Make a unit play only 1 "stand" animation

[DaneTheBeast]

I want to make units only play 1 animation while standing (stand) and not use Stand - 2 , Stand -3 , Stand - 4.
Every other animations stays untouched. How do I do this?

 

[Ezekiel12]

Safest is to remove the animations via model editing.

You could also run timers with the length of the stand animation and play it with SetUnitAnimationByIndex repeatedly if the unit has currently no order. But this might lead to visual glitches depending on your map.

 

[DaneTheBeast]

Safest is to remove the animations via model editing.

Does that mean that I will have to import the new model after editing it.

 

[moyackx]

yes, this will avoid to make a trigger that will have many chances of bugging. And removing animations from a model with MDLVIS is quite easy.

 

[DaneTheBeast]

Ok, so I loaded the Archer model, deleted 4 Stand animations, only 1 stand animation is left. Now I have to import the mdx in the WE to use it in my map?

The reason I wanted to remove the animation(s) is to remove the strains that happen when there are 100 of the same units at one place. Won't this importing of these 100 new models negate that goal

 

[Chucky]

First, yes now you have to import the MDX into WE.
Second, let me get this straight: You thought that if you place 100 units that have only 1 stand animation if would not put so much strain on the computer as if you had 100 units with more stand animations ? If so, it doesn't matter really.

 

[DaneTheBeast]

Alright then. I won't do it. Thanks for the info Chucky

 

[Arad MNK]

You don't have to delete the animations. Just use: SetUnitAnimationByIndex(myUnit, myAnimationNumberInMDLvis)

Just note that the animation indexes start with 0.

 

[DaneTheBeast]

Will that then involve JASS? I am not at all familiar with it, but I will look into it. Thanks.

 

[Arad MNK]

JASS? Yes, it's JASS, but it's only a single line and it's easily usable in GUI as well in a custom script.