I'm looking for the Thor actor message that is used when a drop ship picks up a thor and the thor folds up. Does anyone know what message it is to initiate the fold up animation? I found the fold back down (when thor is being unloaded) but I can't find the actor message for when hes being loaded on! Please help
yes I know it happens on the thor transit model, however, if I want to transition into the thor transit model I have to have a certain actor message sent to my thor to enable the model. Like I said I have the fold back down into normal thor (from the fold up version) but I need the fold up version actor message. Im looking atht e thor transit actor/model right now and can't find the acutal animation message for folding up.
There is no message sent to the thor model when it folds up; here's how it works:
Medivac picks up thor and thor actor vanishes/is destroyed/turned invisible; not really sure.
Thor-transit actor is created via a Medivac event and attached to the medivac actor with a Local Z offset;
Thor-transit actor, upon creation, is told to play its "Stand, Work, Start" animation which is the folding up animation.
So if you're looking for a message, you need to look on the Medivac actor; but I don't think it's going to be as simple as you hope :/
You're going to need to mimic the medivac message (except put it on the thor actor) and you'll need to tinker around with the thor transit's hosting/host site operations. Well, maybe, I dunno what you're going for :>
What I'm trying to do is with my Thor hero, is have the fold up animation trigger when i execute my ability. Right now when the behavior goes away I have the fold down animation setup perfectly. Any ideas?
You need to edit the events on the Thor Transit actor to be created, then play the Work Start animation when your ability starts, then destroy when your ability finishes. I just did this for a morph ability with the Thor and it works ok.
I think you can fake it by making the thor invisible and attaching the folding thor actor to its origin. The only problem is that you might lose any tinting or attached effects while it is folding.
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I'm looking for the Thor actor message that is used when a drop ship picks up a thor and the thor folds up. Does anyone know what message it is to initiate the fold up animation? I found the fold back down (when thor is being unloaded) but I can't find the actor message for when hes being loaded on! Please help
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Anyone?
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That's because the fold-up animation occurs on a seperate actor/model, the ThorTransit actor/model.
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yes I know it happens on the thor transit model, however, if I want to transition into the thor transit model I have to have a certain actor message sent to my thor to enable the model. Like I said I have the fold back down into normal thor (from the fold up version) but I need the fold up version actor message. Im looking atht e thor transit actor/model right now and can't find the acutal animation message for folding up.
@Etravex: Go
There is no message sent to the thor model when it folds up; here's how it works:
Medivac picks up thor and thor actor vanishes/is destroyed/turned invisible; not really sure.
Thor-transit actor is created via a Medivac event and attached to the medivac actor with a Local Z offset;
Thor-transit actor, upon creation, is told to play its "Stand, Work, Start" animation which is the folding up animation.
So if you're looking for a message, you need to look on the Medivac actor; but I don't think it's going to be as simple as you hope :/
You're going to need to mimic the medivac message (except put it on the thor actor) and you'll need to tinker around with the thor transit's hosting/host site operations. Well, maybe, I dunno what you're going for :>
@xenrathe: Go
What I'm trying to do is with my Thor hero, is have the fold up animation trigger when i execute my ability. Right now when the behavior goes away I have the fold down animation setup perfectly. Any ideas?
You need to edit the events on the Thor Transit actor to be created, then play the Work Start animation when your ability starts, then destroy when your ability finishes. I just did this for a morph ability with the Thor and it works ok.
I think you can fake it by making the thor invisible and attaching the folding thor actor to its origin. The only problem is that you might lose any tinting or attached effects while it is folding.