Duplicating a dead body

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D_Town_Tony

(Posted 2003) [#1]

In my vs shooter I want the characters to respawn but I want their bodies to remain. I tried using copyentity but it just creates a copy of the character in his regular animation. How do I create a duplicate with the copied body to be in death anim that the character was in when he died? Suggestions please.

Ross C

(Posted 2003) [#2]

Copy the dead body. Then you'll have two copies of the body, in the dead position. Failing that, have two copies of the mesh loaded in, and switch between. I'm not too familar with animation and how they copy....

Beaker

(Posted 2003) [#3]

Leave the body as it is, and then respawn a new one using CopyEntity().

Ross C

(Posted 2003) [#4]

Now why couldn't i have said it that way ;)

Michael Reitzenstein

(Posted 2003) [#5]

I thought the idea was to get rid of the bodies, not make more of them.

Edit: Oh, in Blitz3D.

Jeremy Alessi

(Posted 2003) [#6]

Ricky Smith

(Posted 2003) [#7]

Copy the dead body. Then you'll have two copies of the body, in the dead position.

Not quite , you'll have one dead body and one body that is on the first animation frame of sequence 0.

(tu) sinu

(Posted 2003) [#8]

get the frame of the dead body and animseq and then load a copy and using setanimtime put the new entity in the frame and animseq values to get the new dead body..
Simple :)

*	(Posted 2003) [#9]

I would go with the two meshes idea and have a seperate dead body and replace the animated character with the body as suggested above. I dont know if Blitz will keep trying to animate the corpse otherwise and this may case a speed hit but with a standard mesh there is no trouble.

(tu) sinu

(Posted 2003) [#10]

if you use setanimtime to set it to the right seq and frame, it won't animate again until you keep running setanimtime or animate on the new deadbody entity.