Hi,
I have made an UEF factory and an animation for this one.
I want to run the animation before the factory starting to construct (unfolding the arms before building a unit) but it does not work.

I try to launch the animation like this:


However i know that my animation file working good because i can run it with this:


So what's going wrong? That i want to do is only possible with a .sca file ?

Thank you!

I have find a way to bypass my problem with some lua script.

I think it's not really possible to play an animation before the factory start to build so i decided to play my animation (with a few modifications) just after his construction.

it's not really the result i expected to when i was thinking to doing this unit but it's working...

PS: if anybody knows why do not work, tel me. (even if you need to necropost this thread )

thank you

it doesnt work because this is fired from the unit that is being built and not the unit that is building

it is possible, Raevn(i think that is his name) figured it out for his TA mod a long time ago, the alpha/beta might still be on the forums somewhere, you might be able to take a look in there.

other options include hooking the OnStartBuild function to pause the building and play the animation then resume construction when the animation is finished.