how do you make units play their animations backwards?

[GoGoTauren]

specifically walk animations. I've seen it done in camera movement systems where they can walk backwards...

 

[PurgeandFire]

You can't really do that, but you can create some sort of illusion maybe by using:

• Animation - Change <UNIT>'s animation speed to % of its original speed

But that's about it. They must've either had some sort of illusion effect from the function above, or they had a custom animation. You can't really play it back backwards as far as I know.

 

[MYHummeR]

It can be done, the Tauren in DotA has a spell that shows this...

 

[GoGoTauren]

ah i guess i'll just do without... thanks anyways

 

[Ironside]

It can be done, the Tauren in DotA has a spell that shows this...

Earth Shaker or Tauren Chieften ?

 

[GoGoTauren]

or barathrum?

 

[Bribe]

Is it physically walking backwards (changing its position on the map) or is it standing in place?

My guess is it's physically walking backwards, which in scripting terms is not literal. It's most likely a slow version of a knockback effect on the Tauren while playing its walk animation slowly.

 

[Ironside]

None in DotA walk backwards, expecialy not barathrum. He stands still and plays a fast version of walk animation, then charges into the enemy and so on...

 

[Bribe]

I haven't played DotA since 2006 so the game wasn't this cool when I was playing it. It was rather vanilla, tbh.

 

[konjured1103]

Make unit face backward then change the turn speed of that unit to a longer one!

 

[swipe5weep]

I think he wants something that will create a moonwalk effect..
i think locking body parts can help a little.
but its not that all try..
ill try to contact icefrog for that trick