Killing Dummy without death animation

[Charapanga]

Hi, as the title suggests, how do i kill a dummy without playing its death animation or anything, that it would just vanish? My trigger creates 5 per second so i can't remove them all at once cuz they have different lifespans...

 

[Romek]

• Remove Unit:
  • Unit - Hide <Unit>
  • Unit - Kill <Unit>

 

[Rhaged]

        Unit - Remove Unit from the game

Or

        Unit - Add a 1.00 second Generic expiration timer to (Last created unit)

 

[Azlier]

Give it no model? If a unit has no model, they are totally invisible and have no death animation.

 

[Romek]

Using "Unit - Remove Unit" can cause handle stack corruption, so I suggest you avoid using it. Hide + Kill is a safer option.

Expiration Timers work well too. Especially for dummies.

 

[Azlier]

What? No one cares about my 'no model' theory?

 

[Charapanga]

Well i'm using a jass trigger that calls a timer every 0.5 seconds creates a dummy (needs a model, its like a clone that follows the caster) when i use expiration timer it plays death animation, when SetUnitExplodedBJ doesn't even work, no idea why(as a matter of fact, neither does SetUnitPathing, weird), tried alot of things, so i can't hide and kill it, beacuse that would be meaning waits in a timer callback which isn't really safe

 

[vaziocs]

What? No one cares about my 'no model' theory?

Oh y and how do you suggest changing a unit model via trigger ?? Did u guys even read what he typed he wants to make the unit disappear and look like it was removed EXPIRATION TIMERS makes the unit be killed with a timer so its the same shit.

 

[Azlier]

If it's in JASS, then this gets quite a bit easier! Just keep the dummy in a local variable, TriggerSleepAction(dummy life time), hide and kill. Expiration timers are so GUI.


@Vaziocs
He never said this info about it being a clone... I don't think. At one point did I ever suggest changing models with a trigger (which isn't possible, I heard.)

 

[Charapanga]

Thats a good idea! thanx
Edit: Wont TriggerSleepAction pause the whole trigger? not the whole function, cause i need the callback trigger(periodic, 0.5s) to run continously
And the LifeSpan is twice the wait time for the timer...

 

[Azlier]

That is a problem. Post the trigger?

 

[Romek]

Well, TSA doesn't work inside callback functions, however you could always use function.execute to start a new thread, then use TSA there.
For example:

function SomeFunction takes nothing returns nothing
        call TriggerSleepAction(5.)
        // Actions
    endfunction

    function Expire takes nothing returns nothing
        call SomeFunction.execute()
    endfunction

You can pass arguments easily if you're using vJass.
If you're not, you'll need to use ExecuteFunc(), and globals.