How to ensure ..

[Alienhead]

An animation plays from the starting frame ?  For example - I call this 

player.entity:PlayAnimation("opendoor", .1, 250, 1)

 

 

Notice this is a single one shot animation, no looping. 

But sometimes it starts at the end, at the middle, at the beginning, sometimes never see any animation at all.  I've experienced this since I first started working with LE. never brought it up as it wasn't that important then, but now its is. 

 

[Alienhead]

Oddly, after loading the same model but using asset_unmanaged - it won't play the animation at all.  This is strange, as I usually always get it to play the animation at some point in the time line. Are the animation shaders tied to each other? Like if I have 10 of the same models loaded and each model is playing a different sequence will that effect each other?  I've not really ran across this problem in LE before, its got me puzzled.  Just to be clear, I've tried many different models so it's not the mesh itself. 

The pic below, shows left mob animated in idle, the right side mob is animated in a non- loop sequence but it won't play.  Every once in awhile I'll get one of the other mobs to play some random location in the sequence.  Ignore the girl in t-pose, I haven't got her turned on in this part.

[Josh]

I think the one-shot animation issue is something I only discovered in the Ultra code that carried over from Leadwerks. The best thing to do here is control the animation frame by setting it in each Update call. You can set the exact frame time of an animation with Entity::SetAnimationFrame

[Alienhead]

That's Update on the world:Update() and not the physics:Update() right ?

[Josh]

Actually, you can use Script:Draw if you keep track of the timing. Then the animation only gets updated when the entity is drawn.

Ultra is so much simpler in some aspects, it just has Update().

[Alienhead]

Oh, nvm... I see now.. ty for the tip.

 

[Alienhead]

12 minutes ago, Josh said:

Actually, you can use Script:Draw if you keep track of the timing. Then the animation only gets updated when the entity is drawn.

Ultra is so much simpler in some aspects, it just has Update().

Yes!  And one day I'll be enjoying what is UltraEngine... just not this day.  

[Josh]

No pressure, I am just observing its wonder and awe 

[Alienhead]

One last question please..

Do I need to frame tween this animation sequence or is the draw command called as the physics block is?

function Script:Draw()

   

 

    if self.anim == "atk_hard" then  -- add more

 

        if player.tmr_frameplay < Time:Millisecs() then

 

            self.entity:SetAnimationFrame(player.atframe, 1.0, self.anim, true)

 

            player.atframe = player.atframe + 1

            player.tmr_frameplay = Time:Millisecs() + 15

 

            local frm = self.entity:GetAnimationLength("atk_hard")

            if player.atframe + 1 > frm then

                self.newanim = "swordidle"

                self.animspeed = oa_idlespeed

                self.animloop = 0

                self.animtrans = 300

                turnoveranim = true

                player.atframe=0

            end

        end

 

    end

 

end

Or : ( with frame tween ) 

function Script:Draw()

       if self.anim == "atk_hard" then  -- add more

 

        if player.tmr_frameplay < Time:Millisecs() then

 

            self.entity:SetAnimationFrame(player.atframe, 1.0, self.anim, true)

 

            player.atframe = player.atframe + 1

            player.tmr_frameplay = Time:Millisecs() + 15 *Time:GetSpeed()

 

            local frm = self.entity:GetAnimationLength("atk_hard")

            if player.atframe + 1 > frm then

                self.newanim = "swordidle"

                self.animspeed = oa_idlespeed

                self.animloop = 0

                self.animtrans = 300

                turnoveranim = true

                player.atframe=0

            end

        end

    end

end

 

 

[Josh]

Since you are adding a fixed amount to the current frame each time, I think you will need to multiply that by the speed to handle differing framerates.

[Alienhead]

Ahh I see what your talking about now.. this is much much smoother and easier to control the speed of the animation.  Thanks again.

 

 

 

function Script:Draw()

    

    if self.anim == "atk_hard" then  -- add more

 

        player.atframe = player.atframe + .1 *Time:GetSpeed()

        self.entity:SetAnimationFrame(player.atframe, 1, self.anim, true)

 

        if player.atframe > self.entity:GetAnimationLength("atk_hard") then  -- end the one-shot

            turnoveranim = true

        end

 

     end

end