Trying to synchronize animation with y-axis movement

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By Andriel Date 2013-04-21 07:30 Edited 2013-04-22 11:48

So I was trying to animate the elevator winches, like this (in the case script):

effect.animation_id = elevator -> PlayAnimation(anim, 5, GetWinchSpinAnimationPosition(anim), Anim_Linear(0, 0, 1000, 5, ANIM_Remove));

(inside an fx$effect$start)
and

func GetWinchSpinAnimationPosition(string anim, int pos)
{
  var dir = -1;
  if(GetComDir() == COMD_Down) dir = +1;
  return Anim_Y(pos, 0, GetAnimationLength(anim), 50*dir);
}

Pretty much copied from the Clonk's scaling animation, however, the winches won't turn. It works with PlayAnimation("winchSpin", 5, Anim_Linear(0,0, GetAnimationLength("winchSpin"), 10, ANIM_Loop), Anim_Const(1000)), and I checked all the functions were called, so what's the problem here?

By Zapper

Date 2013-04-22 09:05

Mh, you want to animate the base building using the Y position of the case, right?
I am not sure whether that works. Anim_Y itself is pretty context insensitive.
You could try moving the elevator base up and down with the mouse - if the winches start spinning, you are using the elevator bulding's position instead of the case's.

ck, does that work somehow?

By Clonk-Karl [de]

Date 2013-04-22 14:47

It should work the way Andriel has it. Anim_Y takes the Y position of the calling object, not the Y position of the object whose mesh is being animated.

By Clonk-Karl [de]

Date 2013-04-22 14:45

Why are you using Anim_Linear(0, 0, 1000, 5, ANIM_Remove) instead of Anim_Const(1000) (as you have it in the working version) for the animation weight? This will remove the animation after only 5 frames.

By Andriel Date 2013-04-24 16:52

I took it from the Clonk's scaling animation.
Even if the animation was played for just 5 frames, you would see the 5 frames. But it doesn't even start the animation.

By Clonk-Karl [de]

Date 2013-04-24 17:22

Can you send to me the modified elevator? I'll have a look.

The difference to the Clonk is that the Clonk is making a transition from another animation (walking/hangling/or whatever it was doing before climbing), and that transition takes 5 frames. After those 5 frames the previous animation is removed.

By Andriel Date 2013-04-24 17:31

Here you are.

Attachment: Elevator.ocd.zip (1038k)

By Clonk-Karl [de]

Date 2013-05-02 12:32

Looks like I was wrong and Zapper was right after all -- it takes the Y position of the elevator, and not that of the elevator case. I thought it was different. In any case this should be easy to change... I'll do that

By Pyrit Date 2013-05-02 18:40

Does Anim_Y really take the y-position of an object for animation? It didn't work for me when I was moving a clonk in y-direction with SetPosition(). Only when I added SetYDir() it got animated.

By Clonk-Karl [de]

Date 2013-05-02 20:02

Yes, it uses ydir to decide how much to advance the animation.

Topic General / Help and Questions / Trying to synchronize animation with y-axis movement

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