[Solved] Animation problems with Locust units (Mountain King Alternate Animation)

[Uncle]

I was having issues with changing the Mountain King to it's alternate Avatar animation while it had the Locust ability and making it play the alternate animations.

EDIT: Solved, the indexes for the alternate Mountain King animations start at 13. I was using the non-alternate ones and that was causing the hero to reset it's animation.

Here is the working trigger:

• Working
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Create 1 Zeus Dummy for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of (Playable map area)) facing Default building facing degrees
    • Animation - Add the alternate animation tag to (Last created unit)
    • Custom script: call UnitAddAbility( GetLastCreatedUnit(), 'Aloc' )

And these are his Alternate form Indexes for "call SetUnitAnimationByIndex()"
13 - 17 = stand
18 - 19 = attack
20 = walk
21 = death
22 = spell throw
23 = spell slam
24 = dissipate
25 = bash

 

[Pyrogasm]

What about spawning the unit, adding alternate, and THEN giving it locust with a trigger? Normally locust doesn’t show up in the ability list to add it with a trigger but you can do this:

• Custom script: set udg_LOCUST = ‘Aloc’ //this is an ability type variable and can be set once on map init
• Unit - Add LOCUST to (Last created unit)

 

[Uncle]

What about spawning the unit, adding alternate, and THEN giving it locust with a trigger? Normally locust doesn’t show up in the ability list to add it with a trigger but you can do this:

• Custom script: set udg_LOCUST = ‘Aloc’ //this is an ability type variable and can be set once on map init
• Unit - Add LOCUST to (Last created unit)

I tried that method too and found it had the same problem. Both methods works as long as the MK isn't told to play an animation with this action:

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_Dummy, udg_TempInteger)

I just edited the original post, I think it was misleading. My current issue lies solely in trying to get it to play animations without reverting back.

 

[Pyrogasm]

It's possible that the alternate animations are actually different numbers to use with ByIndex. Did you try something like this to see the full range of numbered animations?

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) skips a cinematic sequence
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: call BJDebugMsg("animation #: "+I2S(udg_TempInteger))
    • Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_Dummy, udg_TempInteger)
    • set TempInteger = TempInteger + 1

 

[Uncle]

It's possible that the alternate animations are actually different numbers to use with ByIndex. Did you try something like this to see the full range of numbered animations?

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) skips a cinematic sequence
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: call BJDebugMsg("animation #: "+I2S(udg_TempInteger))
    • Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_Dummy, udg_TempInteger)
    • set TempInteger = TempInteger + 1

I'll try that out and get back to you.

 

[Uncle]

It's possible that the alternate animations are actually different numbers to use with ByIndex. Did you try something like this to see the full range of numbered animations?

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) skips a cinematic sequence
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: call BJDebugMsg("animation #: "+I2S(udg_TempInteger))
    • Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_Dummy, udg_TempInteger)
    • set TempInteger = TempInteger + 1

That did the trick. Thanks! Starting at Index 13 and above are the Mountain King's alternate animations.