How to change attack animation depending on item?

[Lord Mortai]

Say I have 3 weapons:

Sword
Mace
Spear

How to change the Villagerman(55 anims) to use different attack animations With different items equipped?

 

[muzzel]

If you use this one:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...?prev=search=animation%20villager&d=list&r=20
then you can add/remove animation tags (as described in the models description). However there is no spear throw animation...

The other villager (http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...?prev=search=animation%20villager&d=list&r=20) does afaik not have different attackanimations which can be selected using tags (i think you only can run his animations directly via trigger).

 

[Adiktuz]

1) Use animation tags

Pros: Easy to use
Cons: Limited tags

2) Use triggers to play animation

Pros: Can use all animations of the model
Cons: Harder to set-up

 

[Lord Mortai]

Animation tags? Can you explain just a bit more so I can start the Experiment?

 

[Binsu]

You can try reading this out: http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/cat_usersubmit.php?view=32588

Most likely at this part:

The Set Unit Animation by Index Function
Unfortunately but not surprisingly Blizzard forgot to put the Set Unit Animation by Index into GUI. This means you have to use the Custom Script Action. You could also use World Editor Unlimited by Pitzermike which has the Set Unit Animation by Index as an added action.

The function basically allows you to play ANY specific animation for a unit. It doesn’t take into account any strings or “rare” and “common” values, it just takes into account an Integer which is the number of the animation. The problem many people have with this function is that the order of the animations is NOT the same as the order in the Model Viewer inbuilt into WE. This is because the WE viewer automatically re-arranges the animations into the “stand”, “walk”, “attack”, “death”, “decay”, “dissipate”, “morph” and “birth” order.
In order to determine which Index to use, you can use Warcraft 3 Viewer. Open the model in Warcraft 3 Viewer and open the Treeview Window (CTRL + H). In the Animation section you will see the various animations, the order in which they are in is the same as the Integer you would use.

This mostly: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/triggers-scripts-269/play-specific-unit-animation-193240/

Adiktuz answered it.

 

[Adiktuz]

Animation tags, like

Lumber
Gold
Alternate

I believe peasant has a set of - Gold and - Lumber animations

Illidan's Metamorphosized form uses the same illidan model, but adds the Alternate tag