Syncing the portrait with the unit responses.

[GreeN!X]

I've made some custom animations for the chimera portait with it talking so that it could fit with our custom unit responses for it. The problem is that I can't make it that when this specific voice is played, portrait talk 1 is played and when the other specific voice is played, portrait talk 2 is played. (just like for the ogres.)

Is there something I should do to sync the portrait animations with the unit responses?

BTW, the unit responses I replaced are the unit responses of the ogres and I just extracted the chimera portrait to make the talking animations.

 

[Freddyk]

You could try to use animation tags.

Instead of "Portrait Talk - 1" and "Portrait Talk - 2", rename sequences as "Portrait Talk One" and "Portrait Talk Two".

Then use trigger "add/remove animation tag to unit" to select the animation you want ("One" or "Two").

I'm not sure it will work for portrait though.

 

[aple]

Simply put, I don't think you can do this. It's definitely something that would make a lot of people happy though, if was in WC3...

You can definitely do it in StarCraft II, I know that because I've done it before.

 

[GreeN!X]

So, what about the ogre unit's portrait? Does Wc3 have some code or some special crap for their portrait then?

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

The Ogre portrait animations don't actually synch, as far as I'm aware. The variations just play randomly and hope for the best.

Theoretically, if you only had one talk sequence and all the sound samples changed voice at the same time as that single talk sequence changed head... (Or single-voice clips ended early enough...)

 

[aple]

So, what about the ogre unit's portrait? Does Wc3 have some code or some special crap for their portrait then?

Actually, it does not sync at all. I've seen the voices come out of the wrong heads many times.

 

[GreeN!X]

Hm.. Well I guess that's just me seeing things then. :/

Still, it would damn friggin cool to see that sync.

 

[Freddyk]

You could make two different portrait models (one with head one speaking, the other with head two) and import them into two different unit-types.
Then you could use trigger "transmission from unit-type" and select the one you want.

 

[Callahan]

Potrait animation are actualy synch with the speech.
There's a file in mpq called Portraitanim.slk
You can see that Ogre and MortarTeam have different AnimIndice setting than other units.I think it's the anim indice required to match the sound playing.

 

[GreeN!X]

Where did you find that slk?

EDIT: Wait, found it. Now I just need to understand what these mean.

 

[Callahan]

I think it's the animation sequence index.And you'll need to edit the UnitAcksound.slk file as well.
Ogre Stand portrait (not talking) being 0, Talk left being 1 and talk right being 2.

The anim indices of "Ogre yes" is 2,1,2,1
It match the order files name in Unitacksound.slk "OgreYes1.wav,OgreYes2.wav,OgreYes3.wav,OgreYes4.wav"
2 being assigned to Yes1 and Yes3 where the right head talk.
1 being assigned to Yes2 and Yes4 where the left head talk.

It cannot switch animation during a single speech sound.That's why the animation doesn't match when both heads are talking in a single sound file, mostly OgrePissed.

Also if you're gonna edit these file and import your custom slk be sure to edit the ones from War3Patch.mpq or else sound from patch will be missing like Tinker,Flamelord sound file.

 

[Kyrbi0]

This is all so complicated now...