The Tank Problem

[Reaper51]

I have a double barreled tank model which fire its two barrels independently.
I want it so every attack alternates the animation to play so it looks like it firing the other barrel with every attack.
How is this possible to do?

 

[General Frank]

You might need a missile trigger system.
I used one myself some years ago, but I guess it is pretty outdated.
I recommend you to search for something I mentioned in the sections

 

[Maker]

Event - A unit is attacked
Condition - Unit type or something that filters out unwanted units
Actions
Start a timer with 0.00 expiration time if the timer is not started yet
Add attacking unit into a group

Event - timer expires
Actions
Pick every unit in group
--set anim = Custom value of picked unit
--if index[anim] == x then
----set index[anim] = y
--else
----set index[anim] = x
--endif
--Custom script : SetUnitAnimationByIndex(unit, anim)
--Remove unit from group
endloop

Use a unit indexer by Bribe (spell database) so the custom values work correctly.

 

[Reaper51]

Thank you, I will try it out.

 

[Reaper51]

I couldn't get the indexer working since I never used it before so i tried to do the trigger with custom values and animation tags but it screwed up the animations themselves.

Maker can you please post a test map for this system?