anyone good at coding animations?

I added a special ability to one of hero and I want my hero to behave a certain animation when he uses that special ability, so I added an animationstate for that special ability.
However, he only does the animation when he is NOT selected. So he does the animation correctly if I unselect him (for instance clicking another unit) as soon as I activate the special ability, but he doesn't do the animation if I keep selecting him after activating the special ability.
I'm pretty sure that it's something to with AnimationState = SELECTED, so I took out AnimationState = SELECTED completely and then he does the animation even if hes selected, however it isn't a nice way because there will be no "selected" animation obviously.
Does anybody have any idea for this?

I added a special ability to one of hero and I want my hero to behave a certain animation when he uses that special ability, so I added an animationstate for that special ability.
However, he only does the animation when he is NOT selected. So he does the animation correctly if I unselect him (for instance clicking another unit) as soon as I activate the special ability, but he doesn't do the animation if I keep selecting him after activating the special ability.
I'm pretty sure that it's something to with AnimationState = SELECTED, so I took out AnimationState = SELECTED completely and then he does the animation even if hes selected, however it isn't a nice way because there will be no "selected" animation obviously.
Does anybody have any idea for this?

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Try:
AnimationState = SELECTED USING_SPECIAL_ABILITY

or if it's a special weapon:

AnimationState = SELECTED SPECIAL_WEAPON_n (n being the special weapon number)

thx pabtyf.
I tried that but it didn't work.
I think it's because the special ability that I added is a one-off abilty, not something like Aragorn's blade master or Legolas's knife fighter.
I'm doing something like giving Legolas's arrow storm ability to Elrond.

Did you try putting SELECTED after the ability:

AnimationState = USING_SPECIAL_ABILITY SELECTED

I'm guessing that you'd have to duplicate the anims for when he's not selected but doing his power, and add selected after all animation states. e.g.

UNPACKING PACKING_TYPE_1 SELECTED

PREPARING PACKING_TYPE_1 SELECTED

PACKING PACKING_TYPE_1 SELECTED

Bit of a hassle but it might do it. (don't know why legolas hasn't got it though??)

I got it working. It seems that where to add animationstates in ini matters a lot. I added new animation states after Animationstate = SELECTED but when I added them before Animationstate = SELECTED, it worked! Thanks for the help pabtyf anyways

so, what was the special power you were adding to someone? huh huh?

Come on, i won't tell anyone....

He said it was Arrow storm for Elrond, or like that.
And Shelob, if he told you here he would tell everyone.