Where am I in a animation sequence?
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| Ok, how does one find the position (frame) in a animation sequence? Would be nice if the animating command returned the frame rather than true or false. |
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| You'll be wanting AnimTime() |
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| You can also use animSeq to return the current sequence being played. |
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| In general, if you want advanced control over animations use SetAnimTime to animate. |
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| AnimTime (dont think you can get current frame) although from what ive found it returns a float.. i tried just returning a [int]..i couldnt get it to work.. so i best guess it..i even tried noting the play back rate in lightwave based on 24 fps to see which frame was playing at a certain time..so i guess in principle if you set up a game timer to 30fps set up your playback rate in your 3d package to 30 fps and note the times and anim frames this might help so if theres a frame in the cycle you want, note the time in your 3d package say its 7.38 secs then use animtime to grab it cycle=animtime(mesh) if cycle=7.38 then blah blah blah ..i think that makes sense :) |
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| Tiler, it does return the frame, but it might be one of the generated in-between frames, it's pretty smart, Blitz calculate the frame that fit exactly to the time. I just don't get why it's named AnimTime and not AnimFrame. |
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