.
#5
If you experiment with it, you will notice that implae spikes are the only model that can do that. Otherwise, like 3 SFX just pop up in the beginning, middle, and end of the trail.
#6
Hmm... That is true indeed... I was thinking that you could have a dummy unit cast Shockwave at the same time so it looks like the Shockwave is rising the units up. What do you say?
#7

spell

i know i can change the impale but i want to try triggering it so the say frost nova isnt simotaneous. how do i trigger it so 1 nova comes up and then another nova after it in a line?
#8
Check Vexorian's first spell pack. He has a Frost Nova in line spell I think. You can figure out probably how he made it.
#9

frost line

vexorian's ice wave goes in a line but it is based of a spell and i want to know how to make one that is based off only triggers and a dummy ability.
#10

topic

to make a long story short i want to make a spell like impale only with triggers.