How to make an object rotate vertically

[creyzi4zb12]

Since it's particularly easy to rotate an object horizontally by making it face a certain point or unit.
How do you make a unit rotate vertically, to make it appear as tho' it is tumbling from head to toe?

Thanks in advance to all guys who knows triggers!!

 

[GhostWolf]

The short answer would be: you can't.
The long answer will be that you can either use a model with animation keys with that rotation (there is one already that someone made, don't know where it can be found), or flip it in any model editor.

In any case, you can't rotate it while expecting it to preform animations (unless you take every animation key and make 360 keys for the rotation which will frankly make your model huuuuuge).

 

[Day-Elven]

native CreateUnit takes only polar facing that uses degrees, so you can't create unit with Z facing.
I think you need to replace units.

 

[creyzi4zb12]

Hmmm...does that mean that the units in WorldEditor can only rotate from left to right, or back to front, and cannot do a flip or backflip?

 

[Day-Elven]

Yes.

 

[creyzi4zb12]

But I thought you could make the (fixed rotation) or (maximum pitch angle/degree) of an object to negative in the object editor?
Is there no trigger that changes these rotations?

 

[Eleandor]

In the world editor you can set pitch and roll angle to a negative value to rotate around X or Y axis. In-game you can't do it afaik.

 

[creyzi4zb12]

Ah..k...tnx...It's solved now. I was gonna make an effect where the unit flies while rotating from head to toe, but I changed my mind...I dunno how to use the model editor..

 

[Element of Water]

Can't you do it by making a unit "face" a flying unit?

 

[creyzi4zb12]

Hmmm..u do have a point there....so all I gotta do is make invisible flying units in the person by using point with polar offset....and make the unit face those invisible units....but ayayay!! that'd be a headache!!

 

[Day-Elven]

Can't you do it by making a unit "face" a flying unit?

I don't think that it'll make Z facing for him. It'll just face him towards X and Y locations of flying unit.

 

[Element of Water]

Oh ok...

 

[Justify]

There are two possibilitys and GhostWolfs post contains them BOTH -.-
The first one is using a model that has a rotation animation, attach the sfx to it and rotate it. The other one is very stupid. You could create ~25 units in the OE, all with different pitch-angles and create/remove them so fast that it looks like it's rotating :/