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ani_die=4,5,0.01
ani_attack=2,3,0.05
Im guessing i need to set the numbers but I am not sure what they mean "ani_move=W,H,A,T"?
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Stranded II General Setting Animations For Units
Setting Animations For Units
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ani_die=4,5,0.01
ani_attack=2,3,0.05
Im guessing i need to set the numbers but I am not sure what they mean "ani_move=W,H,A,T"?
To help you more...
Unit animation is usually a running animation or loop, yet because S2 Units have multiple animations but only one can be saved to the file, you combine all animations in to one animation and use the definitions to specify...
For example:
Your Orca has 30 frames. Let's pretend the moving animation takes 12 frames, attack takes 8 frames and die takes 10 frames, you'd set the animations like this:
<ani_type>=<start frame>, <end frame>, <speed of play>
so in yours, we would put.
ani_move=0, 11, 0.5
ani_attack=12, 19, 1
ani_die=20, 29, 0.5
This is just an example.
A good idea is to make sure all animations start with the unit in the same position. It will look really odd it your unit suddenly jumps four feet forward to die.
If you've made the units yourself, you might have to fiddle with the speed value quite a bit to get the unit to move as you expected. I had an egg walking too slow and in reverse, made it look like it was moonwalking. :p
LoadAnimSeq ( entity,filename$ )
SetAnimKey entity,frame[,pos_key][,rot_key][,scale_key]
AddAnimSeq ( entity,length)
Animate entity,[,mode][,speed#][,sequence][,transition#]
AnimLength ( entity )
AnimTime# ( entity )
Animating ( entity )
The point is im sure with these commands,you can load animations for any model,at any time.I think Bananaman knows how to use them so please post a script of "how to play animation" on_use.
loadani animateloadani unit-TYPE(id), startframe, endframe
this has to be executed BEFORE you actually create the unit. it's recommended to execute it in the on:preload event.
afterwards use animate to actually play or stop the animation:
animate unit-ID, startframe, endframe, speed, mode
mode can be:
0 - just stop the animation (other parameters do not matter anymore in this case)
1 - loop
2 - play forth and back
3 - just play
### Orca
id=500
name=Orca
group=animal
icon=gfx\shark.bmp
model=gfx\Orca.b3d
scale=7
colxr=50
colyr=20
behaviour=watercraft
health=80
speed=2
turnspeed=1
damage=150
ani_move=1,30,0.50
loot=9,3
loot=94,10
script=start
on:preload {
loadani 500,1,30;}
on:use {
animate 500,1,30,50,1;}
}
script=end
replacing the 500 in your on:use event with currentid() [or the id of the unit] should do the job.
I need animation to play on:hitkey or on:holdkey,The Key I will use is "Z" for this question,as in the key list in "sys/keys.inf" says key 21=Z.
I have
on:keyhit21 {
animate currentid(),2,26,10,1;
I realise there must be more to this please help.
scriptkey=ID,Name
ID is just a random value from 0 to 20 and name a name which will be displayed in the options menu.
you then have to go to the options menu in-game and assign a key to it.
THEN you can trigger the related events with the ID (always 2 digits) specified in game.inf
for example:
if you took id 1 then
on:keyhit01 { ... }
or 20:
on:keyhit20 { ... }
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