Animation set to Point?

[CanFight]

Well no idea how to say this but...
Lets say i order a unit to play a spesific animation but i want it to start in the middle of the animation. Just wondering if this is possible

 

[Bannar]

You could increase unit's animation speed for short period untill it reaches your desired state. Tho, this requires some testing - you need to estimate enhanced anim period.

Why would you want a unit to play its animation in middle point anyway?

 

[CanFight]

Could be awsome if you make a trail after a unit that fades away and those "trail copies" animation freezes at the same animation time as the unit is at that time

 

[Bannar]

Imitating excact unit animation given sequence and interval on another unit seems troublesome.
"Fading trail" is not really anything new tho, and to achieve such effect you do not actually new to be perfect.

Most of such "trails" involve creating dummy units that are added into periodic loop to apply contant "fading" effect. Such dummy has its animation set either by Queue/SetUnitAnimation or SetUnitAnimationByIndex function.

 

[CanFight]

Yea i know ive created a few system in my days (been a mapper for 6 years now) just new on hive, was just wondering if this was even possible

 

[PurgeandFire]

If you want to know the general "tactic" behind those fade spells, it generally goes like this:

(1) calculate where the unit is going to go, and calculate the amount of faded "dummies" you'll need
(2) have all of them play their animations, but hide them all (or set their alpha to 0 using the Animation - Set Vertex color)
(3) whenever you display one of the "faded" units, just pause its animation. That way, all the dummies will be at different stages in the animation, synchronized with the caster unit.

 

[CanFight]

O thanks bro nice sulution!
Will probebly make something like that

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