How does BlzSpecialEffectAddSubAnimation actually work?

[Ivorywinter]

I've tried putting it before BlzPlaySpecialEffect, after, before with a delay, just by itself, and together with BlzSpecialEffectRemoveSubAnimation, to no avail. I'm trying to play Stand Ready and Attack Slam, specifically. The effects simply play their regular stand/attack animation.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Did you try making it play an animation called "stand,ready" or "attack,slam"? As I remember you can write out the whole animation like that and it should work instead of having to use sub-animations.

 

[Ivorywinter]

The new natives use also-new natives called animtypes and subanimtypes, so for "stand,ready" I have to write BlzPlaySpecialEffect(sfx, ANIM_TYPE_STAND) and BlzAddSpecialEffectSubAnimation(sfx, SUBANIM_TYPE_READY) separately. That's what I believe, at least. Using just the subanimation function doesn't do anything for me and I can't find an animtype specific enough for what I need.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Ah, then what I suggested has no relevance to this issue. Good to know they introduced some new types.