Set next attack animation

[HungryHusky]

Is there anyway to set the next attack animation for a unit to a specific animation?
It should be possible becuase Critical Strike does this.
And GUI Animations triggers wont work i already tested, it doesn't look right.
There should be someway to do it since it does so in Critical Strike

 

[rulerofiron99]

Only if it has an animation tag.

You can use

• Animation - Add animation tag to unit

before the attack starts, and then remove it afterwards.

E.g. Critical Strike/Bash use the unit's "slam" attack animation, so to force that on a normal attack for a unit that has the animation, just add the "slam" animation tag, and remove it again afterwards.

 

[HungryHusky]

Awesome thanks. + rep

 

[Maker]

Did you try using the queue animation action? It can be useful at time. Then there's UnitSetAnimationByIndex(unit, integer) which forces the unit to play an animation. Good to know these thing, might be handy one day.

 

[rulerofiron99]

Did you try using the queue animation action? It can be useful at time. Then there's UnitSetAnimationByIndex(unit, integer) which forces the unit to play an animation. Good to know these thing, might be handy one day.

Do those take precedence over attack animations?

 

[CoLd Bon3]

You can use this (as Maker said) :

• Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_Caster,5)

It worked for me. When i had to display a certain animation, i found it's index (5 in the example i gave) and i had to get it's length.
For example, i had animation, long around 1.5 seconds. I had to loop the script with the animation for 1.5 seconds. And it worked. I'm not sure if it will work without looping the animation (to call the script only once). Because in my case, i had to loop the animation many times, not just once. So you can try!