Ok, not alot of convesation in the fourms, but I have thought of yet another question.

Im trying to get a sunken colony to spawn next to the player; I have tried everything but a inverted location, which I do not know how to create.
I can get them to spawn but the location has to be rather large and it will not spawn close like I want it to.
Does it make a difference if a unit just died at that location? Like will their damned bodies get in the way?

You wouldn't need an inverted location for this scenario. In SCMDraft 2, to make an inverted location, open up the location's properties and hit "Invert XY."

But for this scenario, a regular location should be fine.

Why does the location have to be large? Is it used for more than one thing? If so, you should use a different location for more precise spawning, as everything is created at the center of a location (regardless of the location's size).

You can kill/replace on the same frame*. Keep in mind if there is something blocking the spawn area for a unit, it will still appear near it.

* I'm thinking of remove/replace. If you kill/create a unit, the dying unit would still block his area for that frame. A unit's corpse/death animation will not block any spawns.

Post has been edited 4 time(s), last time on Jan 8 2012, 4:20 pm by Roy.

You can make cool 'spawning' animations for Zerg buildings and troops (to simulate Zerg drop pods) by creating and killing a Zerg Creep Colony at a location and then creating whatever structure you want. I use that all the time. I think it was first used in one of RCX's custom campaigns, or maybe Resurgence, but regardless it makes for a cool animation.

To be precise, I want a zegling to enter a area following the player, it dies in one second, spawn ultralisk, which dies shortly but not by the player,(by trigger) then spawn sunken colony. I meant the sunken colony would not spawn unless my location was large, but then the effect I'm going for isn't their if it spawned so far away. I figured a inverted location might center on the player without trying to spawn the colony on top of the player.
This is more of an evil trick not a regular spawn.

No, an inverted location is not what you seem to think it is.

Your location's size does not matter when creating units. You can have a location the size of the map or the size of a pixel and it would still make a unit at the center of the location. Buildings are forced to spawn on the grid, however, so they may not spawn at exactly the "center" of the location but rather the closest they can.

I assume you want to create a Sunken Colony where the Ultralisk dies? If so, center the location on the Ultralisk, kill the Ultralisk, wait 0 milliseconds, and then create the Sunken Colony.

If the only thing you changed between two tests was the locations size, then I think you experienced Location Shifting

I dialed it in and I created the effect I was going for. Just an evil trick in my map.