Movement animation vs. direction

[AionCannonzSC2]

Can you do this with actor events or triggers:

- make the baneling roll animation play backwards from the direction it is moving

 

[Darkness-4ever]

Thought they removed the rolling animation, but getting to the point, in order to do this I would recommend creating a copy of the baneling model in the data editor and set its animation to -1.00, and in the baneling actor. Whenever it would roll move, have it swap models to the copied model with -1.00 animation, and when it stops moving, swap the model back to the original one.

 

[AionCannonzSC2]

no I don't want it to play the animation in reverse, I just want it to face backwards while its moving

and theres still a roll animation, you have to do an actor event like "add move animation - superior"

for reference this is for a baneling bowling map, where the banelings are like bowling balls. the player can curve the banelings like real bowling balls, so they will be moving forward while the roll animation makes them spin sideways

 

[Darkness-4ever]

Seems like the outcome would be the same, but if you want it do face backwards while moving forward, the only thing I can really think of is locking its facing by turning off the Turn flag in Unit section (though this will make it permanently fixed in 1 direction) as well as turning off the Turn before moving flag (again this will also be permanent and unchangable in-game).

 

[AionCannonzSC2]

so I would have to make a unique unit type for each spin value?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Banlings still have roll... Its called centrifugal hooks...
Try disabling all move animations on the unit via events for a start, if you can do that what you are after may be possible.

You can toggle the flag I think via buff behaviour and alter angle with triggers even if its on I think.

 

[AionCannonzSC2]

A toggle doesnt work, it has to spin at a certain angle determined on each roll by the player; there will probably be about 20 possible angles