Mesh current animation frame - B3D

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semar (Posted 2009) [#1]

Hi Blitzers, how can I get the current animation frame of an animated .B3D model ? Suppose this scenario: I have a 3D model of a guy launching a frisbee. I would like that the frisbee is released at a specific frame of the whole animation. How can I achieve that ? I need the current animation frame, but as far as I know, I didn't find any command in the Blitz3D docs. Thanks in advance, Sergio.

PowerPC603 (Posted 2009) [#2]

Are you using tweening? If not, you could use a counter in your mainloop to count the frames. And release the frisbee when the counter hits a certain value (so he'll release the frisbee after some predefined number of frames). Of course, you need to reset the counter to 0 when the animation sequence starts and increase the counter every frame if the character is doing the animation for throwing the frisbee.

neoshaman (Posted 2009) [#3]

AnimTime# ( entity ) Parameters: entity - entity handle Description: Returns the current animation time of an entity.

semar (Posted 2009) [#4]

Thanks folks - AnimTime is exactly what I'm looking for - by the way, in my opinion it should be renamed to AnimFrame instead :) Cheers, Sergio.

Tom (Posted 2009) [#5]

Not AnimFrame because if you're using tweening, your animated mesh won't necessarily be exactly on an integer key frame. A frame is just a quantification of time :)

semar (Posted 2009) [#6]

Ah I've got it now, thanks Tom :)

GIB3D (Posted 2009) [#7]

Well in my opinion it should be GetAnimTime seeing as there is a SetAnimTime command.