Some animations won't work when transfered

[Solu9]

Heya peeps.

I have been fizzling a little with transferring animations between models. As I am very new to these programs that's what I decided I would start with.

Anyway. I have come across some problems when an animation has been transferred. I did as the tutorial said (the one on this site) and usually it works.
I'll give you an example where it does not.

I wanted to add the Sea Giant's "Attack Slam" animation to the Warden hero model.
The transfer went as it should and I wanted to test it with the Warden's Fan of Knives. I set the animation names (in the ability) to "Attack, Slam".
When I use the Fan of Knives in-game the Warden simply does an attack animation while knives are flying everywhere.

If I use the same animation with the Beastmaster, it works.

What is the problem?

(Even though my knowledge is quite limited I came up with perhaps a possible answer. Something with the bones in the model or?)

 

[JesusHipster]

Their bones have different names.

 

[Solu9]

Is there a rule of thumb on which units have what skeleton? Or do I need to look through them all to find out?

 

[JesusHipster]

I need to look through them all to find out?

this

 

[Solu9]

this

Ah crap... Thanks for the answers.

 

[Uncle Fester]

@ Solu9: you can transfer the mesh of one model to the skeleton of another one. Than you'll have both, anims and a skeleton in the new model. Just keep in mind: you'll have to assign the vertices to the corresponding bone(s) afterwards. If you don't do so, the complete model will be messed when playing the anims.