Rotate a Unit with jass

[Grymlax]

Once again Gui isn't enough and i need some help from someone familiar with jass.

My problem is that i need to move a unit without breaking his order or animation. I know that to do this i need to Set the units x and then set its y but is there also a way to rotate him so that he doesn't face the same angle all the time?

 

[AceHart]

Tried "call SetUnitFacing(unit, angle)" yet? (No idea if that works as planned)

 

[Grymlax]

the unit rotates very slowly so i think i will have to find another way. thanks for the effort.

I need to spread around my rep before i can add you some.

 

[AceHart]

Slowly? How slow exactly? Mind posting the trigger?

 

[Joker(Div)]

SetUnitFacing rotates the unit according to their turn rate.

 

[Grymlax]

Ah I see, should have thought of that.

well anyhow I solved it another way wich looks awesome i think. thanks anyway.

 

[Darthfett]

Ah I see, should have thought of that.

well anyhow I solved it another way wich looks awesome i think. thanks anyway.

Could you post the solution? I have been trying to find a way around this for some abilities.

 

[Grymlax]

well it was more of a work around which only works for some few occations. so it will probably not work for your spells.

here is what i did. i changed the opacity for my unit to 100% then i created a dummy unit with locust and with the same model file as the triggering unit and simply moved him ontop of the first unit. Then each time i needed to rotate him i removed the dummy and replaced him with another dummy with another facing point. doing so it looked like if he spinned instantly even though he didn't rotate at all.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Could you post the solution? I have been trying to find a way around this for some abilities.

Can't you just do:

    call SetUnitFacingTimed(GetTriggerUnit(),123,0)

Not tested but it should work if this function works properly.