SC2Mapster

I am currently working on a bound map, and I have run into some issues which aren't too big of a deal, but lower the overall quality and flexibility of the map. My main problems have come with animations. What I am trying to do is, when a unit is killed by an explosion instead of the unit actually dieing, it's moved instantly back to the spawn and that unit's death animation plays, but this isn't working.

Here is the code I am currently using:

   Actions
        Environment - Create a Small Protoss explosion at (Center of Level_001_022)
        Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Any units in Level_001_022 owned by player Any Player matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount) and do (Actions)
            Actions
                Animation - Play Death animation for (Actor for (Picked unit)) as Default, using No Options options and Default Time blend time
                Unit - Move (Picked unit) instantly to (Center of Level_001_Respawn) (No Blend)
                Camera - Pan the camera for player (Owner of (Picked unit)) to ((Center of Level_001_Respawn) offset by (0.0, 0.0)) over 1.0 seconds with Existing Velocity% initial velocity, 10% deceleration, and Do Not use smart panning
                Unit - Order (Picked unit) to ( Hold Position) (Replace Existing Orders)

No death animation is played for the picked unit. It's just simply teleported to the specified region.

Also is it possible to just play the death animation of a unit at a specified region without ever spawning that unit? The default environment race explosions aren't very good for use in bounds, and I would prefer to use unit death animations.

any help at all is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Death animations are generally not part of the main model but are a separate model (and actor) created when the unit dies.

@RileyStarcraft: Go

Could I do something like "Create Zergling_Death actor at position of picked unit" and then kill model, or play death animation of last created actor? Or something along those lines?

So if I understand it you want the unit not to die, but to teleport to the spawn point, while leaving behind a death model - so it looks like the unit dies but at the same time instantly respawns?

You will want to make a custom actor of type model based on Model Style Animation One Shot, for the model use the death variant of the unit, and then change the BSD animation to "Ignore Death Ignore." Then you can create that actor at the death site using triggers or by linking it to an effect.

@RileyStarcraft: Go

I couldn't find the BSD Animation, or for that matter a field that I could change to "Ignore Death Ignore". Everything up to that point I think I found successfully. Sorry this is my first time working with Actors and the Data Editor, bare with me. :)

Thanks.

EDIT: I may have found what you are referring to, but I'm not sure that I did it right. Pic related. http://i30.tinypic.com/33dzfxw.jpg

I'm going to list what I have most recently tried yet failed to work.

I use functions for my bound, to make the entire process easier, here they are.

Respawn
    Options: Action
    Return Type: (None)
    Parameters
        Spawn_Point = No Region <Region>
    Grammar Text: Respawn(Spawn_Point)
    Hint Text: (None)
    Custom Script Code
    Local Variables
    Actions
      **Actor - Kill actor model (Last created actor)**
        Camera - Pan the camera for player (Owner of (Picked unit)) to ((Center of Spawn_Point) offset by (0.0, 0.0)) over 1.0 seconds with Existing Velocity% initial velocity, 10% deceleration, and Do Not use smart panning
        Unit - Move (Picked unit) instantly to (Center of Spawn_Point) (No Blend)
        Unit - Order (Picked unit) to ( Hold Position) (Replace Existing Orders)

Protoss_Explosion
    Options: Action
    Return Type: (None)
    Parameters
        Size <Explosion Size>
        Splode_pnt = No Region <Region>
        Spawn_Point = No Region <Region>
    Grammar Text: Protoss_Explosion(Size, Splode_pnt, Spawn_Point)
    Hint Text: (None)
    Custom Script Code
    Local Variables
    Actions
        Environment - Create a Size Protoss explosion at (Center of Splode_pnt)
        Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Any units in Splode_pnt owned by player Any Player matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount) and do (Actions)
            Actions
              **Actor - Create actor Zergling Death at point (Position of (Picked unit))**
                Respawn(Spawn_Point)

I have 3 functions for each of three race environment explosions. I won't list them because they are identical aside from the fact that the explosion type is different.

I have put bold tags around the lines which I recently added in the functions to try and get my desired effect.

I just put the Respawn function withing the (Race)_Explosion function, and everything works aside from the fact that the death animation still refuses to play.