Hi guys, I played a map a while ago that had a spell effect where it would slow your unit down much like ensnare does. Your unit is hit by the spell effect and gets "ensnared". This pretty much sums it all up. I'm wondering how he/she did this? Thanks in advance guys.

If you constantly move a burrowed Zerg unit under another unit, it slows down the unit. I don't know why, but it does. It must be done with hyper triggers to be effective.

The unit collides with the burrowed unit and ceases to move during the frame in which it collided. As hyper triggers run every 2nd frame at fastest, this prevents us from completely halting a unit using this method.

Just to clarify from the OP: the spell effect you saw in the other map just slowed the (ground) units down, yes? It did not actually cast ensnare with full graphics and detection ability?

ImagoDeo, I'm gona go try that right now.

Lanthanide, yes, it slowed down a ground unit with no graphical effects.

Edit: I had a go at trying to re-produce the effect but only managed to get it to work the very first time it's triggered. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Here is a link to the test file: Ensnare Effect test file

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 18 2010, 11:32 pm by RetPallylol.

you didn't preserve your hyper triggers, and the IT wants to unburrow to attack the egg. Use p9-12 or a neutral computer.

Or instead of moving, you can create and remove air units at the desired unit's location.

Or be like the Dark Mage's l3 curse in Temple Siege, where it rapidly spawns/kills queens on the enemy heros.

Of course you would say something like that lol.

What happens if you do both?

I'm pretty sure there are burrowed units being created//removed during the spell.

Hi guys, so I succeeded in making the effect using P2 and allying him with P1 so the AI doesn't screw around. But, when I tried using the same triggers with P9 it doesn't work at all. Am I missing something for P9? The move trigger won't activate at all.

File link: Ensnare effect Player 9 broken

P9+ can't own triggers. Have the trigger owned by one of P1-8 and let them move the P9 units.

i was just wondering... is there any way to actually force a computer player's queen to ensnare?

Metal, you really should learn to use the wiki.

cool thanku... i can now use this in my map

Ahh thank you NudeRaider, did not know that. Effect works like a charm now.