my fishy wont move (importing animations)

[eskarn]

ok so i have a fishy and he moves just fine in the animation browser but he doesn't move in game

why wont my fishy move

 

[YoYoBatty]

You have to make an actor that extends the FloatyClot actor which extends the Decoration actor and change the mesh to your fish mesh. Also put this code in and compile it:

simulated function PostBeginPlay()
{
if( Level.NetMode!=NM_DedicatedServer )
LoopAnim('REPLACE WITH YOUR ANIMATION NAME!');
}
If you are wondering why it doens't play in the ed is because anything intended to move in game won't in the editor.

 

[eskarn]

ah ok all i missed was the FloatyClot i just had it in decorations cool cheers now all i need is for those bots to work

 

[eskarn]

ok i got another quest how do you trigger and animation

 

[Falidell]

well what you can do is make your fishy a pawn subclass just a quicky subclass pawn with the mesh and texture set no other code.

then what you can do is when you want to trigger the animation just use the scripted trigger and the action you will be looking for is Action_PlayAnim

you can set that trigger to loop, or play a certain amount of play iterations via AnimIterations

stuff like that.... =)

so again
thing you want to play an animation when triggered needs to be a pawn subclass(i think it could be a deco, im not sure thats why i say it needs to be a pawn subclass.. feel free to try the floatyclot subclass if you please)

and to trigger animation

Scripted trigger
(0)Action_WaitForEvent
(1)Action_PlayAnim
(2)"whatever the heck you want :P "

 

[ro_sauce]

here's what i used. copied an edited from the wikishark, and then tested and tried and recompiled.

//=============================================================================
// Dancer.
//=============================================================================
class dancer extends Decoration;

#exec texture   IMPORT      NAME=dancerbody  FILE=Textures\Dancer_body_2.dds


#exec DECAANIM  IMPORT      ANIM=Dances ANIMFILE=models\dances.PSA COMPRESS=1
#exec ANIM SEQUENCE ANIM=Dances SEQ=s_cheer2 GROUP= RATE=20.000000
#exec DECAANIM  DIGEST      ANIM=Dances VERBOSE USERAWINFO

#exec DECAMESH  MODELIMPORT MESH=Dancer MODELFILE=models\dancer2.PSK
#exec DECAMESH  ORIGIN      MESH=Dancer X=0 Y=0 Z=0 YAW=0 PITCH=0 ROLL=0
#exec DECAMESH  scale       MESH=Dancer X=1.0 Y=1.0 Z=1.0
#exec DECAMESH  DEFAULTANIM MESH=Dancer ANIM=dances
#exec DECAMESH  SETTEXTURE  MESH=Dancer NUM=0 TEXTURE=Dancer_body_2
#exec DECAMESH  SETTEXTURE  MESH=Dancer NUM=1 TEXTURE=Dancer_body_2

simulated function PostBeginPlay()
{
    LoopAnim('s_cheer2');
    Super.PostBeginPlay();
}

 

[Raziel]

then what you can do is when you want to trigger the animation just use the scripted trigger and the action you will be looking for is Action_PlayAnim

Tried this some time ago, but looping the animation didn't work.
The pawn froze at the end of the animation and did float around the map from time to time.
Did you manage to set up a looped animation like this ? Not sure what I've done wrong.

 

[ro_sauce]

simulated function postbeginplay()

event trigger(actor other, pawn eveninstigator)
{
playanim('animationsequencename', 1.00)
}

oops, you want it to trigger and loop, so instead of playanim, use loopanim.
you can also specify the framerate it plays and umm, other stuff.
someone please correct me if i'm wrong, i'm ultra noob at coding right now.