Creating fresh, walkable unit corpses...

[Pr0nogo]

[RESOLVED] Creating fresh, walkable unit corpses...

I need to create unit corpses (like, death animation corpses) for a Founding of Durotar-like campaign I'm making. In the bonus campaign, during the scene where Rexxar goes in Thrall's place to the meeting with the humans, there are a few human corpses set up after the battle, further to the north. A similar thing is viewable a little later, when you're on your way to destroy the human encampment. These corpses are walkable, so they might be doodads; but, when I create doodads that use the models of the units I want killed and order them (through triggers) to play their death animations, they only play the animations when I gain vision of them.

Here's an example video of what happens, in case my wording isn't clear enough.

As you can see, the doodad plays the animation only when the player gets in viewing range. I want the animations set and done when I order the trigger. Oh, and no, I can not settle for fleshy/skeletal corpses.

Any tips?

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Issue RESOLVED, thanks to Whitewolf8 and Adiktuz.

 

[Adiktuz]

That's normal and a hardcoded thing...

what you can do is either make it a destructable without pathing (coz I think dests can have a "dead" version) or export the model, open it using Magos model editor, and switch the death and stand animations then reimport model and use it instead of the original one for ur doodad...

or you can also trigger it such that there will be a visibility modifier on that region when you order it to play its death animation... then destroy it afterwards...

 

[Pr0nogo]

The destructible method, assuming it works, would be best. I'll look into that.

Otherwise, I'll have to open it with Magus.

Thanks for the assist, although if anyone else knows more on the topic, please let me know.

 

[Whitewolf8]

Or you could create a corpse, or permanent corpse, via Triggers - Units - Create (Permanent) Corpse, it should work that way, good luck~

 

[Pr0nogo]

Only works with fleshy and skeletal ones. Please read my post, otherwise you won't be very helpful at all. Thanks for trying, I guess.

 

[rcshaggy]

Interesting and is it a altered Warcraft campaign you are doing?

 

[Pr0nogo]

I'm making a campaign based around the Ogre you see there, but the viewpoint may change to allow the player to control other heroes or groups of heroes. One of the Ogre's allies will be a Dark Troll; another will be a Fel Tauren. There's going to be a lot of chaos and demonic influence here, but the plot isn't final; we'll see where it goes.

 

[WaterKnight]

It does not matter when the unit has a high animation speed with Unit - Change Unit Animation Speed.

 

[Pr0nogo]

But units cannot be traversed over; they are not walkable, and they are selectable. Even if I were to change the collision size to zero or something, I wanted a non-selectable, walkable object that doesn't light up as a unit when you mouse over it. It should look and act like a piece of scenery, not something I crammed into the game at the last minute.

 

[WaterKnight]

Changing the animation does not alter the type. I said take a corpse, suspend decay and make it play death animation with hyper speed, so it will still have all features of a corpse and rest there with endparameters of death sequence.

 

[Whitewolf8]

If you add the 'Locust' ability to it it won't be selectable~
And to fix the collisions you could probably set the move type to 'None' or 'Flying'

 

[Adiktuz]

Locust + movement type of none...

 

[LordBacon]

maybe taking a crate or barrel changing the model to what you want then just setting health to zero once placed

 

[Pr0nogo]

Thanks to Whitewolf8 and Adiktuz, I managed to get this issue resolved. I meant to post that a while ago, but it must have slipped my mind. This topic can be closed.

Thanks!