Warcraft III Easter Special! Plus a trigger question

Hi I'm working on a cinematic that takes place in the Warcraft universe at Easter time (as if you didnt guess its a comedy cinematic). Upon completion it will be 15-20 minutes long and so far it dosnt have a dull moment :ggani: . Im trying to make this a great addition to the (sadly) small collection of cinematics. I dont want to spoil anything about it because I want everyone to be surprised when it comes out either Sunday or Monday :D . Ok well heres my questions:

1. Im trying to make the scorceress repeat her "Spell Attack" animation constantly for a scene. Ive tried using all different triggers about unit animation but none of them worked. Please someone tell me how to fix this so I can move one in the movie.

2. There is gonna be some custom music in the movie and I wanted to know if all I had to do to get it to work is import the music in. It works fine on my computer but I want to know so I dont have to release a revised version after to get it to work.

Thanks and I look forward to seing how everyone likes it after I release it! (Dont expect DeamonKillar or Insanitaeus quality work but you can expect some nice detail, real good comedy, some very nice camera work, and a few special effects here and there)

Footman and Grunt give it: :D :foot:

EDIT: The movie has been released in 15 parts! The parts start in the middle of page 4!!!! :ggani:

Did you tried "Queue Unit animation", or simply use the event "every x seconds of game (periodic event)"



Only import the music from the editor. I personally prefer to use "import sound" for musics, but that doesn't matter.

Thanks for the help! I really appreciate it. BTW, the movi e is still on track for a late Sunday/Monday release!8)

To get an animation to play over and over again, try using the Animation tag trigger.

Animation- Add animation tag Spell Attack to sorc.

The fun thing about Blizzard animations are that they are incredibly unpredictable. Did you know that telling a guy who has 2 attack animations to use a specific attack animation doesn't work? He'll just randomly use one. This annoyed the hell out of me in IC since certian animations were better for certian moments.

-Insaniteus-

Hey insan, do you know how to use the Stand animations? They never seem to work

Yeah thanks guys, I got it to work. I think you'll find this really funny and I've been working in like 5-6 hour long sessions to get it done! :gsmile:

@ DaemonKillar: :)



Look in this thread. It shows a few tips to the stand-animation. It helps me a lot. The quote is the important one in this thread. :)

I just figured out I simply can,t choose the stand animation I want hehe...

have u tried using the specify rarity action? i beleive that coupled with the play stand animation could work

I got it to work and its pretty funny looking... you'll know it when you see it. :ggani:

Well sorry for the delay but the map will be released tommorow! I just need to complete the last scene and make it completely bug and spelling error free so it don't look like a noob made it! I cant wait for you all to see it and I want to see what the cinematic masters Insaniteus (I hope I spelled it right :ggani: ) and DeamonKillar think of it! :D Well see ya tommorow!

cool, I sure would like to see it :D

Yeah, sounds good!8)

It will be released in around 2-5 hours so watch the thread! Footman and Grunt give it :D :foot:

I havn't timed the length yet but I'd say its a good 15 minutes long and even though that dosn't sound very long I'm sure cinematics people like Insaniteus and Daemon Killar can tell you that 15 minutes of quality bug free cinematics takes a very, very long time! And remember this movie is not supposed to be serious, its supposed to be funny! I even laughed at my own movie (well thats not saying much... I'm easily amused :ggani: ), but not after watching it for the 500th time to get it just right ;) . Well, I should be releasing it soon (Im not at home right now)!