Reincarnation and Skeleton Decay Animations

[Melth]

So I have the following situation:

I want to create a skeleton unit which (after a delay) is revived after death. Obviously Reincarnation is a perfect ability for that. So far so good.

The trouble is that reincarnation's art is too 'holy' looking, so I don't want to use that, but I need some way to warn players that the skeleton is going to get back up again.

What I would like is for the skeleton's bones to just lie there on the ground instead of sinking into the floor and vanishing the way the animation usually goes.


Is there a better way to do this than to trigger detecting the skeleton dying, waiting 1 second or something, and then freezing its animation? And then waiting the reincarnation delay time before unfreezing it's animation? That sounds like a terrible approach and not really multi-instanceable.

 

[Warseeker]

You can actually remove the reincarnation effect if you want to under Art - Effect

You can prevent a unit from decaying but increasing its Art - Death time to a higher value (The limit is 20 but you can use shift+Enter to enter a higher value) then you can store the dying unit in variable and use triggers to revive it later.

 

[Melth]

You can prevent a unit from decaying but increasing its Art - Death time to a higher value

This doesn't seem to work on skeletons actually. Even though I set their Combat - Death Type to 'Can Raise, Does Decay' and set the Art Death Time high, the shattered bones still just vanish immediately.

 

[Hermit]

This doesn't seem to work on skeletons actually. Even though I set their Combat - Death Type to 'Can Raise, Does Decay' and set the Art Death Time high, the shattered bones still just vanish immediately.

That's because standard skeleton models don't have any 'Decay' animations; they disappear at the end of their 'Death' animation.

 

[Melth]

That's because standard skeleton models don't have any 'Decay' animations; they disappear at the end of their 'Death' animation.

Is there a good workaround to that? All I can think of is pausing the unit's animation half a second after it dies or something, and that's going to be really clumsy.

 

[kentzeus]

Is there a good workaround to that? All I can think of is pausing the unit's animation half a second after it dies or something, and that's going to be really clumsy.

How is it clumsy?

 

[Hermit]

Is there a good workaround to that? All I can think of is pausing the unit's animation half a second after it dies or something, and that's going to be really clumsy.

I'm not really good with triggers, but I could probably add a 'Decay' animation to the model.