If [enter action here] then animate mesh
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| I'm not at all new to Blitz3D, but I am somewhat new to using the animate command. I've played with this command on and off over the years but never really used it with any of my projects. I know how to extract animation sequences from an animated mesh and I know how to call them into play using animate mesh,1,.5,anim_seq but my problem is that I want to animate things while a certain action (or event) is playing... Like say while the up key is being pressed, I want to play the walking animation. or while the player mesh is in the air and not colliding with the ground, I want the falling animation to play (or the jumping animation, if a jump action is taking place) But it seems that when using the animate command it animates when something calls it into action and it doesn't stop until some other command tells it to do so... Its a bit hard to explain... but I'd like to use my code like this: if keydown(200) then animate player,1,.5,anim_run else animate player,1,.5,anim_stand end if But it doesn't seem to be as simple as that... It seems I would have to set up some kind of complex flag system for when the up button is being pressed, and if the up button is released to switch the animation sequence from running to standing (or other) But there's got to be a more simpler way to doing this... Am I right? |
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| you could be right, it's beyond me. |
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| that reply was very insightful and helpful. Thanks :P |
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| There are many ways of doing this. However, By keeping the current animation sequence id stored in a flag, and using the Animating command to check if the entity is currently animating it makes things much easier. Note it's been a long time since I've used blitz3d but what I used to do was something along the lines of this:
;pseudo code
;in your loop
if keydown(walk key) then
moving=true
if my current sequence is not walking then set the animation sequence to walk mode - looped
elseif my current sequence is walking then do nothing..as it is already looped
else
moving=false
if my current sequence is idle then do nothing as it is already looping
if my current sequence is not idle then set it to idle, and looped
endif
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| You are constantly calling the Animate command which resets the animation. What you need to do is call it once when you want to start it. I'm sure you can figure out a system to do that. |
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so pretty much this works:If KeyDown(200) Then If AnimSeq(mesh)<>anim_walk Then Animate mesh,1,1,anim_walk Else If AnimSeq(mesh)<>anim_stop Then Animate mesh,1,.2,anim_stop EndIf thanks! :) |
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| Just check if current animseq matches desired action ; seq 1 walk ; seq 2 idle ; seq 3 run ; seq 4 jump If unit\isidle=False If isjumping=True If AnimSeq(unit\mesh)<>4 Then Animate unit\mesh,1,2,4,0 EndIf If running=True If AnimSeq(unit\mesh)<>3 Then Animate unit\mesh,1,1.4,3,0 EndIf If running=False If AnimSeq(unit\mesh)<>1 Then Animate unit\mesh,1,1.4,1,0 EndIf EndIf If unit\isidle=True If AnimSeq(unit\mesh)<>2 Then Animate unit\mesh,2,.4,2,4 EndIf |
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save those calls by retrieving the value into a variable:currentAnim = AnimSeq(Unit\mesh)
If Not unit\isIdle and isJumping Then
If currentAnim <> 4 Then [...]
Endif
[...] |
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| Anyway, you would have to check the value of animseq() or "currentanim" in each loop, before animating... |
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| Use the Animating() command. It tells you if the mesh is animating or not. As is: If KeyDown(200) If Animating(player) = False Animate player,1,.5,anim_run End If Else If Animating(player) = False Animate player,1,.5,anim_stand End If End If |
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