[Spell] Spell Animations In Triggers

[Assassins-Creed]

Hello, I am having an issue where the animation of a unit is not being activated. I believe it's because the object editor spells always play an animation regardless if there is an animation in the "Art - Animation Names" category.

Spoiler: Trigger

• Untitled Trigger 002
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Channel
  • Actions
    • Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_UST_Caster[udg_UST_Index], 16)

My assumption is that as soon as the spell is detected the trigger's animation fires first and then the spell overwrites it and plays the spell animation instead. I tried adding the name of the animation (Spell Channel 2) to the "Art - Animation Names" category but it still doesn't use that animation. Instead, the caster uses the stand animation.

Is there anyway to fix this problem whether it's with triggers or in the object editor? I know if I delay the animation call by even a millisecond the "SetUnitAnimationByIndex" will work. However, I don't want to add a short 0.03 timer to a loop just to make it happen in an instant spell.

 

[gusanomental]

I've experienced the same issue time ago and I think I solved it by setting animation cast point to 0 as I read here (it will affect the rest of the spells as well): Adding Custom Animation When Using Channel Ability

 

[Pyrogasm]

For what it's worth with non-channel abilities you need to make each part of the animation a separate string in the animation names field. Instead of putting "spell channel 2" or "spell,channel,2" you need it to be 3 separate entries in the right order:

spell
channel
2

 

[Assassins-Creed]

Pausing and unpausing was something I really wanted to avoid as well. However, I suppose that's the only fix.
@Pyrogasm That's a helpful bit of information, thank you. Should come in handy for some other spells I have.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Is there some reason you can’t just use a different channeling ability? Where animations do work?