[Visual Effect] - Pit Lord Ultimate

[The Observer]

Red portal tilted on the ground, yuck, it makes things look bad if you are in the middle of a battle.

I only wanted the rocks.



Kinda like that.

[Siraraz]

If you can get that to work on cliffs (without looking weird) and the like. I'd like that ^^

[The Observer]

Originally Posted by APL

If you can get that to work on cliffs (without looking weird) and the like. I'd like that ^^

The only thing i can see possible is

1. the rocks will pass through anything. so if you're standing on the river some rocks will not be visible, but some will, and that passing ghost and red like aura will make it still visible.

2. rocks will follow the wave of the terrain. if it hits higher ground it moves upward and vice versa but will possibly need importing.

Now yes it's possible, and if you can imagine that the only things are only the floating rocks it might look like this.



So yes, it won't really look that bad.

[IAmTheSpoon]

Originally Posted by asam3

I only want the circling orbs and the ghost thing passing through them. I want the red portal to be removed(which needs importing, i think)

(that took me alot of time to figure out how to tilt the portal)

That, if possible.

[Zirath]

asam, rather than making the potal go underground, make it 50-75% transparent and don't bother tinting it. I think that might look better.

[Zinho]

Wow, this was revived from DA.... the one with the dark orbs is nice, also if possible the huge vampiric aura would fit too, well most of the stuff here seems nice and ANY effect added can help.

[Olinea]

I'm back; this time, with a testmap and photos to catch your attention.

Pit Lord starts casting Dark Portal.



The circle is created, and we can see who was designated as the guy to teleport to. Notice the 3 as well.



Numbers decrease, telling you how much longer it will take before Pit Lord teleports.



Giant storm of purple stuff explodes and Pit Lord disappears.



The Pit Lord humps his victim.




I tried to scale the aura model so it'd accurately represent who gets pulled in. I'm starting to realize I should have done it with a few units around, but I already coded a bunch just to get the spell to work right and include a nice goodie to boot.

As always, testmap is provided.

[Whitefang]

Countdown timer would be good as well.

[Cp6uja]

I'm sorry Olinea, but:

9.3Mb test map? 2.5 times larger than whole DotA?

[EricJLima]

Man this thread is filled with win.

[Olinea]

Originally Posted by Cp6uja_

I'm sorry Olinea, but:

9.3Mb test map? 2.5 times larger than whole DotA?

The size is due to a bit of music I imported into the map. Of course, it was rather crudely done and it's not necessary for the actual spell.

[5chneemensch]

virtviuz suggestion with Olineas purple stuff looks good

Vampiric Aura sucks in my opinion, looks not portal'ish

[Unfawkable]

Originally Posted by dark.88

Those pink things rotate around to make it look like an orb/portal. Incase people are wondering what it is, its 3 big frost armors with a purple/transparent tint. It looks 20x better when the whole thing is being animated.

It could start small but grow as the channel time goes on, or vise-verse

This, but with pit lord and things in the portal getting smaller and smaller, and then appearing bigger and bigger on the point where he is going.

[The Observer]

If anyone can do this, please do it. cause right now, i know like 0% about triggering(that portal's just a doodad)

1. Portal instantly appears underneath pitlord when casted.
2. Portal lasts for as long as the skill's duration is.
3. Portal shows the death animation when the time ends and units gets teleported.

I know it's easy, but since i'm dumbfounded at the world editor, how can it be possibly easy to me?

[Olinea]

Originally Posted by asam3

If anyone can do this, please do it. cause right now, i know like 0% about triggering(that portal's just a doodad)

1. Portal instantly appears underneath pitlord when casted.
2. Portal lasts for as long as the skill's duration is.
3. Portal shows the death animation when the time ends and units gets teleported.

I know it's easy, but since i'm dumbfounded at the world editor, how can it be possibly easy to me?

Open up my map. Find the unit with the model file Vampiric Aura. Turn it into the Unit model "Shimmering Portal". Then find the two values that are purple and read 0. Press shift-enter and make them -90.

[The Observer]

it's turning around. and it's too big. and the portal's not directly under pitlord, it's like it's turning around at him.

[~Bob~]

I have some idea...
1. Make a model with rotated Dark Portal so it will be parallel to land, and make its radius same as Dark Rift aoe.
2. When Pitlord casts Dark Rift, this portal model appears over him on height ~400~600.
3. Portal will lose it height while casting time, so it must take 6/5/4 seconds to get on land.
4. After this portal explodes (or closes) and all heroes are teleported.

[Redeemed A.I.]

Originally Posted by Gazar-

Here is is a possible version of an effect:

Click to enlarge!
Attachment 3767

Model is orb of slow projectile tinted violet. Is possible not the best solution but my first idea to handle the problem. Btw. Is it not more than visual? I mean when allies see how large the area is, it would mean a good buff to Pit's ulti.

I think that one fits the theme.Purpletastic,clear to the ally eye and eye candier

[virtviuz]

here's a quick preview of what I'm doing

[Dark Kenshi]

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