ACS animation control.

Jehar · Post by **Jehar** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:46 pm

Shot in the dark here.
I think it would be highly advantageous if acs had control over ANIMDEFS animations. Something to the effect of
StartAnim(texture\flat name)
and stop and whathaveyou.
This would give editors to have vast control over when and where animations play, opening up all sorts of possibilities.

Okay. Enough crap. Feature suggesting will get me nowhere. What I really want is some way to accomplish this without the use of line ids.
Any help would be highly cookie-awarding.

EDIT: So as I understand it... there is no way to control when animations play, and they are always going as defined in animdefs.... no control whatsoever... O_o

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:07 am

Jehar wrote: Okay. Enough crap. Feature suggesting will get me nowhere. What I really want is some way to accomplish this without the use of line ids.
Any help would be highly cookie-awarding.

You can't. Without line id's you can't specify the line and hence can't manipulate it.

EDIT: So as I understand it... there is no way to control when animations play, and they are always going as defined in animdefs.... no control whatsoever... O_o

Unless you script your animation yourself. And that's why there is no new feature here. You can do anything you want with a line's texture in a script so there is no need to add anything.

Jehar · Post by **Jehar** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:09 am

Yes, but that would defeat the purpose of having a global animation as opposed to a line-id specific one. Therin lies the problem.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:29 am

Then you have to give all lines you want to animate the same line id. Where's the problem?

Jehar · Post by **Jehar** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:31 am

Animating random lines at random intervals... the way you describe would work, though all lines of like texture would animate at the same time... not quite the effect I wish to achieve.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:43 am

Then give each line a separate line id and animate them separately. There are no simple solutions to issues like this one.

Jehar · Post by **Jehar** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:45 am

I am afraid you are right... I was not going for simple so much as... not so cumbersome and bulky\huge, fugly in general.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:55 am

All you wanted was to move your own dirty work into the engine.

Jehar · Post by **Jehar** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:07 am

Simply because it seems so obvious to have global control over animations. I fail to see why that seems so outrageous. Seems obvious to me, but then again I am tired and bitchy.

Darkhaven · Post by **Darkhaven** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:37 am

Graf Zahl wrote: You can't. Without line id's you can't specify the line and hence can't manipulate it.

In theory, yes you can. For example, you can have a special texture set with a prefix, let's say DRPOCxx (the prefix used for Animations in the Punisher TC), that the script in question checks for on script startup. If the DRPOC number that is referenced in the script is found, it is then manipulated.

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