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A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:52 pm
by di gama
Unfortunately, I'm a noob when it comes to animations, and I could use a
simple example of an AlcScript-only method (I'm told this is possible) to animate an object based on a clickable trigger. Here's the scenario: I want object Button to be clickable within ClickRegion, causing objects Door1 and Door2 to move along their respective animations (IPO curves), Door1Anim and Door2Anim. What AlcScript would work with this? This is my current script, which does not work:
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Button:
logic:
modifiers:
- cursor: poised
flags:
- localelement
activators:
- type: objectinvolume
remote: ClickRegion
triggers:
- any
conditions:
- type: activator
activators:
- type: picking
- type: objectinbox
satisfied: true
actions:
- type: responder
ref: :DoorOpen
actions:
- type: responder
name: DoorOpen
responder:
states:
- cmds:
- type: animcmdmsg
params:
receivers:
- 006D:Door1
animname: Door1
cmds:
- continue
waiton: -1
- type: animcmdmsg
params:
receivers:
- 006D:Door2
animname: Door2
cmds:
- continue
waiton: -1
nextstate: 1
waittocmd: 0
curstate: 0
flags:
- detecttrigger
Door1:
animations:
- name: Door1
autostart: 0
loop: 0
Door2:
animations:
- name: Door2
autostart: 0
loop: 0
Is this correct? What
should it look like?
Re: A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:51 pm
by Nadnerb
I don't see a problem with your script... do you have objects for all of the pieces? is the region in the right place? No scale or rotation on it?
Re: A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:05 pm
by di gama
Here is a simple blender file with the AlcScript above. As you can see, the button (the cube at the end of the strip) appears to be clickable, but nothing happens. The two cubes to the side are Door1 and Door2, and are supposed to move apart when the button is clicked.
Re: A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:23 am
by di gama
Apparently, you need PyPRP v1.5.0 to do animations. As a side note, though, all the exports I do with the new version stack-dump if there are any animations. Does anyone know why, or a simple tutorial otherwise? (Again, the wiki's tutorial is, by its own admission not really a tutorial at all, but more a reference with those used to 1.4.0 AlcScript.) A general AlcScript tutorial would be helpful as well.
Re: A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:38 am
by Lontahv
The stack dumping is most likely the cause of not paying proper attention to this
:
"In order for an object to have it's location or rotation animated, it MUST be an Actor. (ie, it must have a CoordinateInterface) Be sure to press the Actor button in the object's logic panel. If an animation tries to run on a non-actor, it will crash the game. "
...in the anim tutorial.
I hope it works now.
Re: A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:50 am
by Zirrus
I just took your AlcScript and made an animated door myself.
One thing i noticed: You told that the Animation name is "Door1Anim" but it is just called "Door1" in the Script.
Now a question: I wanted to add an avatar animation and a sound-emitter to that button...where does the code for that go?
I didn't find a part in that script that is similar to the one of my button...
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Button:
physical:
pinned: true
quickscript:
simpleclick:
region: ClickRegion
soundemitter: Button_Sound
animation: ButtonTouch
animtarget: ButtonAnimStart
autorun: true
An one more question: The door opens now very nicely. But when i press the button once again, it just jumps to the beginning of the animation and plays it once again. How can i make that the door closes on a second press(and then opens again and so on...)
Would i have to control that via playing parts of the animation and then stop it and let it continue, when it closes or can i make several(two) animations that are played alternately?
I just don't get AlcScript.
Re: A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:59 am
by boblishman
Re: A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:27 am
by Zirrus
That's SOME AlcScript.
Thanks!
And it solves all other Problems too! Yay!
Now i gotta learn how to use SDL-States...
Re: A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:01 am
by D'Lanor
Object animation has not been added to the simpleclick quickscript yet. If it does make it there it will most likely be "simple" and do only a single animation. That means it will not work for opening and closing doors.
The alcscript possibilities are growing day by day. Anything that ends up in a quickscipt can only be a simplified and stripped down version. In the end anybody who wants to use alcscript to its full potential must learn it the slow way.
That being said, a separate simpledoor quickscript based on
this wiki example would be useful.
Re: A Noob's Guide to Animations
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:39 am
by Zirrus
Okay, I have a SDL-File that has the name of my age. It looks like this:
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STATEDESC mySDL
{
VERSION 1
#Saving the state of Door1
VAR BOOL DoorSDL[1] DEFAULT=0
}
Is that ok like this?
And then I copied the AlcScript from the Tut into Blender and tried to replace the names of the Objects and so on. And got confused. I don't know if really every "DoorButtonOneshot" has to be replaced, where the animation is specified that should be played and so on. Could someone modify the code to be more general? With <Name of Button> insted of "SWDoorButton" and so on? Those names really confuse me...I would do it immediately if I'd understand where what has to be changed.
I just noticed that some names which are listed above the code are just wrong...i'll try to find out which.