Python confusion

[D'Lanor]

Most common cause of crashing after adding an animation: Remember to make the animated object an actor. And sdlname must be just the name not the whole line from the sdl file.

sdlname: WindowOpen

[Justintime9]

well, it exported fine, but when I got to the window, it was looping: Opening, and rather than closing, starting back at the starting point. Also, the button didn't work, it was stretched, and too big.

The empty I used, I put in the button, with the Y axis pointing away from it, and the only thing I changed was the name (no logic properties), so that may be the reason for the non-clickableness.

As far is it's largeness, I recall hearing something about changing transform properties. And the looping, I don't know why this happens, for as you can see, there's a script telling it not to loop.

[D'Lanor]

I thought it was just a forum copy/paste thing but if your Alcscript really looks like that the indentation is completely wrong. That is why it still loops. Proper indentation would be:

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BayWindow:
    animations:
      - name: WinOpen
        autostart: 0
        loop: 0

Press ctrl+a and apply scaling to the button. And if it has no hotspot, did you follow the tutorial for making clickables?

[Justintime9]

Well, I fixed the AlcScript, made sure the Empty was in the right place, and an actor, scaled the region better, rotated it so the local Y axis is pointing away from the button, and applied Scale and rotation. When I linked in, I saw that the button was the correct size and shape, but unfortunately it wasn't clickable, and the window still loops. Everything seems to be set correctly. Any idea what could be wrong now?

[D'Lanor]

I have no idea why your animation still loops. Unless you made an error in the object reference. Did you add the ipo to an empty as a parent for the animation? Then that empty is the object you need to reference in your animation script.

And try doing the clickable without facing condition first. An error in the facing condition will break clickability.

[Justintime9]

I decided to start all over, referring to Andy Legate's tutorial this time. (same quickscript you provided.) I noticed that some things were missing from the code, and I assume they were unnecessary, taken out for simplicity sake. Here's my code now:

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BayWindow:
    animations:
        - name: WindowAnim
          autostart: 0
          loop: 0
   
WindowButton:
    quickscript:
        stateanimation:
            objectname: BayWindow
            region: WinReg
            sdlname: WindowOpenVis
            avatar:
                animation: DoorButtonTouch
                animtarget: AvatarEmpty
            forewards:
                animation: WindowAnim
            backwards:
                animation: WindowAnim


Before I exported it, I deleted the save file of the age. I also added "Vis" after "WindowOpen (sdlname). Aparently one of these things worked, because when I linked in, the window wasn't looping and was in the closed position. However, the button still doesn't work! I have the Empty about 2 feet away from it, Y axis pointing away, it's an actor, as well as the region, button, and the window. Am I supposed to have the region's Local Y axis pointing away from the button, because if not, this may be the problem.

Edit: Perhaps it'd be easier to identify the problem if you take a look at the blendfile: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a8f7 ... 6e282a0ee8

[Corvus]

I'm a complete layman here, but comparing your alcsript with mine for a door button I would guess you are missing this:

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WindowButton:
    physical:
        pinned: true
 
 

[Justintime9]

Well, I added it to the end of the script like so:

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WindowButton:
    quickscript:
        stateanimation:
            objectname: BayWindow
            region: WinReg
            sdlname: WindowOpenVis
            avatar:
                animation: DoorButtonTouch
                animtarget: AvatarEmpty
            forewards:
                animation: WindowAnim
            backwards:
                animation: WindowAnim
                WindowButton:
                    physical:
                        pinned: true

(I also tried making it line up with "backwards", but neither worked.) Is it supposed to be a seperate script?

[Corvus]

Yes, it goes separate. This is how mine looks:

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[D'Lanor]

No, it should not be a separate script. Each object should have a single alcscript. Sometimes PyPRP appends scripts but in most cases one will override the other. You are taking a big gamble there. I think it just happens to work with Corvus' quickscript because quickscripts are usually set to append.