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by Ryan McKenzie · in Torque Game Builder · 01/21/2007 (10:01 am) · 2 replies

By taking samples of code from the "miniPlatform tutorial". I can easily understand how to make my player animate when responding to keys. But what i'm questioning is how could I arrange the code so that (for example)...when i hit the left key my player will play an animation and as soon as thats finished, follow onto a 2nd animation and then loop the 2nd animation. So how can I script these actions??

Ryan
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Torque Owner Don Schaper
XIX Software
#1
01/21/2007 (9:53 pm)
After you have started the first animation:

function checkIfAnimationIsDone( %firstAnimation )
{
if ( %firstAnimation.getIsAnimationFinished() ) $secondAnimation.playAnimation( secondAnimationDatablock );
else schedule( 30, 0, "checkIfAnimationIsDone", %firstAnimation );
}

There are many ways to script this sort of thing; but the important thing is the "getIsAnimationFinished".

Torque Owner Gellyware
#2
01/22/2007 (1:14 am)
You might want to look into the animation callbacks:



* onAnimationStart(%this)

* onFrameChange(%this, %frameIndex)

* onAnimationEnd(%this) //this is the one you probably are looking for