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Freezing an animation partway through

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    Bilxor Regular Shmoe Avatar of Bilxor
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    #1 Feb 06, 2013 at 11:27 UTC - 0 likes

    Pretty self-explanatory. Say I want to freeze an ultralisk right as it is rearing back to attack like it's literally frozen in time.

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    #2 Feb 06, 2013 at 16:07 UTC - 0 likes

    The 'set animation timescale' trigger can handle this, or an actor message to the unit's actor.

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    #3 Feb 06, 2013 at 17:59 UTC - 0 likes

    @zorbotron: Go

    Pardon me if I'm off point, but aren't you referring to triggers from the trigger editor? If you are talking about the cutscene editor, I'm not sure where these actions are found.

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    #4 Mar 08, 2013 at 21:59 UTC - 0 likes

    In the cutscene editor it is very easy. Open up the property timeline, create a keyframe in the animation where you want to pause and scale the animation speed from that point on to .000001 or something tiny. It's not technically frozen, but it's slow enough no one will notice.

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