[Solved] How do you play a units "Stand Ready Alternate" animation via triggers?

[Boar]

Help ploxols. I've tried "stand, ready, alternate" "Stand, Ready, Alternate" And plain "Stand Ready Alternate" via the animation trigger. No dice.

 

[Kala]

You can play only 1 animation at the same time.

"stand, ready, alternate" will play only the alternate animation, since it's the last one in the list.

 

[Maker]

You can try

• Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(unit, index)

The index is an integer. Indexes start from 0, you'll have to find the correct number.

Animation - play unit animation plays the anim once, that custom scripts keeps looping it until it is interrupted.

 

[Hashjie]

Try this:

• Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex (your_unit, AnimationIndex)

your_unit is a unit variable (use udg_ if your going to use globals)
AnimationIndex is the index of the animation name which can be retrieved from the preview pallet.


EDIT: Maker beat me to it while I was writing this >.<

 

[emjlr3]

i have never quite understood exactly how animation names work when using triggers

some seem fine, others, not so much

this script should take care of the "finding" mentioned above

just call it for whatever unit you a re interested in

function ShowAnimationIndexes takes unit u returns nothing
    local integer i=0 // animations start at 0 actually
    
    loop
        exitwhen i>15 // have yet to see a unit with more than 16 animations
        // though some may have only half so many
        call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(u,i) // set animation to index i
        call BJDebugMsg("Animation Index: "+I2S(i)) // display to players what animation index is being performed
        call TriggerSleepAction(3.) // wait so we can see what the animation actually is
        set i=i+1 // try the next one
    endloop
endfunction

from the preview pallet

I am interested in this - because when viewing a unit in the Object Editor, the order of the animations rarely corresponds to what their index is - unless I am missing something

 

[Maker]

...when viewing a unit in the object editor, the order of the animations rarely corresponds to what their index is...

This.

 

[Boar]

Thanks guys, +Rep to you all. Animation index was 7

Edit: Sadly, "I must spread rep to more people before giving to maker, Hashjie again."