[Spell] GUI Animation doesn't go off

[Sephy]

I feel like this is sort of a noob-question, but I'm clueless on how to solve it.

• Jump Timer Player 1
  • Events
    • Time - JumpTimerPlayer1 expires
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Pause on Sportler1
    • Unit - Hide Sportler1
    • Unit - Create 1 Sportler (flying) for Player 1 (Red) at (Position of Sportler1) facing (Facing of Sportler1) degrees
    • Set SportlerDummy[1] = (Last created unit)
    • Animation - Play SportlerDummy[1]'s stand 3 animation
    • Selection - Select SportlerDummy[1] for Player 1 (Red)
    • Trigger - Turn on Jump Player 1 up <gen>
    • Trigger - Turn on Jump Player 1 forw <gen>

The model I'm using is the standard warcraft 3 Forest Troll, due to his backflip animation. The animation preview on the left shows me, that the backflip's name should be "Stand - 3", but it doesn't work. Ingame, the unit always just does a random one of the 3 stand animations, but I need exactly that stand 3 animation. I've already tried phrasing it "stand", "stand 3", "Stand3", "Stand - 3", "Stand -3" and so forth instead, but it just won't work. Not even "Walk", "Walk 1" or "Walk - 1" works, only "attack", "spell" and "death".

I've discovered the "Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(unit, index)", but can't really figure out how to use it with the "SportlerDummy" Array, but even if I change it to "SportlerDummy1" without array (which means more work for me), I still can't figure out what the hell the "index" is.

I got that it is some sort of Integer, but the trigger gets an error when I fill in one of my integer variables (like ... "call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(SportlerDummy1, AnimationInteger). It also doesn't work, when I just fill in a number ("call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(SportlerDummy1, 3).

What am I doing wrong and how exactly does the "index" here work?

 

[IcemanBo]

Play animation should play it once. "stand - 3" should have worked.

call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(SportlerDummy1, 3)

^with this function you can loop an animation. Though your syntax is wrong, that's the right one:

call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_SportlerDummy[1], 3)

^GUI variables need an udg_ prefix when used in JASS (custom script). And the array index is defined in such brackets [].

 

[pOke]

No guanrantee the index is 3, start at 0 and keep going until you find the one you want.

 

[Sephy]

^GUI variables need an udg_ prefix when used in JASS (custom script). And the array index is defined in such brackets [].

Ah that is interesting, I've always been wondering what the "udg_" means in my "call RemoveLocation" scripts.

Animation - Play SportlerDummy[1]'s stand - 3 animation
does definitely not work, for whatever reason.

No guanrantee the index is 3, start at 0 and keep going until you find the one you want.

Correct, "call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_SportlerDummy[1], 3)" triggers the spell animation. The stand - 3 animation is on ", 2)".

Problem solved.

 

[KILLCIDE]

I've always been wondering what the "udg_" means in my "call RemoveLocation" scripts.

udg stands for user defined global.