Slowing down a special effect

[darwin]

I have a special effect that I would like to slow down; i.e. I'd like to double the length of the birth animation so that the model moves more slowly. (I'm working with the hand that bursts out of the ground and grabs the crystal).

I have War3ModelEditor and know how to play around a bit with it (e.g. add attachments, shrink parts, add new sounds, change colors).

Is there an easy way of changing a model to make it move more slowly?

 

[Kyrbi0]

I would like to know this as well.

I suspect, however, that it's not something do-able in Magos. Probably in MdlVis, where you would have to (wild guess) insert twice as many frames in between the keyframes of an animation?

 

[darwin]

Hmm... I'm afraid Magos is all I know. I considered just making a dummy locust unit; I can slow them down via triggers. But that's kind of clunky and has issues with collusion and attachment points.

 

[Hermit]

I suspect, however, that it's not something do-able in Magos.

Don't underestimate Magos. You can even do this with Notepad if you know exactly what you're doing (I wouldn't recommend it, though).

Probably in MdlVis, where you would have to (wild guess) insert twice as many frames in between the keyframes of an animation?

You can do it like that, but the easiest way is to do it with Matrix Eater. With Matrix Eater, you can change the speed of animations just by dragging the slider thingy.

It looks like this

 

[GhostWolf]

I can't think of any program that does this (Oh, Matrix Eater does this? good). I was actually requested to make one a long time ago, but I never did. Oops.

 

[Hermit]

Oh, Matrix Eater does this?

Yes, Retera recently added some awesome new features. Download the latest version from my post in this thread.

 

[Kyrbi0]

That's awexome. That's so awexome.