How to solve this?

[Shadow Fury]

Basically, I'm creating a skill called Hyperspeed where all units in the map move very slowly and only my hero moves very quickly. I managed to create the spell successfully but I've encountered one damn problem. Whenever my hero kills a unit during Hyperspeed, it plays its death animation slowly (nothing abnormal) yet after it finishes its "Death Time", the unit immediately turns into a decaying flesh. I set the animation speed to 2.5% and paused the units just to let you know the mechanics behind the spell.

So how do I let these units not turn instantly into a flesh but simply wait till the end of Hyperspeed? It lasts 15 seconds and I do not want to alter the Death Time of any unit.

No JASS functions please, I know nothing about them.

 

[RobertMKD]

The dying animation is slowed and it lasts longer, while the dying time is the same, thats the problem right?
Can you tell me what did you used to slow the units?

 

[Daffa]

Reset it's animation to 100% upon death.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try altering the game speed to achieve the effect you want. That may or may not work well.

Reset it's animation to 100% upon death.

Except he wants it to be slow because time itself is meant to have slowed. Having the animation run at full speed would ruin the visual effect of the ability.

In SC2 one would do this by giving all units a time modification to slow them down or by slowing game speed down and giving your unit a time modification to speed it up.

 

[Flux]

Since, you do not want to alter the unit's death time, then I suggest when a unit dies, immediately Hide it from the game and create another unit with the same unit type id but add Locust 'Aloc' to it and play its death animation.

However this can be a problem when a hero dies because another icon will appear in the top left when a new hero is created. I suggest you create a dummy unit for each hero.

 

[Shadow Fury]

The dying animation is slowed and it lasts longer, while the dying time is the same, thats the problem right?
Can you tell me what did you used to slow the units?

I told you. I slowed the units by setting their animation to 2.5% and pausing them.

Reset it's animation to 100% upon death.

I already did that!

Try altering the game speed to achieve the effect you want. That may or may not work well.

That would slow down my hero as well.

Since, you do not want to alter the unit's death time, then I suggest when a unit dies, immediately Hide it from the game and create another unit with the same unit type id but add Locust 'Aloc' to it and play its death animation.

However this can be a problem when a hero dies because another icon will appear in the top left when a new hero is created. I suggest you create a dummy unit for each hero.

I had already thought about doing this but there is just one tiny problem... you cannot add the Locust skill to any unit by triggers :/

 

[Ceday]

You can, create an "ability" type variable with name Locust, and in some trigger like this:

• Events
  • Map Initilialization
• Conditions:
• Actions
  • Custom script: set udg_Locust = 'Aloc'
  • Now you can use this variable
  • Unit - Add Locust to someUnit

 

[Shadow Fury]

You can, create an "ability" type variable with name Locust, and in some trigger like this:

• Events
  • Map Initilialization
• Conditions:
• Actions
  • Custom script: set udg_Locust = 'Aloc'
  • Now you can use this variable
  • Unit - Add Locust to someUnit

Yeah that works! Thanks a lot!

 

[Flux]

but add Locust 'Aloc' to it and play its death animation.

I already mentioned the ability code in my previous post. Sorry I wasn't obvious enough.
So how did you solved for the hero part? you created another hero?The Hero Icon is shown right?

 

[Shadow Fury]

I already mentioned the ability code in my previous post. Sorry I wasn't obvious enough.
So how did you solved for the hero part? you created another hero?The Hero Icon is shown right?

Uhm basically I decided not to apply this damn method of locust because then it was too hard to let the dummy units decay. I had to give up and increase the Death Time of all units.

 

[Flux]

Uhm basically I decided not to apply this damn method of locust because then it was too hard to let the dummy units decay. I had to give up and increase the Death Time of all units.

Ahh ok. Yeah I think this is the best and easiest solution. I wonder why didn't you do that in the first place.

 

[Shadow Fury]

That was the last resort, the forlorn hope you know. I even obtained a more realistic effect by doing so because clearly when someone dies, he doesn't decay after 2 seconds so increasing the Death Time gives more realism to my RPG.
At least now I know how to add Locust to a unit thanks to Ceday.