Looping Animations

[Dumblor]

I am making a map , where player character is controlled by Arrow Keys (on keyboard). I need to make that animation loops , while pressing Up Arrow. Here's what I do :

• FowardStart
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Presses the Up Arrow key
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Trigger - Turn on Foward <gen>
    • Animation - Play Shaman 0026 <gen>'s walk animation
    • Animation - Queue Shaman 0026 <gen>'s walk animation

• Foward
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.01 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Move Shaman 0026 <gen> instantly to ((Position of Shaman 0026 <gen>) offset by 2.00 towards (Facing of Shaman 0026 <gen>) degrees)
    • Animation - Play Shaman 0026 <gen>'s walk animation

It sucks because it stops at the middle of animation. So how should I make/fix this trigger huh ?
(it moves as it should , but it doesn't play animations)

 

[-JonNny]

Uhm first of all , you know sth about leaks?
u would create each 0.01 sec a leak bc of " ((Position of Shaman 0026 <gen>) offset by 2.00 towards (Facing of Shaman 0026 <gen>) degrees)"

Maybe do not move the unit per trigger - order it to move to the new position , i think thats better because all effects like stun and slow would be disabled with the trigger movement

Try sth like this

local location loc1 = GetUnitLoc(YourUnit)
local location loc2 = PolarProjectionBJ(loc1), 2.00, GetUnitFacing(YourUnit))
call IssuePointOrderLocBJ( YourUnit, "move", loc2)
call RemoveLocation(loc1)
call RemoveLocation(loc2)

 

[DenZel94]

Maybe when the player holds it, he will try to move, then when he releases it, the unit will stop..

 

[PurplePoot]

Uhm first of all , you know sth about leaks?
u would create each 0.01 sec a leak bc of " ((Position of Shaman 0026 <gen>) offset by 2.00 towards (Facing of Shaman 0026 <gen>) degrees)"

Maybe do not move the unit per trigger - order it to move to the new position , i think thats better because all effects like stun and slow would be disabled with the trigger movement

Try sth like this

local location loc1 = GetUnitLoc(YourUnit)
local location loc2 = PolarProjectionBJ(loc1), 2.00, GetUnitFacing(YourUnit))
call IssuePointOrderLocBJ( YourUnit, "move", loc2)
call RemoveLocation(loc1)
call RemoveLocation(loc2)

local real a = GetUnitFacing(YourUnit) * bj_DEGTORAD
call SetUnitX( YourUnit, GetUnitX(YourUnit) + 2 * Cos(a) )
call SetUnitY( YourUnit, GetUnitY(YourUnit) + 2 * Sin(a) )

SetUnitX/Y don't interrupt orders or anything else of the like.

 

[Dumblor]

A would ask ... NO JASS PLEASE

 

[PurplePoot]

SetUnitX/Y don't exist in GUI

Howabout this?

• Pie
• Events
• Conditions
• Actions
  • Custom script: local real a = GetUnitFacing(someone) * bj_DEGTORAD
  • ---- stuff happens here ----
  • Custom script: call SetUnitX( someone, GetUnitX(someone) + 2 * Cos( a ) )
  • Custom script: call SetUnitY( someone, GetUnitY(someone) + 2 * Sin( a ) )

 

[Dumblor]

So I can't make animation loop without any scripts or JASS ?

 

[Rui]

I doubt you need an Every 0.01 seconds of the game event if you're only calling the trigger.

 

[-JonNny]

You could look which duration the animation has and then repeat it each time that it looks like a normal loop
But i think using the blizzard movement is the best way!
"SetUnitX/Y" does not interrupt the unit which could be abuse too . For example u could move while channeling a spell...
Or maybe just look in the spell section im sure there are MANY movement systems

 

[PurplePoot]

No, Dumblor, you just can't have a non-order-terminating "move" action without SetUnitX/Y, which are JASS

and true, johnny, then he could always use SetUnitPosition.

using blizzard "move" every .01 seconds would look awful, far as I remember (continually would reset the animation)

 

[-JonNny]

maybe if you use it every 0.01 seconds but i found many things in the spell section (e.g. this one http://hiveworkshop.com/resources_new/spells/682/ ) which look quite good and are made with blizzards movement

 

[Dumblor]

Well , I guess I'll have to use that system -JonNy told about. Thanks anyway !