Triggering Events Using Animations

#1 Hi Thomas,
here's what I'm doing for UnEarthed gods.

in the function
void Player::updateActionThread()

right before

// Only need to deal with triggers for footprints on the client
   if (isGhost())  {

add this chunk of code:

if(isServerObject())
   {
		//CLINT  spell casting animation specific.
		//game specific controlled by server
		//check for trigger 1 through 32
		for(U32 trig = 1 ; trig < 32 ; trig ++)
		{
			if(mShapeInstance->getTriggerState(trig))
			{
				Con::executef(mDataBlock,3,"onAnimationTrigger",scriptThis(), Con::getIntArg(trig));
			}
		}
   }

then in script somewhwere add the function to your player's datablock

function Armor::onAnimationTrigger(%this, %obj, %trigger)
{
	//a trigger from an animation has fired off.
	//1 and 2 are used for r & l footsteps for decals etc

       //if trigger = whatever do whatever
	if(%trigger == 6)
	{
		//do something
	}
	else if(%trigger == 7)
	{
		//do something
	}


}

I don't think there was anything else I had to do to make this work, but it was a while ago, let me know if it works for you.

#2 If we want to have more than one type of armor class as an AI in aiplayer.cs, how do I add support for another one? I mean by default you just say "create an AI" and the engine already knows what character to use for it, as defined at the top of aiplayer.cs.

However, We already have an NPC using the RPGdialouge Editor resource, and that means we already have committed that one faithful slot to him."

I want to run the creature as an AI that just sits there, but animates and everything as a player would

Your script should work for the AI player, if I put the new function in the creature's armor definition in player.cs