DemonHunter Metamorphosis animation

Hello all,

first post here, so pardon me if it's newbie question:

I want to have a hero switch to another hero through a competency. I chose Metamorphosis as a base competency. However, when Demonhunter triggers metamorphosis, there's a link animation between the initial and final stage of the transformation. Where is that animation, and how can I replace it?

Another question: I'd like the "metamorphosed" hero not to have an inventory during the time of metamorphosis, but also that the initial hero form keeps its objects. I guess I would have to use variables, but as a noob, I don't know how to make them do that :/. Any tips?

Thx in advance for the help !

The morph animation is part of the demon hunter model; few models have this animation; druid of the claw has, for example. But you can't get a nice animation for any model morphing into any other.

As far as using variables is concerned, that's not so hard. First of all, I do not know if you even nedd them, because the original hero may regain his items after the morph. If not, then this is more a triggering question, but it can be answered here: in trigger actions, in the general category, there is an action, "set variable". You will need 6 variables, one for each item, but that can be done with one array (an array is a variable that can hold multiple variables; the variables are seperated by numbers). That way, when a hero would begin morphing, you would document all his items by seting an "item-type" variable to the type of that item, and then, when the morph finishes, give the hero back the items of those item types.

OK... but I'm a little surprised. Nowhere can you find this animation? When I toy a bit with the settings, the transition animation disappears, but I thought it would be somewhere anyway.

For the variables, I'll try that too.

Thx for your answers!

IIRC the animation is called "alternate, morph". You'll have to click the "add string" button twice, once to add "alternate", the second time to add "morph".