I have noticed that there are very detailed animations in the Previewer, but how do I access these through triggers? They are EXTREMELY limited in selection. Any help in this endeavor is appreciated. Includes workarounds please.

I just want to play the transition from one animation to the next, there are plenty of unused animations that could be linked together to make very nice, custom animations... But there doesn't seem to be an apparent option to do this in the trigger editor.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 1 2011, 4:01 pm by LoveLess.

There is a section entirely made for Animation in the triggers. It is at the top of the list when you create a new trigger action. The action you want in this section would be Play Animation and then select your animation and your target unit to play that animation. The options are optional though.

I am looking at that and there doesn't seem to be a way to pull up specific animations. Not to mention some are cryptic as hell. Such as, how do I make a unit play the animation from coming out of a dropship? I can see the animation in the preview, now I want to play that animation. Or say, play that animation backwards. I believe it is possible, seeing as there has been maps that used animations in reverse for spells and such.

1.) The dropship animation would be Unload for a Marine. To get him in the air, then dropping, try this trigger:


2.) I think you would have to do some model editing for a backwards animation. Unless there is a trigger for it, I'll dig around some more.

Alright! Aside from reversing animations, I learned everything I needed. Appreciate the help Alec.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jan 2 2011, 3:34 pm by LoveLess.

Glad to be of assistance.

I tried digging into the "reverse animations" in the triggers, and tried the Options in the Play Animation action, but they don't seem to do anything relating to that. I can only think of model editing for this sort of goal.

Correct.

Each .m3 file has a list of associated .m3sequences with it. These sequences are what you see like:
Attack
Attack_Superior (attacking air or to a higher cliff level)
Burrow
Unburrow
Walk_A
Walk_B
Walk_C
Walk_...
Walk_...
Walk_M
Walk

Etc... They are just animations which have been created in a 3D software suite (blender/3dsmax) and therefore you will most likely (read: definitely) be unable to edit them through the galaxy editor. As for playing the animation backwards, impossible - since the animation is saved linearly for each model already, so, for the Marine example, Walk is a continuous loop of Walk_A, B, C etc.. The Attack animation is as you see in game, the Marine stands still, raises his gauss rifle, fires and 'shakes' his upper body to simulate the recoil of a weapon.

So, yeah, you needs modelz0r skills to mess around with the animations. Since they are pre-created for each individual model already.

Edit: Sure, you can adjust the speed at which an animation is played back, or the blend times etc... But you can't do very much else.

Existing Reverse Animations are made with somehow setting the animation offset for the animation play and decreasing the offset each loop in the trigger.

Not sure if this is relevant: