Triggered Silver Mage Teleportation - Animation?

[BlackOpsElf]

In my sixth scenario for "Where Angels Fear to Tread," as part of the start event, I want my Silver Mage to say something, move to a village, teleport to another village on the other side of the map, and then say something again. I know how to do everything except for the teleportation animation of the Silver Mage. Is it possible to trigger this animation (as far as I know, teleporting a unit across the map does not use the Silver Mage's teleport animation)?

[scott]

In my sixth scenario for "Where Angels Fear to Tread," as part of the start event, I want my Silver Mage to say something, move to a village, teleport to another village on the other side of the map, and then say something again. I know how to do everything except for the teleportation animation of the Silver Mage. Is it possible to trigger this animation (as far as I know, teleporting a unit across the map does not use the Silver Mage's teleport animation)?

There is a mechanism to trigger an animation in WML, but I haven't used it. It may require modification of the silver mage config file. Look for [animate_unit] and [extra_anim] http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/AnimationWML

[zookeeper]

Yes, you might need to duplicate the mainline silver mage .cfg, add some things to your version of it and then obviously use that in your campaign (or at least in that particular teleportation spot).

Basically, duplicate the teleportation animation of the silver mage into two [extra_anim] blocks - one for the disappearing part and one for the appearing in the destination. Then just trigger the disappearing animation, move the unit via [teleport] for example and then immediately trigger the second part of the animation. Should work and look correct.

[scott]

Yes, you might need to duplicate the mainline silver mage .cfg, add some things to your version of it and then obviously use that in your campaign (or at least in that particular teleportation spot).

Basically, duplicate the teleportation animation of the silver mage into two [extra_anim] blocks - one for the disappearing part and one for the appearing in the destination. Then just trigger the disappearing animation, move the unit via [teleport] for example and then immediately trigger the second part of the animation. Should work and look correct.

If it works properly, it might be nice to add it to the main image. That's the kind of animation you would expect to be used. Same thing with a gryphon rearing back.

[Boucman]

post 1.2 I plan to add special calls to the animate_unit action to be able to launch the default actions like attack, move, teleport etc....