Time Stop plays Death animation

[Cheezeman]

Greetings fellow vJassers

As you all may know, I recently made a spell called Time Stop. It's a good spell I think, but I have this minor issue with animation.
See, when a unit dies, it stays in stopped mode for a while, but then it instantly moves to the ground and starts decaying. It looks sort of wierd and I'd like to fix it, but I don't know how.
I'd like it to stay in the same animation for the entire duration of the spell, and then die with a normal animation (it would look more realistic).

Cookie for the vJasser with the most proper solution.

 

[Silvenon]

Well just detect when a unit affected by Time Stop dies and change it's animation speed to 100%. If there isn't something I missed, it's as simple as that.

 

[Cheezeman]

Well, that would make it more realistic, but in a sence not (why would dying make the unit's time revert to normal? makes no sence). But I guess that stopping time involves more unrealistic things than this.
Well it's my best shot, thanks.
Cookie as promised

 

[DiscipleOfLife]

This is just a pure guess, but you might want to try using the UnitSuspendDecay native on the units for the duration of your spell.

 

[Cheezeman]

This is just a pure guess, but you might want to try using the UnitSuspendDecay native on the units for the duration of your spell.

That might even be a better idea.
Maybe give me some details on how it works, what it does etc.? Or is it simple enough that it just stops it from dying?

 

[DiscipleOfLife]

Well actually I don't really know how it works. I've just been reading the DelayedSuspendDecay function in blizzard.j that uses it and figured it migh be of use, but I'm really not sure. Anyway, it just takes a unit and a boolean flag for its arguments, so you'd probably use it with a true argument at the beginning of your spell for all affected units (or when a unit dies under the spell's effect, not sure), and with a false argument at the end.

If that doesn't work you could always play the units' death animations manually via SetUnitAnimation when they die.

 

[PurplePoot]

It makes the unit not decay until you resume the decay again. Combining this with playing their death animation should fix your problem (resume the decay once the death animation is over).

 

[Cheezeman]

I'm gonna do my best with experimenting with this, either tonight if I get time, or tomorrow morning.

Edit: I had time to do some testing and, to be honest, making the unit die normally when it's killed looks best.
Thanks for help though, +rep