Switching around chimaera's attack and spell animation

[Lord Aiden]

Anyone who is a frequent night elf player knows that the chimaera's attack animation has a spark of electricity generated from mouth of one of its heads while its spell animation (used for attacking buildings once the corrosive breath upgrade has been researched) has the other head thrust forward before launching the projectile, but the purpose of modding I was wondering how to replace the chimaera's attack animation with the attack spell animation

 

[Rheiko]

You mean you want to swap its attack animation with spell animation?

 

[Lord Aiden]

yes, because otherwise it looks silly launching a projectile with an electric spark in its mouth

 

[Rheiko]

Try this.

 

[Lord Aiden]

It works, but the chimaera does not have a portrait (profile view in the window) when you click on it

any way to fix this?

 

[Lord Aiden]

Nevermind I forgot to import the portrait of the model

Can u tell me how u switched the animations though?

 

[Chaosium]

I guess you can simply switch their names with War3 Model Editor.

 

[Rheiko]

As @Chaosium said
Open War3 Model Editor => Go to Sequence Manager => Change the Animation name
It's really that simple.

 

[Lord Aiden]

I tried doing something very similar (converting from mdx to mdl, then opening the file in word and swapping the attack and attack spell) but while this did work it also messed up another one of chimaera's animations for some reason