Disable Animations

[DarkBlueLacky]

I want to disable the alternate stand animations for a few select units.
(i.e. Stand - 2, Stand - 4, etc.; the ones that auto-play when a unit is idle)

The purpose of this is to remove the idle animations from a captain and his swordsman, as I have some special effects and animations on a timer to essentially emulate a training camp.
I just need them to stand there in-between swings.

Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

 

[Fruit Forest]

I want to disable the alternate stand animations for a few select units.
(i.e. Stand - 2, Stand - 4, etc.; the ones that auto-play when a unit is idle)

The purpose of this is to remove the idle animations from a captain and his swordsman, as I have some special effects and animations on a timer to essentially emulate a training camp.
I just need them to stand there in-between swings.

Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

Do you want to make the captain to do periodical animation instead of standing?
If yes, then what animation do you want to do?

 

[DarkBlueLacky]

Do you want to make the captain to do periodical animation instead of standing?
If yes, then what animation do you want to do?

I want to disable the alternate stand animations for a few select units.
(i.e. Stand - 2, Stand - 4, etc.; the ones that auto-play when a unit is idle)

All I want is for the guy to stand there in his basic stand animation with zero alterations.

 

[Fruit Forest]

There is:
You can change timer of looping or/and animation index.

 

[DarkBlueLacky]

There is:
You can change timer of looping or/and animation index.

In that map you have a lot of useless junk in your triggers, and all you're doing is resetting the unit's animation every second.
This will also blatantly interrupt any custom animations I have triggered that last longer than 1 second (pretty much all animations are over a second long)

 

[Fruit Forest]

In that map you have a lot of useless junk in your triggers, and all you're doing is resetting the unit's animation every second.
This will also blatantly interrupt any custom animations I have triggered that last longer than 1 second (pretty much all animations are over a second long)

You asked the captain to do stand-1 anmation, then there is my variant.
EDIT: You can save real, wait 1 sec., then save 0 (trigger wouldn't do animation if you save 0), then do your animation, then again save real, wait 1 sec etc etc

 

[DarkBlueLacky]

You asked the captain to do stand-1 anmation, then there is my variant.
EDIT: You can save real, wait 1 sec., then save 0 (trigger wouldn't do animation if you save 0), then do your animation, then again save real, wait 1 sec etc etc

All that would do is wait 1 second after a unit started the animation? Animations have uneven, unfriendly timers, which is probably why Blizzard added the option to "Queue" animations, however unless there would be an easy way to detect when an animation is done, then there wouldn't be a way to tell whether or not the captain is doing his animations or if he's there idle.

All of this is a poor workaround regardless, whenever a unit is in the stand animation it will cycle through it's other extra stand animations. Worst case scenario I need to edit the models and remove the extra idle animations, however I would really prefer to not have to do that.

 

[Fruit Forest]

Worst case scenario I need to edit the models and remove the extra idle animations, however I would really prefer to not have to do that.

Yeah, no way.

however unless there would be an easy way to detect when an animation

If you want detect, then change periodic event from 1 sec to 0.01, and find action "Set real = real + 1" and change it by "Set real=real + 0.01"
Then determine animation time (Stand-1 takes 1.5 sec.) and go to ORDER trigger
Change "Set real = <Animation Time you want>". Done

 

[DarkBlueLacky]

If you want detect, then change periodic event from 1 sec to 0.01, and find action "Set real = real + 1" and change it by "Set real=real + 0.01"
Then determine animation time (Stand-1 takes 1.5 sec.) and go to ORDER trigger
Change "Set real = <Animation Time you want>". Done

That doesn't detect when the animation is over, it simply sets it to run after a set time equal to the animation, which doesn't help when animations are already queued from outside events.

 

[Fruit Forest]

That doesn't detect when the animation is over, it simply sets it to run after a set time equal to the animation, which doesn't help when animations are already queued from outside events.

It's very sad. Blizzards could add event to detect animation over in the new patch, but they are too busy with FLEAgion and OverCASH.

 

[BloodSoul]

If your units won't move at all, you could simply use the function

call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(Captain, 0)

and insert the correct animation value.

Now, if your units move all the time, and you don't want to use that function. Then, edit the model with Magos' Model Editor and just rename such animations.

Open your model with the Warcraft 3 Model Editor.
Go to:
1) Windows
2) Sequence Manager

Right click an animation that you don't want to see when the unit is idle -> Click Edit -> Rename it to: stand alternate
Do the same for other animations, but just modify a little bit the name of the animation, by adding, for example, "- 2" after the "stand alternate"

The good thing is that you still have the animations with your units, and they will be displayed if you add alternate tag to the units.

NOTE: Of course, I've used the term "alternate" as an example, you could give any other name if you're already using the "alternate" tag.

 

[DarkBlueLacky]

If your units won't move at all, you could simply use the function

call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(Captain, 0)

and insert the correct animation value.

Now, if your units move all the time, and you don't want to use that function. Then, edit the model with Magos' Model Editor and just rename such animations.

Open your model with the Warcraft 3 Model Editor.
Go to:
1) Windows
2) Sequence Manager

Right click an animation that you don't want to see when the unit is idle -> Click Edit -> Rename it to: stand alternate
Do the same for other animations, but just modify a little bit the name of the animation, by adding, for example, "- 2" after the "stand alternate"

The good thing is that you still have the animations with your units, and they will be displayed if you add alternate tag to the units.

NOTE: Of course, I've used the term "alternate" as an example, you could give any other name if you're already using the "alternate" tag.

Thank ya kindly!

 

[Pyrogasm]

Or set animation speed to something like 40% so the animation lasts long enough between shots.