Having issues with animation end hook

[Monte]

Hi All,

 

It's my first time here, I have been playing around with LW for a while and just started to tinker with scripting,

I have been modifying the monster ai script but have run into problems with the animation end hook call and need help to work out where I have gone wrong

 

So when I use,

self.baseAnimMgr:SetAnimationSequence(4, 0.03, 200)

 

The animation plays fine but loops which is not what I want, so I'm trying to add the end hook using this,

 

self.baseAnimMgr:SetAnimationSequence(4, 0.03, 200, 1,self,self.EndAttack)

function Script:EndAttack()
if self.state=="attack" then

self.state="idle"

end
end

 

I have already defined the "attack" state in triggering the animation, but, the end hook seems to trigger immediately so only a few frames of the anim plays and resets.

 

Any Help much appreciated

[Jazz]

Looks right to me. All I can suggest is playing with the animation speed (0.03) or using the new animation commands, PlayAnimation and StopAnimation.

[Monte]

Thanks SGB,

 

I tried to use PlayAnimation and kept getting nil value errors so reverted back, I'm beginning to wonder if it is the part of the script these are placed that is the problem,

I currently have call in

function Script:UpdateWorld()

and this

function Script:EndAttack()
if self.state=="attack" then

  self.state="idle"

 end
  end

at the end of the script...

[Jazz]

It may be stuck in attack mode calling the animation constantly. One-shot animations should only be called once. Adding System:Print("end animation") in your EndAttack function will show in the output window if it's getting called. You can try this script on the crawler prefab and see if it helps in any way.

 

Script.mode = "idle"

function Script:UpdateWorld()
   if window:MouseHit(2) then --play crawler attack animation
       self.mode = "attack"
   end

   if self.mode == "attack" then
       self.mode = "Waiting for animation to stop"
       self.entity:StopAnimation()
       self.entity:PlayAnimation("Attack2",0.009,10,1,"EndHit")
   elseif self.mode == "idle" then
       self.entity:PlayAnimation("Idle",0.02)
   end
end

function Script:EndHit()
   self.mode = "idle"
end

function Script:PostRender()
   context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Alpha)
   context:SetColor(1,1,1,1)
   context:DrawText("Mode: "..self.mode, 400, 200)
   context:SetBlendMode(Blend.Solid)
end

[Monte]

Just wanted to say, Thanks SGB,

Haven't got it correctly working yet but will keep going, Lua behaving very strangely.

 

M