Playing a unit animation while moving

[Maximilianx]

Hey Hey, I'm creating a spell where the hero charges forward to the target point, becoming invulnerable and knocking units and trees out of the way. My problem is, how could i play a unit animation while moving him with triggers?

I want to create the illusion that i have him running, when i'm actually moving him with a timer, so that I can have him moving faster than the maximum movement speed of 522.

Thanks.

 

[crazy.peon]

Index

and control animation with speed etc.

 

[BlacKcuD]

I don't know if this is going to work, but have you tried the following: Duplicate the model and switch the animation names for walk and stand. While your hero is bashing around replace the model with the new one

 

[Maximilianx]

Well that's an idea but it doesn't seem very efficient, increasing the filesize and what not. :T

 

[Cokemonkey11]

I'd reccomend setting the unit's x and y position with jass instead of using set unit position.

 

[Maximilianx]

Yeah, I'm using jass, I've found a solution to this problem..

call SetUnitAnimation(unit whichUnit, string whichAnimation)

will not really play the animation all the way through for whatever reason, while:

call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(unit whichUnit, integer whichAnimation)

Will constantly loop the animation regardless of what the unit is doing until you reset it's animation, which is what i needed, I just needed to find the integer for his walk fast animation and bam it worked.

+rep for helping out though

 

[Ciebron]

pause the unit and just set hes x/y, works great did it with my charge spell