Please can someone help me with some script. I have this script below.



I have been a programmer for some years and unless I am going potty this code says that if the player is further away than 200 then the animation will play. But it is the opposite, if the player is closer than 200 the animation plays.

Now I want the animation to play when the player is closer than 200 and this was the only way to do it, but it is driving me crazy. I know this is simple bit of code but it just doesn't seem to be right.

PlayerDist > 200 should not be in brackets if i remember right.

@ Taz
Ignore if you want to play anim once or you want to loop anim.

Attached script.



If you want to loop anim, then it should looks like this:




uploading video to yt. I'll post when done.



hth


Not exactly. You enclose some statement when there are many condiction, and you want evaluate one firts than the others. IE:



Here you want evaluate firts, "hasKey==1", if true, then evaluate the others one, if does not, not worth bothering..

3com

True, but we aren;'t talking about a script with multiple checks, there was only check, so he didn't need it

Certainly, does not.

3com

That's a very broken way to fix that problem :p
Not a good idea to call those commands repeatedly like that, it would use up a lot of resources if used in too many scripts.

What you need to do is make sure the command is only called if the animation is not already playing (assuming you wanted it to repeat for the duration the player is close enough) or simply toggle the condition to no longer be true after it has been triggered (even in such a way that it can no longer trigger again maybe?).

The play animation call will repeatedly try to run the animation every time it is called, therefore it is stuck in the first frame and appears not to be animating, once you move away the last call is still active and thus the animation plays... Making it look like the condition is reversed but its simply the way the call works.
An easy example of this is the play sound call. You will notice a weird buzzing if the command is called repeatedly and when you move away the sound is played normally, this is because of the same trait.

So basically you want to enclose the commands inside an extra check - by default GG scripts use
if g_Entity[e]['animating'] == 0 then
Because this automatically gets reset to 0 by the engine once the entity stops animating.
Just remember to also set it to a value once you have called the play animation command (it doesn't change by default I assume because it allows you to set values and easily grab which animation is playing based on those).

On phone so forgive any error but the script will look something like this.
if GetPlayerDistance(e) < 200 then
if g_Entity[e]['animating'] == 0 then
SetAnimation(0)
PlayAnimation(e)
g_Entity[e]['animating'] = 1
end
end

Wow that sparked off a bit of a discussion.

Thanks to everyone for all your input. So it looks like all I needed to do was put another condition in checking to see if the entity was animating.

You already stated it, in your snippe script:

Well, not right done but you has the idea. I've notice the typo, but forguet to add as condiction. Sorry, Smallg is right about.
You should add: g_Entity[e]['animating'] = 1 instead.

3com

You would think after all the years of programming that I would get LUA more easily, but it seems things that might have worked in say C#, VB or many other languages need a bit extra to work in LUA.

Anyway thanks everyone, it is working perfectly now.

Maybe if I concentrated on the language for a while instead of modelling I might get better at it sooner, but I don't want to. I am enjoying the modelling too much.