Animation sets? (Maya)

[TheConceptBoy]

Working on putting together a gun animation, when I found that Leadwerks has a handy too animation sets tool in it's model viewer. 

How does one separate the animations in Maya for Leadwerks to detect? This is a bone rigged pair of hands with a weapon.

 

I'm working in Maya. Not sure if I've ever seen an animation set menu in here.

[TheConceptBoy]

To answer my own question:

When exporting from Maya, all the animations are stored in one single long time-line. So I have to use the  "Extract Sequence" tool in the Leadwerks model viewer to separate them into their own standalone animations.

[Thirsty Panther]

Aggror has a good video on how to do this as well.

 

[TheConceptBoy]

Yes, that's what I've ended up figuring out.

I'm currently trying to figure out how to detect the EndAnimation call of an object in C++ so that I can switch to other stuff once a particular animation is done.

I thought it'd be something like 

if (hands_revolver->EndAnimation("fire")) {}

but there's no documentation example for C++ for this as far as I've looked.

[TheConceptBoy]

Unless I'm getting it wrong and I'm supposed to create a new class that has a function called EndAnimation(string animation) and Leadwerks would detect and trigger that function. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[gamecreator]

Looks like you found another topic on this but yes, you need to keep track of it yourself because animations can be mixed.

I use model->SetAnimationFrame(animationframe, 0.8, animationstate, true) to set a character's animation every frame.  I increment and keep track of animationframe myself based on how much time has passed since last frame.  Then I use model->GetAnimationLength(animationstate) to check if animationframe has exceeded the end of the animation.  If it has, I reduce it appropriately (which isn't necessarily the same as setting it to 0).