Help with animation

[anman]

Hey i am making a spike ball on a chain, i need it to have an animation like pudge's hook from dota i have tryed to do this myself but cannot get it to work
i tryed setting it behind the lines then bringing it in didnt work
i tryed deleting links of that chain then i realised it deletes it for all frames

so if anyone would help me do this.
or do it for me ill hapily send it to ya...

btw i have done the model in milkshape

 

[BlinkBoy]

pudge's hook in dota is made with jass. that effect is better to leave it to triggerers.

 

[anman]

i still need the animation before it can be used in a trigger...

 

[BlinkBoy]

you want it to be exactly like it? then you'll have to create lots of chain links and make the appear as you move the ball.

 

[anman]

Thats what i have done but i dont know how to animate it like pudges hook

:edit k let me rephrase this

"i have made the model but i dont know how to hide some of the links whilest it plays the animation then as it goes to next frame it moves along and unhides 1 of the links like pudges hook"

 

[BlinkBoy]

I don't know how it's done in milkshape, yet you need to use No-Interpolation visibility anims for each chain link.