You must use : "Special G cyclops_BoredA"

And DUMMY, is just to tell you where I.E. the left arm is

Open up the trigger window then click on a unit and then click open the animation editor, a list of all its animations, the name of them and a demo showing you what they do will be availiable. Do the things I said in the right order.

Reaper,

I don't think "regular", non-cinematic animations will work.

I've tried with a lot of units, and only the ones that worked were the ones in the campaign, which are list under the category cinematics.

I hope that I'm wrong, otherwise, most of the regular animations are quite useless.

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By the way, I've just noticed that the animation viewer also give incorrect names.

For example, the animation for Kamos jumping off the cliff given by the animation viewer is: Kamos_cine052cliffjump

This is not correct. The correct animation is: Kamo_cine052cliffjump (without the "S" in Kamos)

[This message has been edited by Alexandergreat3 (edited 11-19-2003 @ 06:12 PM).]

Thank you very much, guys.
Well I agree that non-campaign animations do not function, which, alas, will cost a lot of beauty

maybe the is a way, I'm going to look for it...

OK, I'm working upon it either, let me know if you find out smth., and I'll do also...

I remember this (don't know if it is true): set Animation: idlea
boreda
walka
etcetera
Try them out (no gurantuee they work :P)

No, that do not work.
But it gives another method to add some anims:
1. Look in the Anim Viewer for an unit motion file (here for example the Aurochs flail-file "animal aurochs_flailA")

2. Open the appropriate anim file "aurochs_anim.txt" (extracted from the anim.bar in the folder AoM/anim) and save it in the folder AoM/anim.
3. Add to the end of this file the text
//========================================================== ====================
anim Cinematic
{
SetSelector
{
set hotspot
{
name animalaurochs_flailA
version
{
Visual animal aurochs_flailA
}
}
}
}

Important: The name of the new animation (animalaurochs_flailA) must be written without a space, if it will work with the trigger effect "Set Animation".
4. Open the trigger editor and add a new trigger with the effect "Set Animation"

Possible are all *.brg files, after these were stored as an "Anim Cinematic".

But this "new" animation will not be saved in a scenario without this modified anim file.

Hmm, maybe it's an idea to make a patch out of it ??
Cheezy???

Well, there are too many animations. Where one is to begin?

I just wonder why ES didn't do it on their own... They again left us a half-baked editor.

Can somebody make this topic a sticky because its really helpful, or under the resource library or something...

Another example (Villager Greek), if "Anim Cinematic"s are present already:

one removes the two last
}
}

and add

set hotspot
{
name villagerGmale_PrayB
version
{
Visual villager G male_PrayB
}
}
}
}

Do not forget to remove the empty spaces

Whom it interests: in the NXE2 are these files present as illustrative material, with sound files of AOE (the "Wolooloo" and the "Ajojojo" from the priest).
If the Greek villagers pray, the sound is to be heard. For removing this sound one can change either the villager greek anim.txt file or remove the text file.

hey, so if someone modifies a "unitame_anim.txt" file, are those changes saved with the scn? Or do people who download the scn also have to modify that unit's "...anim.txt" file?

Also, you mention for the villager example that in the code you must remove the last two

}
}

But, you do not mention doing this for the first example you gave... the aurochs. Do you have to do something different for each and every animation? Or should you always remove the last two brackets?

tnx!
:Z

Any changes to an anim file would constitute a mod pack. Therefore, the anim file would have to be submitted (and put into the proper folder) along with the scenario in order for the changes to be visible.

And you don't actually have to remove the last two brackets, just type or copy or whatever above them. Notice at the top there are four "open" brackets that open various sections of the animation defines. Therefore, to finalize the animation section, you must have four "close" brackets at the end. The brackets in between finalize and open sections for individual animations.

[This message has been edited by King Jared (edited 01-10-2004 @ 09:39 PM).]