Unit Animations

[Gnoll Overlord]

Hello again.

I am trying to make a custom campaign. It is going decent, but I am trying to make some Night Elves to lay dead. (animation) How do I do that? Also I want them to be non clickable.

Any help appreciated.

 

[BPower]

Are they ever meant for any action or are they just part of the terrain?

 

[Gnoll Overlord]

Are they ever meant for any action or are they just part of the terrain?

Both. One is supposed to talk in a cinematic.

 

[Tickles]

• Actions
  • Animation - Play UnitVariableGoesHere's death animation

It makes the unit appear dead.

You don't really need to make a unit unselectable if you're in cinematic mode, but for any unclickable units outside of cinematic mode, you can give it the locust ability using this:

• Actions
  • Custom script: call UnitAddAbility( udg_UnitVariableGoesHere, 'Aloc')

Be sure to change UnitVariableGoesHere to whatever your unit variable is.

 

[Gnoll Overlord]

• Actions
  • Animation - Play UnitVariableGoesHere's death animation

It makes the unit appear dead.

You don't really need to make a unit unselectable if you're in cinematic mode, but for any unclickable units outside of cinematic mode, you can give it the locust ability using this:

• Actions
  • Custom script: call UnitAddAbility( udg_UnitVariableGoesHere, 'Aloc')

Be sure to change UnitVariableGoesHere to whatever your unit variable is.

Alrighty, but say when I have the units dead they are on another team, how do I prevent them from attacking neutral hostile satyrs?

 

[Tickles]

• Actions
  • Unit - Pause UnitVariableGoesHere

Then unpausing them enables their actions again.

• Actions
  • Unit - Unpause UnitVariableGoesHere

 

[BPower]

a) Disable their attack in the object editor.
b) UnitAddAbility(unit, 'Abun') will remove the attack ability for that unit.
c) You could pause the unit.

 

[LordDz]

Remove their attack in the object editor, add the ability locust to them and play their death animation with the trigger action: Animation - Play Death Animation.

 

[defskull]

If you want to further ensure that nothing goes wrong with the "dead" animation:

• Animation - Change DeadBody animation speed to 0.00% of its original speed

This, of course, would not be needed, but you know for further security.