Chained character animations

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Avenging Eagle

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Posted: 13th Apr 2017 23:13

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I'd like to chain a series of character animations together into a sequence, playing one after another, perhaps loop one in the middle a couple of times, all while a dialogue track is playing. So far, all I've been able to do is successfully get one animation to loop or play once. Whenever I try to add my own condition like "keyframe [e] =", that doesn't work. I've tried using the "g_Entity[e]['animating'] == 0" flag to detect when the character finishes an animation but that appears to be broken. I've had some success with "g_Entity[e]['frame'] = " but only in so far as I got a prompt to work, I can't seem to call more animation frames. However, I'd rather not use "g_Entity[e]['frame'] = " as a condition as I know it won't work if I chose to loop some of these animations.

Here's what I got so far, but it's a bit messy because I've tried so many different variations.

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local shar_keyframe = {}
 
function shar_monologue_init(e)
shar_keyframe[e] = 1
end
 
function shar_monologue_main(e)
 
 if shar_keyframe[e] == 1 and g_Entity[e]['animating'] == 0 then
 PlaySound(e,1)
 SetAnimationFrames(3110,3420)
 PlayAnimation(e)
 SetAnimationSpeed(e,0.75)
 shar_keyframe[e] = 2  
 
 elseif g_Entity[e]['frame'] >= 3420 then
 StopAnimation(e)
 shar_keyframe[e] = 3
 end
 
 if shar_keyframe[e] == 3 then
 SetAnimationFrames(4470,4535)
 PlayAnimation(e)
 SetAnimationSpeed(e,1)
 shar_keyframe[e] = 4
 Prompt ("???")
 end
 
 end

This will call the animation once and then the prompt, but not the second animation.

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Gtox

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Posted: 14th Apr 2017 06:20 Edited at: 14th Apr 2017 07:39

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Try this

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function animation_init(e)
animating = 0
anim = 1
animStart =0
animEnd = 0
maxAnim = 3
end

function animation_main(e)

if anim == 1 then
	animStart = 5
	animEnd   = 23
elseif anim == 2 then
	animStart = 30
	animEnd   = 69
elseif anim == 3 then
	animStart = 135
	animEnd   = 160
end

SetAnimationFrames(animStart,animEnd)

if animating == 0 then
	PlayAnimation(e)
	animating = 1
end

if GetAnimationFrame(e) == animEnd then
	if anim < maxAnim then
		anim = anim + 1
		animating = 0
		StopAnimation(e)
	end
end

end

edit : the animation frames in the script are for the model I used for testing - just replace them with your own.

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Posted: 14th Apr 2017 19:16

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Thanks, Gtox! I tried to use your script as the basis for my own one that would call animations based on keyframes but it wasn't working so I gave up and have used yours to great effect...even if it's taken me all day to manually edit in all the right animations and speeds (my version now calls a sequence of 31 anims

). The biggest problem was calling the sound file at the right point, but I finally figured it out.

The next problem is to do with camera overrides. I want to freeze the player, drop their height a bit, tilt and roll the camera a bit to simulate the player lying on the floor/having been knocked out, and trigger a fade in. I've got as far as teleporting the player to an object that sits inside a small zone, and that zone runs this script:

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function cinematic_lvl1_init(e)
end

function cinematic_lvl1_main(e)
  if g_Entity[e]['plrinzone']==1 then
     FreezePlayer()
	 HideHuds()
	 RemovePlayerWeapons(e)
	 ActivateIfUsed(e)
     end
end

Adding TriggerFadeIn seems to result in a black screen but I guess that's because the player is frozen in the zone so it's always true and therefore never starts or finishes the fade. I see there are camera override commands but they are giving me...interested results. Has anybody got any experience in using these commands, how do they work?

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Gtox

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Posted: 14th Apr 2017 20:04

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31 animations? That must have been fun. Can't help with camera overrides, sorry.

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Posted: 15th Apr 2017 10:29

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Use
SetFreezeAngle(x,y,z)
SetFreezePosition(x,y,z)
TransportToFreezePosition()
To simulate the getting up part.... Its going to be a bit of fun getting it right I'm sure but there's not really an easy way.

Position works based on position in the map (y is up or down).
Angle works in the view cone so y is left of right and x is up or down but they aren't 0-360.
Best way is to prompt them onscreen (using g_PlayerAngY etc) while you act out the scene and write down any key numbers

lua guide for GG
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=398177770
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Posted: 15th Apr 2017 17:36 Edited at: 15th Apr 2017 17:36

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A little experimentation later and everything is working as it should - thanks for all your help!

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