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A simple effect of burrowing dust as you walk, not as easy to make as it may seem. Check it out, and if you're interested in how it works you can look at the triggers.

It's coool, but it's not perfect. Too much trouble for such alittle detail.

Lol, that's cool, but theres one problem. The dust comes on every 3 or 4 steps. If u didnt have that, itd be really cool. lol...

I have a version of this where it comes every step, but you can see the zergling.. as it burrows, so i dont know how to fix it..

Any ideas on how to fix that?

Wouldn't you just make a zergling spawn under the unit and unburrow? (make the location the size of the unit so the zergling unburrowing wont effect it).

I'll try to make a way that looks cool.

Hmm... that gives me an idea Farty

Make the unitt under the unit in a 1x1 location as you stated.
Make a Bigger 2x2 or maybe 3x3 location following the same unit as the 1x1.
Make all burrowed units in the bigger location to Always unburrow.
Figure out the amount of time between the time when the order is issued and when the burrowed unit's body is now visible.
Find the 95% of X time.

I think the best unit for the would be the Defiler because of slow burrowing time.

Now here's the actual triggers:

1) Make Location A(1x1), LocationB(2x2) and LocationC(10x10) follow UnitX
2) If 0 Unit(Burrowable) are in Location B then create 1 Unit(Burrowable) in Location A
3) If 0 Unit(Burrowable) are in Location A and 1 Unit(Burrowable) is in Location B then Order All Zergling in Location B to Unburrow and Set Switch#
4) If Switch# is Set, Wait X time(The 95% stated above) and then Remove(Don't kill) all untis in Location C and then Disable Switch#

It's a very simple trigger system and it's effective. It'll produce 1 unit once every 2 tiles of movement so that it looks more like walking dust than just a bigass smoke.

That IS a good idea beer, but we still need to think of a way to make it so that the player wont see the unit burrow/unburrow (depending on which idea we wish to use.)

In my mind if you see the actual unit unburrow/burrow then its pointless..

What I am doing is this:
1) An area of high sand
2) A location the size of the marine ("Marine")
3) A 2x2 location ("Marine2"
4) A big location with Low Elevation disabled over everything
5) Low dirt blended to High sand (then when your on dirt, no dust )

Then when there is no burrowed unit at Marine, and is one at Marine2 it will unburrow and remove.
Then it creates on at Marine.

I'll tell you if it works or not after a bit of testing. If it does, I'll post the map.

ADDITION:
Ok, I made it. The zergling doesn't look much like dust, but its a start.
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I like my idea of making it so that you walk on dirt and it stops I could have done the terraining a little better to make it a little nicer, but its good for now.

Oo, this is nice. Only good for Desert Terrain though, or jungle stuff... we wouldn't want dust coming out in ice terrain

I was also thinking of making footstep sounds with different terrain .. so if you were walking on instilation terrain on the platform you would hear 'thunk' 'thunk'... on jungle like stepping on grass ..etc but that involves me recording sounds and searching for them ... arg.

This is pretty nice, just that i can see the zergling burrow when the marine moves foward with his back toward your face

its a nice effect but it makes the marine lag when it moves

Doesn't it suppose to? You are walking on sand

Maybe you could cloak the zergling?

Cloaking the zergling causes cloaked smoke, what Kamikaze.Kow showed me is a arbiter moving to the ling, then the ling burrows. (It shows smoke, yet ling is cloaked)

interesting concept.

not to be used in rpg's




but otherwise good

Took my idea....

Anyway why not make a large set of permanently cloacked lings and use those for your effect. I'm pretty sure it could be done.

Addition: Kenoli's version works fine....why did you say you can see the ling? I didn't see it.

Burrowing undoes permanent cloak on zerg units.

If it cloaked with triggers burrowing does nothing, it is only if you use the glitch (arbiter to cloak) that it undoes.

You could have a trigger-cloaked arbiter near it, cloaking the zergling while there's still dust.

How about putting an arbiter at the place where the ling unburrows so that it's cloaked there and then once you move it to unburrow under the marine it will still be cloaked yet in the process of uncloaking.