Weird bug with spell animations in my map

[RobertMKD]

The spell animations of all units in my map suddenly started to stop when the spell is cast. What may cause this?

 

[darwin]

Do the spells still go off? Did you use triggers for stopping animation speed?

 

[RobertMKD]

No, everything else except for the animations works as it regularly did. I've tried turning off the triggers used for a spell to test out if it's causing the problem and the problem is still there.
Animation stops when the spell is cast (Ability Cast Point). Didn't used to stop before, is someone experiencing the same problem as I am?

 

[SAUS]

Are these default WC3 spells or custom spells? Is it happening for all spells or a specific spell?

 

[RobertMKD]

Yeah, first I thought it was one spell, but then realized it happens for all spells in my map.

 

[Legal_Ease]

Something like this must be happening:

Unit casts an ability
Set unit animation speed to 0%

If not, that is really strange. Maybe try reinstalling your wc3?

 

[RobertMKD]

No, that's not happening, trust me, the animation returns to stand whenever the spell is cast. I know it's strange, and it wasn't happening before, it started happening when I last updated the map with new stuff. So, I'm trying to find the thing I added that caused this malfunction, but to remember what you last added is the hardest thing, that's why I asked here if some of you had the same problem.

 

[darwin]

Units settings? Did you change the cast points and all that stuff that I don't know much about? Is it one kind of unit?

 

[RobertMKD]

No man, it's not that, spell animations stop on 'Cast Point'.

 

[Legal_Ease]

Post the map.

 

[RobertMKD]

Ah, sorry but that's not an option.

 

[KILLCIDE]

Ah, sorry but that's not an option.

Not to be rude, but I don't see why people act like this. Do they think this community is out to steal other people's ideas? We're all just helping each other out. If you aren't going to help us help you, I don't get why you post a question here in the first place.

 

[Legal_Ease]

Ah, sorry but that's not an option.

If you are really that concerned you could create a demo map just to show off the problem. It would take like 2 minutes to import the units and spells. Doing this may even help you spot the issue faster.

 

[teozamait]

Something very similar happened to me once, animations simply started dissapearing.

Check to see if this happens in your entire WC3 game (go try some melee maps). If that happens over there, you need to reinstall your WC3. No worries, your custom map should work perfectly fine after that.

 

[RobertMKD]

I've tested out some things, and found out that only spells based on channeling abilities (including the 'Channel' ability) stop spell animations when cast, since every channeling spell stops the channeling animation when the effect ends, or is interrupted. But, I'm NOT using channeling animations, I'm using spell animations for these abilities and they weren't stopping after a few days ago.
I increased duration/follow through time for these abilities to prevent the animations from stopping, but this is just covering the problem...

 

[Wietlol]

I think there is no problem, I think you are just not understanding how the channel ability works.