Dying/Resurrecting

[Avator]

I have a bunch of Hero units (skins of Demon Hunter, Mountain King, etc.) and when they die, like every hero normally does, they leave a corpse, become a spirit and float into thin air.

My first question is: How can I make sure that when a unit dies, he falls on the ground, leaves a corpse, the corpse stays in the ground (selectable, but not attackable), but the spirit will still go up in the air?

Second question: How can I do thesame backwards when using a resurrecting ability or item? (so a spirit coming out of the air, into the corpse and the corpse stands up again as the unit it was before it died)

 

[Epimeliad]

hmmm...i not too sure about the selectable part, but if want the corpse to remain there all u need to do is to check the part that corpse do not decay in the object editor.
a harder way is to use triggers to replace the unit with a dummy corpse of the hero.

 

[redscores]

Well, you want to copy Age of Myth, the stuff you want is easy, simply if the unit dies revive it instantly at the point where it died, pause the unit, play the death animation with 10000% faster animation speed and then set the animation speed to 0%, then do the stuff with the whisp. It will lay on the ground like death.

 

[Avator]

It worked! Thanks mate.
The only problem now is that I don't know how to insert the part with the whisp going up in the air. Can you show me the trigger to activate that animation?

 

[dakiato]

Isnt there some special effect of the spirit? Something like this i think

Event - a unit dies

Condition - Unit equal to (hero)

Action - Create special effect above units head (special effect here)

 

[Avator]

I've checked every single special effect, and I can't find anything that makes the "soul" fly.

The good part is that I now managed to make a trigger for the second problem I had (resurrecting), except for the part where the soul come back in the body. If I can get that, I think I can finish both triggers and post them somewhere, so everybody can use them.

(It's a real nifty looking trigger )

 

[redscores]

Add and remove crowform from medivh and adjust the flying height of the whisp with the flying height trigger under animations.

 

[Avator]

No, I mean when a hero dies, you see his spirit/soul/ghost/whisp or whatever you want to call it, go up into the air and disappears.
I want to know how to activate that in a trigger, then I can use that in my triggers for Dying units and Resurrecting units.

 

[Eleandor]

It's an animation on the model. To activate it with a trigger, you'll have to use a trigger like

Animation - set unit animation to "dissipate"

or something like that. I'm not sure what exactly the animation is called.

 

[redscores]

Avator... that animation got only on-board hero models from wc3, you need to do it with a dummy model if the model is not a on-board hero model, create a dummy whisp with locust and invulnerable on the units position, add and remove crowform, set the height to 200 or whatever over 1 second and then remove the whisp.

 

[Avator]

Can you send me a trigger of that, please?