How do you play a unit animation with a long name

[WorldMapper]

How do you make an ability play animations like the one shown above?

In the Art - Animation names of the object editor, I've tried to put

Spell Slam - 6 as one line

and

Spell
Slam
-
6

Separately as four lines. Neither of them works.

 

[KILLCIDE]

Not sure how picky the data field is, but I'm pretty sure "spell,slam,6" is the way to do it, so no hyphen. However, something tells me that the "6" won't register and it will just play "spell,slam", whatever that may be. I don't tinker around with object editor data fields often if you really want to have control over what animation is played, you can always trigger it using SetUnitAnimationByIndex().

 

[WorldMapper]

Not sure how picky the data field is, but I'm pretty sure "spell,slam,6" is the way to do it, so no hyphen. However, something tells me that the "6" won't register and it will just play "spell,slam", whatever that may be. I don't tinker around with object editor data fields often if you really want to have control over what animation is played, you can always trigger it using SetUnitAnimationByIndex().

This is a channel based ability though.. so triggering won't work in this case unless if I base it off another ability. Trying to avoid that unless absolutely necessary

 

[KILLCIDE]

I only offered the trigger solution because it gives you way more freedom. Did you try the first suggestion I gave you?

 

[WorldMapper]

I only offered the trigger solution because it gives you way more freedom. Did you try the first suggestion I gave you?

Nope, doesn't work. It rotates through all of spell slam animations.

 

[Skargoth]

You have to use SetUnitAnimationByIndex and use a different base ability or edit the model.

 

[Warseeker]

If you don't know with triggers, then try to edit the model with Magos--->Sequence Material and remove the index 6 and save it.

 

[Acutesharpness]

You have to manually use the SetUnitAnimationByIndex via custom script in the GUI, from 0 to whatever the end is.

 

[streetpunk]

Abilities based on channel can be animation-triggered, you need to:

• Unit - Pause Unit
• Animation - Play unit animation
• Unit - Unpause Unit

You can also replace the normal "Animation" action with the custom script: "SetUnitAnimationByIndex"

 

[Skargoth]

Abilities based on channel can be animation-triggered, you need to:

• Unit - Pause Unit
• Animation - Play unit animation
• Unit - Unpause Unit

You can also replace the normal "Animation" action with the custom script: "SetUnitAnimationByIndex"

This doesn't work with SetUnitAnimationByIndex.

 

[streetpunk]

I'm actually using this exact same thing in my map

• Unit - Pause MyUnit
• Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_MyUnit, 1)
• Unit - Unpause MyUnit

I think you need to set the unit's Art - Animation Backswing and Art - Cast Point both to 0 (on the unit data in object editor) But I'm not sure if it's strictly necessary for it to work!

 

[Skargoth]

Hmmm, I just tested this again and it worked. Not sure what the issue was that I had with it. I probably mixed something up. You are correct about having to edit those data fields though if you intend to use this as a cast animation, because an unpaused unit will resume its last order and that makes the "on cast" event unusable.