OPENING and CLOSING gates as units!

[Stupidfan]

I have been trying to make a gate system like the one in castle builder, and village builder version 1.6d.
In those games you can build the gate and open and close it. I copied the units and abilities from village builder and i made it so u can walk through the gate and then close is so u cant walk through. I have been trying to figure out how to make the gates open and close. Is it an animation that im not using because in village builder there was no animations or any triggers that play the animation.
Could someone please help me i have no idea what to do i have been fussing with it for 4 hours trying animations like open, alternate, and switch.

 

[Ramza]

i think they used an ability based on metamorphosis. copy ur gate unit and at 'art - required animation names' fill in 'alternateex' and at bone names and link names fill in 'alternate' it doesnt need 'attachment names - attachments' cuz it doesnt have any. dont know for sure if it works though

 

[Stupidfan]

well i copied there open and close ability and copied the gates also. I have it where when i open it looks closed but you can walk through it/and when its closed you cant go through it.

looks lik elocked and unlocked instead of open and close

 

[Ramza]

ow.. i rly dont know why it does that. check that map again and look what they did different from what i said

 

[Cenurick_Druidhorn]

Trigger

If you're talking about Warcraft 3's World Editor. There's a trigger labeled:

'Destructible - Open/Close/Destroy Gate'

If that's any help

 

[Ramza]

Cenurick_Druidhorn, u didnt rly read his question did u?

i know a way, when the unit enters the game with the closed pathing, just do 'animatin - play the gate's closed animation

and with the open pathing, let it play the opened gate animation

 

[Cenurick_Druidhorn]

oh...I guess I didn't, lol:!:

 

[Stupidfan]

does anybody else have any ideas?

 

[Eleandor]

what I'd do is the following:

a gate unit with gate pathing texture, and give it an ability that lets the gate polymorph into a second unit that has the open animation (just change the "art - required animation names" into "death alternate"), and the ability to close again.

 

[Cenurick_Druidhorn]

yeah...Edit the Druid of the Claw's Bear form skill!

 

[Stupidfan]

I did use the druid of the claw bear form lol

 

[Stupidfan]

Someone respond

 

[Ramza]

-.- why? the problem is solved, we dont need ur help xD