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There is a way to make objects move in the plasma-engine but it is so hard to make your own. The main thing I'm asking for is some 'blank moving object .pak file) that you will be able to use a program to edit it and change: 1. object name to be moved 2. the start and end locations and 3. the speed. I know some python and i think it would be fairly easy.

Using Python to move object is a really really slow and nasty hack.

We're hoping to have real animations working soon, so hopefully no more evil, jerky Python stuff.

So there's no nice little "glRotate()" command (i.e. OpenGL code) you can use to make the skydome turn or anything like that? Ah, a pity...

Wasn't there a "warp" command?

Chacal wrote:Wasn't there a "warp" command?

Yes, there is, but having a smooth animation in Python would really slow down your age due to the inherent slow-ness of the functions involved. The engine has to do a good bit of work to move an object, and it really is much better to use real animations. I would recommend against any such program or pak being used, but knowing how you guys clamor for awesome stuff like animations, I shall simply digress.

At any rate, I'll take a gander at animations the next opportunity that I have unless someone else beats me to it.

I agree doing any sort of animation with Python may be a slow and dirty method, but right now it's the only one we have. (still I agree it should be a priority in the PyPRP work. Along with sounds and texture animation. p )