Animation Question

I was curious, what happens when you play an animation on a unit while we is currently in the middle of an autoattack animation? (And does the original attack connect?)

Meh, I guess the unit start the autoattack animation, doesn't complete it and goes to the triggered animation, with a buggy visual effect. But I'm not sure enough of this.

I'm pretty sure the attack (or any other action, like spells) doesn't get interrupted. Animations should be entirely visual, without gameplay consequences.

Well I am trying to make a dual wield ability, so I am basing it off EQ's idea, where offhand is a % chance to strike. My main concern was at really short attack speeds where the animation may interfere with the actual attack.

That's a good idea - it'll probably help a ton with a certain Jungle Dartmon...

Jungle Dartmon? o.o

Hmm, dual attacks with unconflicting animations; yeeeesss...

--EDIT--
Wait, how does that help, cosmicat? :P

Custom troll race unit Kyrbi0 wants to make. Has a ranged air attack and a melee ground attack, each with a different animation (blows darts at air, bashes ground with staff). The problem is (was) that we were planning to use a mod. Critical Strike to make him play his "Slam" animation when he attacked ground, but he also wanted to give them a regular Critical Strike (resulting in a ground attack vs air or an air attack vs ground on crit proc).

Critical Strike is hard-coded to play the "Attack Slam" animation string if it exists, but if we gave his air attack, say, a special animation string ("Attack Air") and didn't give him an "Attack Slam" animation at all, we wouldn't need to use a 100%-proc Critical Strike to play a different animation for air attacks -- we'd trigger it so he played his "Attack Air" animation on event - unit is attacked with condition - attacked unit is an air unit. You see? Then Critical Strike wouldn't be a problem at all, because it couldn't play a special attack animation.

TL;DR: scrap the "use Critical Strike to play Attack Slam animation" idea and trigger the air attack animation instead; the trigger will override the "critical strike" animation, and you can give the Dartmon a (vs ground only) Slam animation if you wish.

Ahhh..

Sweet. :P