Building dies after way to long time

[doske]

I want to use doodads as the art model of a building. But every time i do that, the building has no death animation and will continue to live for about 36 seconds after its beeing killed. I already tryed to set the "death time" to a very low digid, but it does not help. Is there any easy fix to that?

thank you in advance!

 

[Chaosium]

That's an issue with models that have no animation as you've guessed, the easiest way would be to create a death animation for said doodad, I'm sure that's something you can request here

 

[Uncle]

I want to use doodads as the art model of a building. But every time i do that, the building has no death animation and will continue to live for about 36 seconds after its beeing killed. I already tryed to set the "death time" to a very low digid, but it does not help. Is there any easy fix to that?

thank you in advance!

Hello, if models don't have a Death animation then you're going to experience the issue you described:

^ Note how the previewer on the left doesn't show any animations. Normally you can view Stand, Death, Attack, etc.

The solution is to either modify the model in a 3d modeling program to give it a Death animation.

Or trigger the death animation yourself:

• Basic Death Animation
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Dies
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Farm
  • Actions
    • -------- Create an explosion effect: --------
    • Set VariableSet Anim_Point = (Position of (Triggering unit))
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect at Anim_Point using Objects\Spawnmodels\Other\NeutralBuildingExplosion\NeutralBuildingExplosion.mdl
    • Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_Anim_Point )
    • -------- --------
    • -------- Remove the building from the game: --------
    • Unit - Remove (Triggering unit) from the game

I attached a map with that trigger in it. I also added an Advanced trigger that makes the Building sink into the ground if you'd like to use that. Just remember to update the Unit-Type check to ensure that it matches your own Unit or Units:

• Conditions
  • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Farm <-----

There's some extra stuff in the Advanced Death Animation trigger that you will have to modify to fit your needs:

• -------- Create a Special Effect that mimics your Unit: --------
• Special Effect - Create a special effect at Anim_Point using Doodads\Village\Structures\VillageBuilding\VillageBuilding0.mdl
• -------- --------
• -------- Modify the duration of the death animation, the rate at which it falls over, and the scale + facing direction of the Special Effect: --------
• Set VariableSet Anim_Duration[Anim_Index] = 2.00
• Set VariableSet Anim_Fall_Rate[Anim_Index] = 6.00
• Special Effect - Set Scale of Anim_Effect[Anim_Index] to 1.00
• Special Effect - Set Yaw of Anim_Effect[Anim_Index] to: (Radians(270.00))

Lastly, don't forget to Enable JassHelper in the Trigger Editor if you haven't already, otherwise you'll get errors:

 

[doske]

Hello, if models don't have a Death animation then you're going to experience the issue you described:
View attachment 469289
^ Note how the previewer on the left doesn't show any animations. Normally you can view Stand, Death, Attack, etc.

The solution is to either modify the model in a 3d modeling program to give it a Death animation.

Or trigger the death animation yourself:

• Basic Death Animation
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Dies
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Farm
  • Actions
    • -------- Create an explosion effect: --------
    • Set VariableSet Anim_Point = (Position of (Triggering unit))
    • Special Effect - Create a special effect at Anim_Point using Objects\Spawnmodels\Other\NeutralBuildingExplosion\NeutralBuildingExplosion.mdl
    • Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_Anim_Point )
    • -------- --------
    • -------- Remove the building from the game: --------
    • Unit - Remove (Triggering unit) from the game

I attached a map with that trigger in it. I also added an Advanced trigger that makes the Building sink into the ground if you'd like to use that. Just remember to update the Unit-Type check to ensure that it matches your own Unit or Units:

• Conditions
  • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Farm <-----

There's some extra stuff in the Advanced Death Animation trigger that you will have to modify to fit your needs:

• -------- Create a Special Effect that mimics your Unit: --------
• Special Effect - Create a special effect at Anim_Point using Doodads\Village\Structures\VillageBuilding\VillageBuilding0.mdl
• -------- --------
• -------- Modify the duration of the death animation, the rate at which it falls over, and the scale + facing direction of the Special Effect: --------
• Set VariableSet Anim_Duration[Anim_Index] = 2.00
• Set VariableSet Anim_Fall_Rate[Anim_Index] = 6.00
• Special Effect - Set Scale of Anim_Effect[Anim_Index] to 1.00
• Special Effect - Set Yaw of Anim_Effect[Anim_Index] to: (Radians(270.00))

Lastly, don't forget to Enable JassHelper in the Trigger Editor if you haven't already, otherwise you'll get errors:
View attachment 469292

Thank worked! Thank you so much!