Animation Names (not playing animation even with a trigger)

[PrisonLove]

Okay so I'm trying to make it so that when a unit uses (poisonarrows) it plays its "Spell - Throw" animation. I've made a trigger but it will randomly play one of the unit's three spell animations instead of the Spell - Throw animation only. Does anybody know why this is?


Here's the trigger but I don't think the problem is trigger related.

• corrputing arrows animation
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Attacking unit)) Equal to Deadeye
    • CorruptingArrowsBoolean Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Animation - Play (Attacking unit)'s Spell - Throw animation

and yes, the Boolean is set appropriately when certain events happen.

 

[Child_0f_Bodom]

You don't have to do a trigger for this. Just set it in your spell's Art-Animation Names (first field in normal WE) two strings: spell and throw.

 

[xXMephistoXx]

And, just so you know. Animation names are separated by a comma, not a line...
Bad: "Spell - Throw"
Good: "Spell, throw"

But as the Child of Bodom has said, on the top in objekt editor, you can set animation names (note: There, they are separated as being different strings..)

 

[PrisonLove]

not the animation names dont work for poison arrows because its an autocast spell. if you manually cast it it works but on autocast it just uses the attacks animations.

and separating them with a comma does not work at all, the unit plays no animation in that case. even without the hyphon it still plays a random spell animation

 

[InfiniteSeven]

Its supposed to work with strings such as "spell,throw", "attack,slam" etc. If that doesn't work most likely scenario is the unit you're using does not have that animation.

 

[PrisonLove]

it has that animation but i did put a space after the comma so ill try it out and see

Edit: tried, it doesn't work. It has the animation because when i view the unit i can see that it has Spell - Throw animation

 

[MeKC]

It because it just randomly play all animatuin that starts with "spells. Its the sames as the stand or attack animations. But with a jass script you can make sure it play 100% the animation you want:

call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_unit,12)

Replace udg_unit with your unit
Rel,ace 12 with any number from 0 - x undtil your find your animation

 

[PrisonLove]

Thank you MekC that was genius and it worked wonderfully.

 

[Sephalo]

Thank you MekC that was genius and it worked wonderfully.

So which number (between 1 and 12) was it?
I'm using the same IMBA model and I had the same problem

 

[PrisonLove]

it was number 9