Two questions regarding animate_unit

[Marcgal]

1. How to display the animation used when the unit is recruiting other units as a leader? Liches have such animations, yet https://wiki.wesnoth.org/InterfaceActio ... te_unit.5D doesn’t list an appropriate value of flag for such an animation. I tried flag=recruiting, but this won’t work

2. Is there any way to avoid the camera being automatically centered on the animated unit?

[The_Gnat]

In answer to your first question, this is the code the ancient lich uses, (in general the best way, rather than using the wiki, is to go into the base games install directory and find an example of the code being used in the mainline game):

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    [recruiting_anim]
        [filter_second]
            race=undead
        [/filter_second]
        start_time=-300
        [frame]
            image="units/undead-necromancers/ancient-lich-magic-[1,2].png:75"
        [/frame]
        [frame]
            image="units/undead-necromancers/ancient-lich-magic-3.png"
            halo=halo/undead/black-magic-[1~5].png:[75*4,50]
        [/frame]
        sound_start_time=-75
        [sound_frame]
            sound=magic-dark-big.ogg
        [/sound_frame]
        [frame]
            image="units/undead-necromancers/ancient-lich-magic-[2,1].png:50"
        [/frame]
        [frame]
            image="units/undead-necromancers/ancient-lich.png:1"
        [/frame]
    [/recruiting_anim]

As for that second question i unfortunately do not know

[Samonella]

1. How to display the animation used when the unit is recruiting other units as a leader? Liches have such animations, yet https://wiki.wesnoth.org/InterfaceActio ... te_unit.5D doesn’t list an appropriate value of flag for such an animation. I tried flag=recruiting, but this won’t work

I tried the same thing a little while ago, and couldn't figure it out. For liches, their ranged attack animation isn't too different, so maybe you could use it instead?

Also... does [recall] animate the leader? I don't think so, but maybe. If so, maybe you can use it to work around the problem?

EDIT: Or, if you're really desperate, you could use [modify_unit] with an [object] to make a new animation that looks the same as the recruiting one, but which you can use in [animate_unit].

2. Is there any way to avoid the camera being automatically centered on the animated unit?

I assume you want the camera to stay wherever it happened to be before the animation? I don't know any way, but if there was a specific different unit you wanted the camera to center on, here's an untested idea that might work. Since [animate_unit] allows you to use [animate] to do multiple units at once, I assume the camera stays focused on the unit animated by [animate_unit] (the outermost tag). So you could "animate" the unit that the camera should focus on with a standing animation or something that won't actually do anything, and use an [animate] tag to make the animation that you originally wanted.

As you can see, I don't really know the answers, I'm just brainstorming some hacky work-arounds, like I always do when I get stuck.