Hello everyone.
I am just wondering, can I make an animation play once? I have a entity that has a specific animation to play when activated by a trigger zone, and it should only play once, but the animation seems to loop over and over when activated. Is there a way to make it play once? If there is a way, how?

This twitch broadcast Lee did a short while ago should tell you what you need to know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B6lefpnVN8

When you create your .fpe file for the animated entity you should put playanimineditor = 1 at the end of it. If you do this the animation will only play once when you want it to.

I'm pretty sure that's not how that fpe command works.

It's the command to set the initial idle animation of the entity.

playanimineditor = 1 plays the animation listed under "Anim0 = " in the fpe, in a loop continuously, unless overridden in the script.

Belidos is correct.

For your request simply open the script, find where it says
PlayAnimation(e)
And add
Destroy(e)
Right below it.

I thought that command was fairly explanatory playanimineditor= play anim in editor. So it plays in the editor, if set to 0 it doesn't play in the editor. This was to help with the editor speed, which as you know can get very creaky indeed. It wasn't intended to be used for in game animation.

@ smallg, that solution sounds wrong. Surely if you do that, the object will be removed instantly? I would add a simple flag to check if it has played or not myself.

In init
played=0

In main loop

If played==0 then
PlayAnimation(e)
played=1
end

Fairly easy for one off animations. You can also add more options so it plays when you want it to.

It's supposed to be exactly that, but it does not quite work like that. It also controls the idle in the test if you are not controlling an idle via LUA, ie: if you use that command in the FPE with an idle animation under "Anim0 =" but only give the entity a default.lua script, then it will loop the Anim0 animation in the test as well.

he's using a zone so it would destroy/remove the zone, same end result as your solution but easier to implement

I am sorry if I confused anything by what I have said, I have had a bad couple of weeks.

Ah I see. Probably a bug then, it really should only apply to the editor. One to add to the list if it isn't already on the list

[/quote]he's using a zone so it would destroy/remove the zone, same end result as your solution but easier to implement.I am sorry if I confused anything by what I have said, I have had a bad couple of weeks[quote=]

I'm sure no one thinks you gave bad info here. Game Guru has many quirks and you could be quite correct for all I know. It certainly doesn't hurt checking an object's FPE file out to fix issues. Sometimes you need to change them to get things working correctly. Always useful info for new users.

I'm sure Slender1200 will get it sorted between us all.

Edit
Not quite sure what has happened to the quotes I'm sure you all get the idea.