Make unit play walk animation

[SAUS]

I'm building a custom spell where a large beetle charges forward, knocking back enemies in the way and stunning himself if he runs into a wall.

Most of it is working how I want it to but I've run into a problem. I can't get the beetle to actually look like he is moving. He just slides in the direction (I am using SetUnitX(u, x) and SetUnitY(u, y) to move him).

This is a big deal-breaker for me since it will not look right if the beetle doesn't play his walk animation.

The thing is, I got it to work playing the beetle's birth animation (it just doesn't loop yet, but I can handle that part later). So the problem seems to just be that I can't get the "walk" animation to play.


TL;DR: I got my trigger to work with "birth" animation but I want it to play "walk" animation.

Any idea why it's not working?

 

[SAUS]

I'm going to mess around with a potential solution and report back. I will see if I can give the beetle a move command a bit further ahead each time I move it so that it is constantly ordered to walk forward.

 

[Imp Midna]

The regular play animation functions cant play walk-animations for some reason, it's one of the many quirks of warcraft 3.

The Jass-Only SetUnitAnimationByIndex(unit, int) can do it. Which int you need to put in there to get the walk animation is different for every model, but since you only use the same beetle model, that shouldnt be a problem.

 

[SAUS]

Thank you so much @Imp Midna . I will test that out. I am coding all in JASS anyway so that is fine.

I tried my experiment but I did something wrong. The beetle ended up going in a circle haha. It looks funny at least. Either way, it is canceling the animation repeatedly like that so it doesn't look right.

I'll report back after trying the animation by index function.

 

[SAUS]

I tested it out. Turned out to be index 2 for the beetle model. Thank you so much for your help!