12:27, 7th Sep 2010
General Frank:

Nice idea, but you should really fix the wrapping issues and on the upper and lower side of the cross-guard.

7th September 2010
General Frank:
Changes are made - resource approved. Works in-game.

I made this for better Item-effects. Like the Monster you've killed "really" drops that item, it flys around and lands on the ground, stucked. And waits until you pick it up

Works great with the creation action, but when you drop it with your Hero (after picked the created item up) you have to re-create it for the air-flipping birth animation of it.

Suggestions & Tipps are welcome! Enjoy!

Nice, werry usefull in RPG's. Like it 9/10

• Replace Items
• Events
  • Unit/Hero drops an item
• Conditions
  • Item being manipulated/dropped equal to Item_Sword
• Actions
  • Set TempPoint = Last dropped item
  • Remove last dropped Item
  • Create Item_Sword at position of TempPoint
  • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_TempPoint)

Fixed trigger, leakless. (learned this a few days ago )

thanks for your trigger post, mine was more like an info on how it should work, not a copy&paste trigger

That's what I am looking for. It can be very useful, especialy if you want to replace normal item model with a sword. 5/5 + rep

Great item but I suggest you make the birth animation "non-looping" because it repeats it self over and over when a unit drops the item. 5/5

hmm thought I had deactivate looping, let's see if I changed it accidently with some edits.. thanks for the info!

Can be useful in RPG 4/5

your trigger will mess up charges and cooldown

It is just supposed to be an example trigger.. not more not less..
It just displays a possible way to create the birth effect (don't think u can play specific animation names on items).
Because it's not playing when you normally drop the item, only when it's created ingame..
This is just an example how it could work.. but not a finished useable trigger

Useful but if this and the shield are the only drop-animated items in a map it would be unfit...

hmm... is it possible to just do it like this:

make that dropping animation the start of its stand animation? so you wont need to use triggers...

EDIT: hmmm... I guess you cant because of the particle emitters on the stand animation...

or at least upload another one without the emitters so you can set the birth animation to be the stand animation?

Good job!

Adiktuz said:

Useful but if this and the shield are the only drop-animated items in a map it would be unfit...

hmm... is it possible to just do it like this:

make that dropping animation the start of its stand animation? so you wont need to use triggers...

EDIT: hmmm... I guess you cant because of the particle emitters on the stand animation...

or at least upload another one without the emitters so you can set the birth animation to be the stand animation?

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I'm planning to do some more dropable items, with some effects and that are not floating over the ground and spinning around But this could take a while, because I change homes and therefore have no internet the next weeks.


You would still need a trigger for this, at least to pause the stand animations, else it will replay.. and you have like every 5-10 seconds the birth effect again till it plays the stand part for another 5-10 sec. and replays the birth effect.. so you would need triggers this or the other way..

Tr!KzZ said:

I'm planning to do some more dropable items, with some effects and that are not floating over the ground and spinning around But this could take a while, because I change homes and therefore have no internet the next weeks.


You would still need a trigger for this, at least to pause the stand animations, else it will replay.. and you have like every 5-10 seconds the birth effect again till it plays the stand part for another 5-10 sec. and replays the birth effect.. so you would need triggers this or the other way..

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ahh... so the stand animation will still loop even if you set it to non-looping?

As far as I know, yeah, because stand animations are always looping ingame..
every unit is moving some parts while standing, waving with hands or doing anything else.. this would also be paused..
Resulting in some non-acting units.. would seem that they're statues..

Sure the end animations of the Item is, that it stucks in the ground, but you still need to pause the stand animation at that part.
So i think it's not possible the way you want it to be..

Tr!KzZ said:

As far as I know, yeah, because stand animations are always looping ingame..
every unit is moving some parts while standing, waving with hands or doing anything else.. this would also be paused..
Resulting in some non-acting units.. would seem that they're statues..

Sure the end animations of the Item is, that it stucks in the ground, but you still need to pause the stand animation at that part.
So i think it's not possible the way you want it to be..

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ahh... I see...

BTW: tested it... yeah the game really loops it... so its really not possible... ^_^

what's the max duration of an animation? can't you set it to something like 3600000 (1 hour)?

the description reminds me of like,
items dropping in diablo

you should make one for gold

i like your model man!! 5/5
but here is how the trigger should look like...

Really sweet item model, much better than using a chest for weapons.