Custom Moonfire Spell

[Argoclips]

I'm creating a custom Moonfire spell based off of Shadow Strike, using the Starfall animation. Everything is in good order except the animation delay after the initial damage has been dealt. I'm looking for a way to speed up the spell/buff animation or delay the initial damage to match the animation.

I have a feeling this would be something that I would need to work on in JASS but I'll reach out to the community first. Many thanks.

 

[polardude]

you can try and set the missile speed i think that will work for you !

 

[Argoclips]

I did try lowering the missile speed but the animation began as a actual missile creep slowly toward the target. xD I ended up changing the cast animation and it looks decent enough. Thanks you for your response!

 

[Uncle]

A Missile Speed of 0 is "instant". 0 often has a different effect in the Object Editor then what you'd expect.

Anyway, as far as I understand, Moonfire just creates an instant beam from the sky on the target. This is pretty easy to do with triggers:

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
• Conditions
  • (Ability being cast) Equal to Moonfire
• Actions
  • Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the origin of (Target unit of ability being) using model/path/name.mdl
  • Special Effect - Destroy (Last created effect)

That's assuming that the Art - Target field on the ability in the Object Editor isn't usable. There's also Art - Effect and Art - Special which can sometimes work.