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Jonk
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Posted: 10th Jan 2014 17:11
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Bought FPSC Model Pack 53.

I can load the models and textures into DBpro fine, but can't seem to play animations using the usual play command. Am I missing something or are theses models not animated?

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Derek Darkly
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Posted: 10th Jan 2014 21:39 Edited at: 10th Jan 2014 21:54
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If you call PLAY OBJECT every loop it will constantly start the animation over at frame zero (or specified frame.)
You can use it inside your loop, but you should call it only when starting or changing an animation.

As a test, try PLAY OBJECT before the loop:



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Jonk
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Posted: 10th Jan 2014 23:02
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I think I did it like that Derek. But I still can't get it to play

Here is a clip of the code from my program that loads and plays the object.

Is this Correct?



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Derek Darkly
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Posted: 11th Jan 2014 04:58
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That should work... very odd.
Have you tried one of the DBPro sample models?



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Jonk
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Posted: 11th Jan 2014 08:46
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Yes that model seems to work fine. It just seems to be the models from the FPSC Pack very stange

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Jonk
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Posted: 11th Jan 2014 08:50
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Thats odd It seems to be working now with that simple peice of code. My original program must have had some bugs in. Thanks so much for you help Derek

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Derek Darkly
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Posted: 11th Jan 2014 15:47
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Quote: "Thats odd It seems to be working now with that simple peice of code. My original program must have had some bugs in. Thanks so much for you help Derek"


Great!
I knew the TGC store models had animations because I bought the Viral Outbreak pack and they work fine.

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LBFN
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Posted: 11th Jan 2014 17:08
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The difference is that you originally use PLAY OBJECT 1, as opposed to LOOP OBJECT 1.

If you use PLAY OBJECT, you need to tell it which frames to play. I'm surprised it didn't error for you.

So many games to code.....so little time.
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Jonk
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Posted: 12th Jan 2014 04:44
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Ahaa that explains it

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Derek Darkly
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Posted: 12th Jan 2014 21:00 Edited at: 12th Jan 2014 21:06
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Quote: "If you use PLAY OBJECT, you need to tell it which frames to play."


According to the help file, PLAY OBJECT 1 should have worked too, cycling through each frame once.

This works for me, but on a faster PC it might happen too quickly to be visible without a slower sync rate:



(Naturally, the command isn't useful this way, but should work regardless.)

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LBFN
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Posted: 13th Jan 2014 03:07
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Yes, PLAY OBJECT 1 does actually play the model's animations one time. I can't say I have ever used it that way, as typically you are not going to want it to play all of the animations one time like that.

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