Gate Animations

[Jackal]

I've created a trigger for my own gate unit handling:

• Open Animation
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Finishes casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • (Ability being cast) Equal to Open Gate
        • (Ability being cast) Equal to Close Gate
        • (Ability being cast) Equal to Repair Gate
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Ability being cast) Equal to Open Gate
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Gate (Closed Iron Horizontal)
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Replace (Triggering unit) with a Gate (Open Iron Horizontal) using The old unit's relative life and mana
        • Animation - Play (Last replaced unit)'s death alternate animation
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Ability being cast) Equal to Close Gate
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Gate (Open Iron Horizontal)
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Replace (Triggering unit) with a Gate (Closed Iron Horizontal) using The old unit's relative life and mana
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Ability being cast) Equal to Repair Gate
        • (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Gate (Dead Iron Horizontal)
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Replace (Triggering unit) with a Gate (Open Iron Horizontal) using The new unit's max life and mana
        • Animation - Play (Last replaced unit)'s death alternate animation
      • Else - Actions

And for changing ownership on death:

• Gate dies
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Dies
  • Conditions
    • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • (Unit-type of (Dying unit)) Equal to Gate (Open Iron Horizontal)
        • (Unit-type of (Dying unit)) Equal to Gate (Closed Iron Horizontal)
        • (Unit-type of (Dying unit)) Equal to Gate (Dead Iron Horizontal)
  • Actions
    • Unit - Replace (Triggering unit) with a Gate (Dead Iron Horizontal) using The new unit's max life and mana
    • Unit - Change ownership of (Last replaced unit) to (Owner of (Killing unit)) and Change color
    • Animation - Play (Last replaced unit)'s death animation

This all works fine. I can open and close a gate and repair it if it is destroyed.

However, there is one slight fault. Whenever I repair a gate, it's animation goes to stand (as all models share the same model) when it should be staying at death. I've tried countering this with a trigger:

• Start Repairing Gate
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Repair Gate
  • Actions
    • Animation - Play (Triggering unit)'s death animation

And in the 'Repair Gate' ability I tried setting the Art - Animation Names to death,alternate. Unfortunately, these two methods have not worked and my gate still goes back to it's stand animation.

Any ideas of how I can solve this problem?

 

[Moon_Raven]

There is a special action for opening, destroying and closing gates:

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Destructible - Open/Destroy/Close <WHICH GATE>

 

[Jackal]

There is a special action for opening, destroying and closing gates:

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Destructible - Open/Destroy/Close <WHICH GATE>

My gates are units and not destructibles. If they were destructibles I wouldn't be able to give them abilities.

 

[polo2005]

i made a open close gate trigger for myself for not so long ago
using

1 unit called Gate (closed) vurable with patching: PathTextures\Gate1Path.tga
1 unit called Gate (open) invurable with patching: PathTextures\Gate1PathDeath.tga
1 unit called Gate (dead) vurable with patching: PathTextures\Gate1PathDeath.tga

Gate (closed) the gate that can be build by a builder, can be uppgraded to Gate (open)
Gate (open) can be uppgraded to Gate (closed)
Gate (dead) can be uppgraded to Gate (closed)


triggers:

open close
    Events
        Unit - A unit Finishes an upgrade
    Conditions
    Actions
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Gate (open)
            Then - Actions
                Animation - Play (Triggering unit)'s alternate animation
                Unit - Turn collision for (Triggering unit) Off
            Else - Actions

gate die
    Events
        Unit - A unit Dies
    Conditions
        Or - Any (Conditions) are true
            Conditions
                (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Gate (open)
                (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Gate (closed)
                (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Gate dead (dead)
    Actions
        Unit - Turn collision for (Triggering unit) Off
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                Or - Any (Conditions) are true
                    Conditions
                        (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Gate (open)
                        (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Gate (closed)
            Then - Actions
                Unit - Turn collision for (Triggering unit) Off
                Unit - Replace (Triggering unit) with a Gate dead (dead) using The new unit's max life and mana
                Unit - Turn collision for (Triggering unit) Off
                Animation - Play (Last replaced unit)'s death animation
            Else - Actions
                Unit - Remove (Dying unit) from the game

not rly what you asked about but you could use it if you want or just ignore it


or you could try to change it to A unit finish casting an ability

 

[Terrabull]

Haven't played around w/ Unit animations to much, but I think I have an answer. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think the problem is that you made these units instead of destructables. When you tell a unit to play it's animation, it plays the animation, then returns to the standing animation. Because whenever a unit is idle it uses it's stand animation. If you want a unit to freeze in the middle of an action you have to pause that unit. Alternativly you could probably set the animation speed to 0.01%, but then it might eventually stand up again.

 

[polo2005]

Haven't played around w/ Unit animations to much, but I think I have an answer. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think the problem is that you made these units instead of destructables. When you tell a unit to play it's animation, it plays the animation, then returns to the standing animation. Because whenever a unit is idle it uses it's stand animation. If you want a unit to freeze in the middle of an action you have to pause that unit. Alternativly you could probably set the animation speed to 0.01%, but then it might eventually stand up again.

rly?
then how come that it works in my trigger? if i remember correctly you have to reset the animation again

Animation - Reset (Last created unit)'s animation