Using animated unit halos

[Bob_The_Mighty]

For my campaign Altaz Mariners I have an ability which can set a ship on fire. I use an animated halo to show the ship is burning, but the graphics aren't behaving as I'd expected. It looks great apart from when an empty bit of sea starts burning.

There's two problems. 1) When a burning ship dies the ship image goes, but animation remains on the hex. 2) When a burning ship moves away from the hex on which it was set on fire, the animation likewise remains on the hex (curiously, the ship itself continues to show the animation, which is the intended behaviour).

In an 'attacker hits' event I have this code:

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[object]
	silent=yes
	duration=forever
	[filter]
		x,y=$x2,$y2
	[/filter]
	[effect]
		apply_to=halo
		halo=scenery/flames[01~15].png:50
	[/effect]
[/object]

Any ideas?

[inferno8]

Hi, Bob
If I were you, I would try to make a "burning" variation of a ship with a [standing_anim] displaying the flames. Then I would use an [object] to switch to that variation in the 'attacker hits' event. I cannot guarantee this approach to work but this should theoretically give you greater control over animations.

[zookeeper]

I don't see problem 2 in current master, but I didn't check with 1.13.7. Problem 1 is there, but until it gets fixed it might be easy to workaround it by removing/replacing the halo in a die event or something.

[Bob_The_Mighty]

I should have mentioned that I noticed this problem in 1.13.7. I've tested it further and it seems to work fine in 1.13.6. Is this likely to be fixed in the next release?

Thanks for the variation tip, inferno8. I'm reluctant to change the code since it worked before, but I think that would be a reasonable workaround.