Could someone post their animation lua script as an example?

[Argorius]

I am trying to get animation to work on the crawler in lua - could someone post their lua script for an animated character model? I would like to use it as a template for mine and learn from it. At the moment I have no idea what exactly I need to code this and what all goes in it!

[Marleys Ghost]

Have a look HERE.

[VicToMeyeZR]

Thats what I thought 2 days ago. It really is easy, well easier than I thought at first.

 

I do still have a lot to add to it, and I plan to integrate Rick's character scripts in a way to control the character better.

[Rick]

I do still have a lot to add to it, and I plan to integrate Rick's character scripts in a way to control the character better.

 

I'm excited to see what you come up with man!

[AggrorJorn]

I use this code for looped animation:

require("scripts/class")

local class=CreateClass(...)

function class:CreateObject(model)
local object=self.super:CreateObject(model)

function object:Render()
	frame = (AppTime()/34.0) % (120-0) + 1
	model:Animate( frame, 1,0, 1 )		
end

function object:Free(model)
	self.super:Free()
end

end

[Argorius]

Thanks! Great examples. The shorter one works great (but I havent been able to use it on my Dexsoft model - but I probably didnt do the conversion right).

 

The longer one gives an error (I fixed what was wrong with it as suggested). An empty box pops up and wants me to hit OK. I'll have to dissect that and see if I can make it work.

[Michael Betke]

Thanks for the script Aggor.

Could you please go intop detail what this does:

function object:Render()
               frame = (AppTime()/34.0) % (120-0) + 1
               model:Animate( frame, 1,0, 1 )

 

I would like just to run frame 1-500. What should I enter?!

[AggrorJorn]

Thanks for the script Aggor.

Could you please go intop detail what this does:

function object:Render()
               frame = (AppTime()/34.0) % (120-0) + 1
               model:Animate( frame, 1,0, 1 )

 

I would like just to run frame 1-500. What should I enter?!

Sorry I should have explained it a bit better. This line

 frame = (AppTime()/34.0) % (120-0) + 1

should be used as follow:

frame = (AppTime()/speed of animation) % (endframe-startframe) + startframe

In your case:

 frame = (AppTime()/50.0) % (500-0) + 1

 

I don't know more then that at the moment. I'll try to work out how this exactly works.

Using the Render function like this will result in an enormous speed increase (got that line from Josh), because you can have tons of offscreen characters that don't have to be animated.

[Michael Betke]

Thanks.

THis is good enought for me to mess around with it.

[VicToMeyeZR]

 

 

The longer one gives an error (I fixed what was wrong with it as suggested). An empty box pops up and wants me to hit OK. I'll have to dissect that and see if I can make it work.

 

That was a debug so I could see if my value of framestart or frameend was being set...

 

I you find the Notify() and put a -- in front of it, and change this line:

 

    function object:GetKey(key,value)
               if key=="idle_start" then
                       return self.idle_start
               elseif key=="idle_end" then
                       return self.idle_start

 

to :

    function object:GetKey(key,value)
               if key=="idle_start" then
                       return self.idle_start
               elseif key=="idle_end" then
                       return self.idle_end

 

It will work.

 

Then you can double click in the character in the objects window, and set your frame start and ends for each function.

 

Right now, all the guy does is idle animate, and yes its a dexsoft model, so theirs do work, just requires little fix with the textures.

 

When I get the controller to work with this, I will post it again for everyone to play with if they want.

[VicToMeyeZR]

I'm excited to see what you come up with man!

 

 

Me to.

 

I really like Lua. mostly because I am a scripter, not a programmer. lol