Problem about animations

[Tom_Almighty1]

I have a unit that has a Stand and Stand Ready ability.
When I give it the Stand Ready animation through triggers, it works, but when it attacks an enemy, the stand ready animation goes away and it just uses the stand (normal) animation. Is there a way to make it still use the Stand Ready animation even after it attacks?

 

[Nichilus]

Try this:

• Animation - Add the ready animation tag to Your_unit

 

[Tom_Almighty1]

That's what I used when I said "I give it the Stand Ready Animation through triggers" but somehow it resets back to the normal stand animation after attacking.

 

[Vinz]

Try playing Stand Ready whenever the unit is ordered anything.

 

[Veritas 117]

Try Art - Required Animation Names in the object editor. Set the field to Stand Ready and see if that works

 

[Nichilus]

That doesn't do it either.

Both the action I showed and the object editor approach do work, the problem is that the "Ready" animation is played in combat and the game automatically detects it.
Actually, upon start of combat the game itself adds the "ready" tag for the unit and upon exiting combat it automatically removes it, hence why it "doesn't work".

You actually need to either:
a) Make that a standalone animation (e.g. renaming it from Stand Ready to for example Stand - 3 or Stand Alternate, etc.)
or b) Catch when said unit attacks anyone, add it in group, check if that unit is in combat (dunno how efficiently tho) and if not, add the animation tag to it.

 

[Vinz]

You can use this for that.