Dose anyone know where a REALY good in depth tutorial on sprites would be? i'm haveing trouble with them. trying to cloak terran units and stack them

Terran sprites have a tendency to crash when you do stuff like this, but some may work.

First thing, you have to start out with a disabled sprite, now, here's a list of units and what their sprites do once disabled, and how to do it:
http://Falkoner.CoW.GooglePages.com/Disabled_Sprite_Effects.html
Now, if a unit crashes the game immediately, then that won't work, but if it just creates a rock sprite then crashes when looked at, it might work. Once you manage to get a unit like that, place it inside a location, with it disabled, then have a trigger that Enables the doodad state of that unit. Then order the unit to move. That should make the unit just like any other unit, except it is walkthroughable now. Now to cloak it, disable the unit, enable it, then enable it again, then order it to move and it should work. Make sure to have a small wait in between each of the disablings/enablings. That should cloak it, if it doesn't crash.

Now. what about DarkSwarms? can i DS sprite be preplaced and moved around as needed? or will it disipear? and will it have it's normal effects on units under it?

edit: And about disabled/cloaked terran beacons. i have it claked and redy.. but is there any way to senter it on my unit? and because it's a srpite, and it stack under my unit in small path ways?

edit: edit: AND!!!!!!! lets say i get a zerg drone to be enabled. sence i can walk through it. it shouldn't mess with any units walking over it while it is constantly centered under said unit. BUT, is there any way to "burrow it?" with out human assistance.

edit: edit: edit AND AND!!!! fuck... why don't enemy comp meds blind sprites? they blind normal units when seen. but not sprites.. is there anything i can do? i need the sprites blind at all costs

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Jan 3 2008, 1:08 am by shadow.wraith.