hello all, hope this is in the right post. I have this character that with the help of some kind folks from the forums was able to get it in gameguru. I have the animations set in the fpe and the lua and they appear to be correct but when a go to testplay, the character does not show any animations. He kinda just floats around and hits you but with no animations at all. I was just wondering if any one may have had this issue and has some advice? The animations are not stock animations of gamegure. They came with the character along with an animation frame doc and they do match up in the lua and fpe. Thanks guys

Can you post the fpe and the script so we can see?

yes smallg, thank you. Attachments below.

oops I posted the files lol thought it would be the images. Not sure how to do that i guess. Im such a newb/

Main is run very frame so if you have PlayAnimation being called every frame then the animation is re-started every time.

You need to monitor the animation frame number and only call PlayAnimation when the previous animation has completed.

If using LoopAnimation you only need to call it once so have it inside an 'if not animating' check.

Hope that all makes sense.

Edited to add:
Now I've had a closer look at the Lua script it appears there are enough checks to avoid the problems I highlighted above (they are the traps I usually fall into), it appears the SetCharacterToWalk(e) bit is only triggering the animation once rather than repeatedly, not sure why that should be the case.

Thank you kindly amen moses for the reply. I have been reading up on lua and trying to figure it out but just cant seem to get it I will keep at it tho. I thank you

script seems to work fine so i would check you definitely exported the animations along with the model.

how did you export the model? I had similar issue where if I didn't export groups the animations didn't play but just floats around, not sure if this is same problem but thought I should mention it just in case

animmax is set to 1? I always set to number of total animations + 1

Thanx smallg and bored. I ran it through fragmotion to check the frame numbers and they are correct as far as the animation doc. I messed around and attached the murkscreamer script to him and he actually did a couple animation like move left and swung an arm but there was nothing else. How do u check to see, or export animations with the model? Sorry is all kinda new to me but am learning thanks to you guys.

I've attached my version of Lees ai_vewanimations script , with it you can see and test all the animations but I think there might be some subtle bug surrounding the CharacterControlLimbo(e) command, i.e. when you then use CharacterControlUnarmed(e) later in the script is doesn't seem to re-enable the animations correctly.

thank you very much amenmoses

Hey guys, the character works and moves and animates and all is well. New problem tho. He does not deal any damage when he attacks you. I can put another script on him and he deals damage to you. but if i take that same script and make changes to the right attack animations and such, he deals no damage. Anyone know why this may be?

your script uses 4 conditions before it will apply damage


now if you apply a sound at slot 1 then does it play when you see him attack? if so then all conditions are being met, if not then one or more are not true.

most likely 'if GetPlayerDistance(e) < 90 then' is fine because that is already checked once to trigger the attack animation beforehand.
also again the 'ai_soldier_state[e]' should equal "attack" as this is set when the attack animation is called.
the timer might be an issue as it is set to 1s delay each time but only gets reset once the damage has applied so it should apply at least some of the time (if the animation is short/fast).
and finally the animation frames for 'damageframestart[e]' and 'damageframeend[e]' must be inside the 'attackstart[e]' and 'attackend[e]' range (which they are in the script posted above, so shouldnt be an issue but is the most likely issue, double check for mistakes).

1 more thing to consider is that the player is temporarily immune to damage on respawn.

other than that, can't see any obvious issues with the script

great smallg, that worked. He now beats me down lol but now it seems he cant be killed no matter how many time i hit him he wont die. Last problem i think, i hope

turn always active off or set a condition in the script to handle him dying when health goes below 1.

funny thing is if i use the rpg or grenades, he dies how he is supposed to. But i tried the shotgun with 200 rounds and the uzzi but those dont seem to kill him. always active is set to no. the set a condition part confuses me lol

ah you're using a new script and this one has a command to reset the health at line 24 which is being called every frame

you should remove this and it will be fine.

for future reference to check an entity is dead you can do this (only needed if you set something always active)

Looking at the ai_soldier script it has a bit you are missing:

if string.find(string.lower(g_Entity[e]['limbhit']), "head") ~= nil then
ai_soldier_state[e] = "deathanim"
PlayCharacterSound(e,"onDeath")
... etc ...
ResetLimbHit(e)
end
end

Presumably you need something similar with cases of 'limb' and 'body' assuming of course the ai is setting those for your model (it must have to know where the limbs etc are!).

btw, this bit:

rndx=math.random(1,360)
rndz=math.random(1,360)
rndx2=math.sin(rndx)*30
rndz2=math.cos(rndz)*30
AIEntityGoToPosition(EntObjNo,g_PlayerPosX+rndx2,g_PlayerPosZ+rndz2)

Would be better as:
local angle = math.random() * 2 * math.pi
AIEntityGoToPosition(EntbjNo, g_PlayerPosX+ math.sin (angle) * 30, g_PlayerPosZ + math.cos(angle) * 30)

Hey all, Want to thank you amenmoses and smallg, you guys have been a great help. He is working just fine now. Thank you again.

No problem,.

You could help me back actually, from the model I assume you are developing some sort of fantasy style game, well I posted on the product chat forum about the radar pack I am developing and was wondering about how to have a sort of fantasy radar system, maybe some sort of crystal ball looking device or a magical lens or something.

If you have any ideas I'd be interested as the standard radar system doesn't really lend itself to the fantasy genre does it.

Maybe a magical map like in Harry Potter? Could have the ai script for each character type set an array item identifying what they are then have a small sprite appear on the map indicating their position in real time.

I wouldn't be able to get it in the first release unless it was relatively simple, the real time killer is developing the sprites as I'm not very artistic.