how do I make a unit play animation "attack 1"?

[WereElf]

The unit has "Attack 1" and "Attack 2" animations, however, when it casts 1 spell, I want it to play "Attack 1" every time. How do I make it do that?

 

[Nichilus]

you have to know under which index is the animation listed (e.g. War3Viewer shows animation in indexed order, starting with index 0) and then use the command
SetUnitAnimationByIndex(unit, index)

 

[Regent_Artiman]

you have to know under which index is the animation listed (e.g. War3Viewer shows animation in indexed order, starting with index 0) and then use the command
SetUnitAnimationByIndex(unit, index)

Is it work for Stand animations? I can't play stand animation of Grom with trigger.

 

[Arad MNK]

It works EXACTLY correctly.

T77df, the animation indexes start with 0, not 1. So the first animation (stand probably) is 0, not 1.

@WW: MDLvis has that feature too, but Magos model editor doesn't.

 

[Ardenian]

Open the model in the Warcraft Model Editor, remove its spell animation, if it has one,
then rename 'Attack 1' to 'Spell'
Remove '-2' from the attack animation name ( everything done in the Sequence editor).
You might also have to un-tick Rarity of both animations.

 

[Death Adder]

Open the model in the Warcraft Model Editor, remove its spell animation, if it has one,
then rename 'Attack 1' to 'Spell'
Remove '-2' from the attack animation name ( everything done in the Sequence editor).
You might also have to un-tick Rarity of both animations.

Yeah, afaik you have to do like Ardenian says here. You could technically play another animation through trigger but there would be a delay.

If you don't change the base animation played directly from the spell or ability the unit would first play the wrong animation for something like 0.3 seconds depending on it's casting point or w/e and then the triggered animation could be played instead only afterwards.

 

[Arad MNK]

Why do modeling when you can easily enough do it by scripts? Saves a spell animation.

 

[Ardenian]

Why writing a seperate script/trigger when you import a custom model anyways,
not to mention how easy the model edit is compared to setting up and writing a script concept

 

[Death Adder]

Why do modeling when you can easily enough do it by scripts? Saves a spell animation.

Can you do it with script without extra delay?

How do you prevent the unit from playing the normal spell animation, without breaking the spell or ability, and not have the unit wait the entire "unit - cast point" period before playing the scripted animation?

Why writing a seperate script/trigger when you import a custom model anyways,
not to mention how easy the model edit is compared to setting up and writing a script concept

Well, obviously we'd rather just put in one line of script, if it actually worked, but that doesn't work. (You can perhaps use things like "issued order" with no target abilities, since the unit will never have to move first to get in range to cast.)

So the better alternative is usually to just change the model a bit, like you said.