[VISUAL] Handful of Cosmetic Fixes and Touch-ups

[Terresquall]

Introduction

This is a topic that seeks to bring attention to several visual errors or misfits that can be very easily and simply fixed. Alright, not much to say here. On to the specific stuff:

1) Axe: Culling Blade

The skill's animation is timed wrongly! The skill deals damage when the Axe swings his weapon upwards, not when his weapon descends upon the head of the target!

Culling Bad

Fix: Increase Axe's animation speed to 180% when Culling Blade is activated for 0.3 second to syncronise the damage with the blade landing.
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2) Moon Rider: Lucent Beam

There are two problems with the Lucent Beam animation:

• Doesn't show at all on an image if the skill does the killing blow (i.e. image goes poof, but no beam comes down).
• When multiple Lucent Beams hit a single unit, it is not apparent (the beams "stack" together).

Fix: The effect played is currently attached to a unit's "origin". Instead of such, play the effect at the unit's location.
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3) Demon Witch: Impale

When the spell is cast, Lion's spell animation is cut off the moment the spikes come out, even if the spell isn't cancelled. This gives him a very weird jerk whenever he casts the spell.

Fix: Increase the base spell's Follow Through Time from 0.3 to 0.8 so that the spell will show the rest of his spell animation. This will not affect the spell's casting delay, and the additional animation can be cancelled.
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4) Goblin Techies: All Spells

He explodes whenever he casts a spell (???) .

Fix: He should just have a "stand" animation for all his spells, except Suicide, of course.
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5) Bat Rider: Flaming Lasso

He explodes whenever he casts it (???) .

Fix: Just use his attack animation.
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6) Lord of Olympia: Lightning Bolt

Taken from here. A (big) improvement to his cast animation.

Oooh, shiny!

Fix: Use his "attack slam" animation.

Except for Bat Rider's Flaming Lasso and all of the Techie's animations, the rest of them can be seen in this testmap here.

[Linism]

T-Up to all, especially Axe, I always found that looks damned funny. I'm not a fan of that big flowery flash either, should be something more gorey and bladey if you ask me.

[Nao]

Woah, my lightning bolt suggestion. Haven't seen that in awhile =o

Anyways, I keep forgetting to mention this, but for Tiny's avalanche, his spell animation in the editor is set to "spell" if I recall correctly. It's just that his cast backswing is set to zero and it won't show. (I'll have to double-check a few things just to make sure.) Also, the lucent beam not appearing on a killing blow is really irritating. I think other spells share this problem. If I have time I'll try to list out other visually wrong animations as well.

Edit - Checked, Tiny's cast values won't let him show his animations. Just wanted to mention that in your solutions to fix it. It seems Invoker also suffers the same problem =s

[Fate Trap]

T-up on all

[Nox.knight]

T-up to all,

[dominator02]

everything.

[GrigorevAlex]

1) Axe: Culling BladeYes,T-UP.
2) Moon Rider: Lucent BeamDamn,my English is bad =/,i can't get what about Moon Rider,but I'm sure it deserve a T-UP .
3) Demon Witch: Impale,T-UP.
4) Goblin Techies: All Spells,LOL,yes,he's (their?) cast animation is exploding (because originally have only suicide),T-UP of course.
5) Bat Rider: Flaming LassoSame thing ,T-UP.
6) Lord of Olympia: Lightning BoltT-UP,attack animation isn't looks so good for this spell.
7) Stone Giant: Giving Avalanche and Toss AnimationsIIRC I T-UPed it,T-UP again.

[Linism]

Originally Posted by GrigorevAlex

2) Moon Rider: Lucent BeamDamn,my English is bad =/,i can't get what about Moon Rider,but I'm sure it deserve a T-UP .

He means, if you Lucent Beam an Illusion and kill it, the Illusion disappears and the Lucent Beam's graphic will not be shown, so it looks like Luna killed the Illusion with nothing.

[IAmTheSpoon]

I like how you speak something useful whenever you write something in the forums. Much unlike myself LOL.

[GrigorevAlex]

Originally Posted by linkyaw

He means, if you Lucent Beam an Illusion and kill it, the Illusion disappears and the Lucent Beam's graphic will not be shown, so it looks like Luna killed the Illusion with nothing.

Thx,T-UP of course.

[Zangetsu2201]

T-up to all, awesome and easy fixes. Especially using Zeus' slam animation for his spells.

[FlaMe]

T-up to all.Best visual suggester in this forum!

[Necro]

I like all of those changes, but I honestly love the way Batrider explodes while releasing his Lasso, which fits 'the ends justify the means!'

[virtviuz]

You have my full support on this.

[FunnyWarfare]

t-up, especially zeus is cool

[Fayth]

You have my full support. Insta t-up!

[コクーン]

t UP

[Terresquall]

Anyways, I keep forgetting to mention this, but for Tiny's avalanche, his spell animation in the editor is set to "spell" if I recall correctly. It's just that his cast backswing is set to zero and it won't show. (I'll have to double-check a few things just to make sure.) Also, the lucent beam not appearing on a killing blow is really irritating. I think other spells share this problem. If I have time I'll try to list out other visually wrong animations as well.

Unless Tiny's spells are based off Channel, the animations will still show regardless of whether his spells have a cast point or backswing value. Even if it's based off Channel, giving his spells a Follow Through Time will allow the animation to show. In World Editor, only Channel stops/prevents animations from showing (when an insufficient value of Follow Through Time is given). You can not only see this in Lion's Impale, but also Sniper's Shrapnel and all of Kunkka's spells. Their animations are all cancelled prematurely because their follow through time for their spells are too short. Tiny has 0 follow through time for all his spells, so his animation is cancelled instantly when it comes out.

[Siraraz]

4) Goblin Techies: All Spells

He explodes whenever he casts a spell (???) .

Fix: He should just have a "stand" animation for all his spells, except Suicide, of course.

I like the explosion. It's cute lol <3 Keep Techies As Is.

[SUNG_Chameleon]

Definitely T up to Zeus and Tiny's toss