Stop my corpse filled tree from T-posing

[NecroVirus]

• Corpse Tree Animation Start
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 1.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Change color of The Corpse Tree 0196 <gen> to Red
    • Unit - Make The Corpse Tree 0196 <gen> face 265.00 over 0.00 seconds
    • Wait 5.00 seconds
    • Animation - Change The Corpse Tree 0196 <gen>'s animation speed to 0.00% of its original speed

Can anyone tell me why my tree decides to t-pose 50% of the time?

 

[Lizreu]

Animations don't play when off-screen. If the tree is off-screen when it's created and you pause its animation, it will T-pose.

 

[NecroVirus]

Hmm that's... troubling. Any thoughts on a fix? Also the tree is there since map start so it's never created

 

[Pyrogasm]

Create a camera object pointed at the tree, and apply that camera object (on map init) for a player slot not being used (like player 22 or something) or a computer player. Then play the animation you want, wait, and pause it. Not sure that would actually work but it's probably worth a try.

 

[NecroVirus]

I do have 2 computer players, wonder if putting one of their starting locations there could help as well. Will give the camera a go and if that doesn’t work I’ll just pause the unit when a unit enters his region and hope for the best

 

[Lizreu]

When I said camera, I meant a player's local camera. The effect is local to each player. That is, if your camera isn't looking at the unit when it's animations are paused, it will t-pose for you.

Unfortunately, there's not really a solution to this. You can set the animation speed really low, like 0.01 or something like that and see if that would satisfy you.

 

[NecroVirus]

That might work! Hell it might even look cooler moving at a very slow pace! Will test this when I get out of work