I'm trying to make cloaked/stackable marines for a map. I am trying to reproduce the effect from the Sprite Battle System map found here /?file=273http://www.staredit.net/?file=273

I copied what seemed to me to be the critical components of the map. I'm using a unit sprite in SCMDraft2 (Unit Sprite 0).

My trigger is
Conditions:
-Always
Actions:
-move 1 terran marine owned by player 7 to location 0
-disable doodad state for terran marine owned by player 7 at location 0
-wait 10 milliseconds
-enable doodad state for terran marine owned by player 7 at location 0
-enable doodad state for terran marine owned by player 7 at location 0
-wait 10 milliseconds
-disable doodad state for terran marine owned by player 7 at location 0
-wait 10 milliseconds
-enable doodad state for terran marine owned by player 7 at location 0
-enable doodad state for terran marine owned by player 7 at location 0
-wait 10 milliseconds
-move 1 terran marine for current player at location 0 to location 1
-give 1 terran marine owned by player 7 at location 1 to player 2
-enable invincibility for terran marine owned by player 2 at anywhere
-order all terran marine owned by player 2 at location 1 move to location 0
-preserve trigger

This kind of works. I get one marine that is cloaked and locked in perpetual shooting animation. (Edit: I added hyper triggers and now instead of a marine locked in perpetual animation he dissapears completely. Perhaps this is supposed to happen?) The rest are cloaked marines that are only controllable for computer players. They won't stack. If I try to give one to myself Starcraft crashes when I try to look at it or it dissapears.

I've not been able to find any good resources explaining how to work with sprites. if anyone knows of anything i would appreciate a link.

Also if there's something that can keep starcraft from crashing, but report the errors, it would be very usefull. I'm getting tired of restarting starcraft every time some unforeseeable thing goes wrong.

Post has been edited 5 time(s), last time on May 3 2010, 10:12 am by goobie.

Try looking at this map, it helped me wen i tried to do this stuff, just remember you cannot have vision during the cloaking process or else it will crash

Make sure u go to the sprite properies and make sure u tic the box that says Active\disabled

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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 3 2010, 10:07 am by bobo.

Thanks, that did the trick! Had to use starforge to check the disable box. My SCMDraft2 doesn't seem to be very functional when it comes to the sprite properties box...

Even fixed the first marine getting stuck or dissapearing

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 3 2010, 10:42 am by goobie.

You have to do it for every single marine 1 by 1. Setting the doodad state only affects 1 unit at a time, and it's always the same: The leftmost unit in that location.

EDIT: Seems I came too late, haven't updated thread...
About ScmDraft 2 if I'm not entirely mistaken the newest version can place disabled sprites. Check the sticky in the Mapping Tools forum.