Opening a Gate?

[The Arcot]

Im making a Medeival-Builder style map, and there are buildable gates, but Im having a little bit of trouble getting them to open and close.

(First of all, I will remind eveyone that the gates are STRUCTURES, not destructables.)

Anyway, I made an ability called open, based off of crow form. It replaces the gate with another gate with no pathing map (so you can go through it.)

Anyway, I made a very simple trigger to try and trigger it to open:

Gates Open
Events
Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
Conditions
(Ability being cast) Equal to Open
Actions
Animation - Play (Casting unit)'s Death Alternate animation

But it just flashes the animation, then goes back to appearing closed. If I try and cast the spell again, the game crashes. I can't really understand what the problem is.
I also tried adjusting the actions so it is replaced with a new gate using the life of the old gate and playing the animation, but the same thing happens.

If you could clear this up and/or give me a better method of making it work, then +rep for you.

 

[Sevion]

Try basing it off something else then in the trigger replace it with an opened gate and then reselecting it for the owner.

 

[Daskunk]

I think people have talked about this before, try searching...

You know how you can make a demon hunter turn into his other form by changing his required animation names? Well, try doing that on the gate and see if it stays open. If you dont get waht I mean, check the demonhunter\demonhunter in demon form.

If it does work, make it just like the demonhunters ult. If it doesn't... Idk, try searching.

 

[The Arcot]

First, Im not stupid, Ive tried searching. The question is never really answered, or else it is answered on the assumption that the gate is a destructable.

And the alternate form does have the alternate animations, but they arent doing anything.

And sevion, theres no open gate model. Ill try basing it off something else though, that might at least fix the crashing.

 

[Daskunk]

First, Im not stupid, Ive tried searching. The question is never really answered, or else it is answered on the assumption that the gate is a destructable.

And the alternate form does have the alternate animations, but they arent doing anything.

And sevion, theres no open gate model. Ill try basing it off something else though, that might at least fix the crashing.

Ok.


If it flashs the animation could you set its animation speed to 0 at the right time so It would stay that way?

 

[Sevion]

Woah there horsie! No one here ever said you're stupid. Calm down. We're just trying to help. I don't have WC anymore, for a while till my laptop gets repaired, so I can't help that much. But you can create an opened gate model can you not? Also, just create another building with the gate model with no pathing then make it play it's death animation but pause it when it's opened. get what I mean? Aggressiveness never solved anything >_>

 

[The Arcot]

Sorry sevion, I didnt say you called me stupid, its just that almost every time I ask a question Im swarmed with like 10 people telling me to use the search function, and I already did, quite thoroughly.

 

[Sevion]

Then say so in your post >_>

Is any of it working?

 

[Choppa]

You could replace it with an open gate, like make two types, open and closed and when you cast it you replace it.

 

[The Arcot]

Ok... there is no open gate model. There isn't even a vertical gate model. I need to know how to use the animation 'death alternate' on a gate so that it stays open. And then I need to know how to do it so it closes again. I could replace it, but I would still need to be able to open the new structure.

EDIT:

WOOT I got it to work. I needed to loop the animation, simple as that, sorry I was a bit of a jerk, I know you were trying to help.