Attack speed animation

[Aramiltaru]

I don't know if it's possible but I want to be able to change a unit's attack speed in-game without changing it's animation speed. The idea is that a hero's attack speed is based completely on the type of weapon s/he has equipped. I tried using the GUI action that changes a unit's animation speed and it worked on everything save the attack animation. In summary I suppose what I'm wanting to do is change a unit's attack cooldown rather than attack speed. At then end of the day it's a cosmetic issue, since I can easily change the unit's attack speed to match the weapon type, but it seems like a big ugly one to me. Any ideas? (using multiple unit types is out)

 

[manstie]

Not possible.

 

[Thyrael]

It is possible until the length of the attackanimations is smaller than the attack interval. F.e. your attackanimation has a duration of 1 second. The damagepoint of your units attack is set to 0.500 seconds. And the attack interval is set to 5 seconds. That means your unit will attack every 5 seconds. If you set your attackintervall to 1 second the unit will attack every second without changing the animation speed. If your attackinterval becomes smaller than 1 second the unit attacks faster and increases its animationspeed. If your attackinterval becomes smaller than the duration of its damagepoint, animationerrors will occur and the animations get cut.

 

[Aramiltaru]

The problem is that the animations become incredibly slow when equipping a slow attack weapon like a staff, not that they are too fast. I'm thinking I may be able to change the base cooldown and work off of a higher base. The goal is that the attack animation runs fairly close to 100% speed (ideally at 100%) and then there is a longer duration of stand/stand ready animation between attacks that are slower and occur less often