How to make a fake attack?

[Ken_Oh]

I'm at a loss on how to do this. I think I remember it being in another campaign, but I don't remember where.

I want to make Delfador, who is at coords 25,24 use his nifty halo lightning attack to be triggered by a moveto [event] and have him attack a rock at 24,23.

I've tried just putting this in:

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			[animation]
				hits=yes
				direction=nw
				[frame]
					begin=-300
					end=-200
					image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
					halo=halo/lightning-bolt-1-1.png:100
					halo_x,halo_y=24,23
					sound=lightning.ogg
				[/frame]
				[frame]
					begin=-200
					end=-100
					image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
					halo=halo/lightning-bolt-1-2.png
					halo_x,halo_y=24,23
				[/frame]
				[frame]
					begin=-100
					end=100
					image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
					halo=halo/lightning-bolt-1-3.png
					halo_x,halo_y=24,23
				[/frame]
				[frame]
					begin=100
					end=200
					image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
					halo=halo/lightning-bolt-1-4.png
					halo_x,halo_y=24,23
				[/frame]
				[frame]
					begin=200
					end=250
					image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
					halo=misc/blank-hex.png
					halo_x,halo_y=24,23
				[/frame]
			[/animation]

But it's not doing anything. I just don't know where to go from here.

Any help to put me in the right direction is appreciated.

[scott]

Theoretically...

The unit def needs an [extra_anim] tag per http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/UnitWML and http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/AnimationWML
Then, in the event that triggers it, you use an [animate_unit] tag per http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/InterfaceActionsWML

I have never seen it used anywhere, but if someone animates a L1 gryphon rider to rear back I would. Maybe you're thinking of Delfador in Plunging into the Darkness. However, this isn't used. The sound is played and the screen flashes white.

[Ken_Oh]

Ah, very good. Honestly, when I said I thought I remembered something liek it happening in a campaign, I must have been thinking of some other game.

I looked it through and here's part of what I put into a test scenario:

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[side]
	side=3
	type=Elder Mage
	description=second
	user_description= _ "Second"
	unrenamable=yes
	controller=ai
	team_name=teamone
	canrecruit=1
	recruit=Peasant
	gold=50
[/side]

[event]
	name=ai turn
	first_time_only=no
	{MODIFY_UNIT description=second goto_x 15}
	{MODIFY_UNIT description=second goto_y 15}
[/event]

[event]
	name=moveto
	[filter]
		x,y=15,15
	[/filter]
	[if]
		[have_unit]
			description=second
			x=15
			y=15
		[/have_unit]
		[then]
			[scroll_to]
				x=15
				y=15
			[/scroll_to]
			[animate_unit]
				flag=blast
				[filter]
					description=second
				[/filter]
			[/animate_unit]
		[/then]
	[/if]
[/event]

Below is what I inserted into a copied version of Elder Mage.cfg:

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[extra_anim]
	[animation]
		flag=blast
		direction=nw
		[frame]
			begin=-300
			end=-200
			image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
			halo=halo/lightning-bolt-1-1.png:100
			halo_x,halo_y=-1,-1
			sound=lightning.ogg
		[/frame]
		[frame]
			begin=-200
			end=-100
			image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
			halo=halo/lightning-bolt-1-2.png
			halo_x,halo_y=-1,-1
		[/frame]
		[frame]
			begin=-100
			end=100
			image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
			halo=halo/lightning-bolt-1-3.png
			halo_x,halo_y=-1,-1
		[/frame]
		[frame]
			begin=100
			end=200
			image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
			halo=halo/lightning-bolt-1-4.png
			halo_x,halo_y=-1,-1
		[/frame]
		[frame]
			begin=200
			end=250
			image="units/elder-mage-ranged.png"
			halo=misc/blank-hex.png
			halo_x,halo_y=-1,-1
		[/frame]
	[/animation]
[/extra_anim]

When "second" gets to 15,15, he stops and the game freezes. I can select stuff with the mouse, see stats and unit descriptions, but it's perpetually stuck on the ai turn (which is exactly what happened when I tried to put all this into my real campaign).

If anyone can give it a look-down, then thanks in advance. I'm getting sleepy and if I can't find anything obvious after I post this, I'll call it a night.

[Ranger M]

it happens in the last scenario of UTBS.

[zookeeper]

[extra_anim] doesn't take an [animation] in it.

I think you don't need to trigger fake attack anims however, if you just make a fake unit in place of the rock, and make the AI target that aggressively enough (possibly flipping delfie to that AI side only when he steps next to the rock).

[turin]

what would be extremely useful (and this has been brought up before) is a tag to make a unit attack another... and be able to give the random numbers used (so you can determine how much damage is done). That would solve the problem here nicely.

[Boucman]

post a feature request and assign it to me, that's very doable with the current engine

I will implement it post 1.2

[Ken_Oh]

Thanks all!

Zookeeper had the key I needed. The extra [animation] tag is what caused the problem. zoo and EP then helped me sort out the details in irc.

[turin]

post a feature request and assign it to me, that's very doable with the current engine

I will implement it post 1.2

Aye aye.