[General] Give a custom flying unit, death animation.

[Ether]

Hello, good day, everyone. I would like to ask if there is a way how would I make this 'Chromatic Red Dragon' a death animation just like the creep, 'Red Dragon' (the anim that explodes into gibs and bones), without using model tools or stuff like that. If there is a trigger or ability trick I could use, kindly aid me in doing this. or maybe another animation that lowers the dragon to the ground, the height of it and then play the death animation.

I also provided of the situation I wanted him to die just like how the Red Dragon does.

 

[Pyrogasm]

The blood explosions are there under Art - Special. There's a whole category of ubersplats for the various unit death gore, I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. You can make a simple trigger to hide the dying dragon and create a special effect explosion in the same location. Might look a little weird but it's functionally the same thing:

• Events
  • Unit - A unit dies
• Conditions
  • Unit-type of (triggering unit) equal to Chromatic Blood Dragon
• Actions
  • Set TempPoint = Position of (Triggering Unit)
  • Unit - Hide (Triggering Unit)
  • Special Effect - Create an effect at TempPoint using "your\gore\explosion\here.mdl"
  • Special Effect - Destroy (last created special effect)
  • Special Effect - Set scale of (last created special effect) to 3.00 //this action might or might not exist, I don't recall; I picked a random number for scale, find what works for you
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_TempPoint)

The effect size won't be right but I think there are new actions to set special effect scale. There may also be one to set its Z height so the explosion appears in the sky where the dragon was not on the ground where it was. It's possible that the animation won't play properly; if you're not seeing anything, try putting a short Wait before the Destroy line (not a good permanent solution but that will help you figure things out for now).