ChangeAnimation()

[Salk]

Hello!

Quick question: does this action actually destroy the current creature calling it replacing it with another one?

I'm asking because I am checking some code and I see the following:

ChangeAnimationNoEffect("JA#KEELX")

This is in the override script of JA#KEELO.CRE. This creature is spawned regularly at install time while JA#KEELX.CRE is not.

Thanks!

[jmerry]

ChangeAnimation replaces the creature, while maintaining it as the same object in some sense; spells on the creature, for example, stick around. This can be problematic; I've had issues with mages converting to other creatures and their defensive buffs becoming impossible to remove.

[Salk]

Thanks, jmerry.

In this particular case, I don't think there should be any kind of problems, but I wanted to make sure that ChangeAnimation() was going to do what I suspected.