Animating attachments

[-Peper-]

I been running to a small problem each time.
Is there a way to animate an attachment? Or it can only play it stand animation?
Or should i making a dummy that locusted and sticked?
Thanks!
Example : Lightsaber that play it's birth animation when it's ability activated or a hero, attached to the mount of horse that play his attack animation instead horse's.

 

[-Peper-]

BUMPing this up.

 

[-Peper-]

B u m p

 

[Weep]

An attached effect can also play the birth and death animation if it's done via adding/removing a buff with visible effect, even one like Immolation that doesn't really add a buff to the caster. There's no way to play an arbitrary effect's animation (like attack).

 

[-Peper-]

So adding and removing only plays birth/death animation?
And no way to play other animation?

 

[Raven0]

So adding and removing only plays birth/death animation?
And no way to play other animation?

The effect object type doesn't have methods that handle other animations. You could try opening the attachments in magos and re-naming the animation you want to the birth or death anim.

 

[GhostThruster]

The best thing you can do is add tags like 'alternate'. This will also change the anims of attachments.

 

[-Peper-]

I see, how about an dummy unit that locusted, and sticked every 0.04 seconds?

 

[PurgeandFire]

If you use a dummy unit with that model, then yes, it will work. (by that, I mean for you to make sure that you set the dummy unit's actual model in the object editor to the effect) You can basically set that dummy's animations the way you would normally and it should work fine.

 

[-Peper-]

Oh thanks.

 

[Matarael]

For lightsabers, I know that many models come with both activated and deactivated versions. So you could probably make an item with the ability which uses a sfx model activated for when it's turned on, and use the deactivated model for the sfx attachment when its turned off.

 

[-Peper-]

Yeah, i know that, so when the item ability is used the lightsaber will play it's turned on animation.