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If I have an object and append to it an animation, how do I append another animation to it after something else happens(for example: I append to a character an animation that makes him walk, then, if the character dies, I append another animation to make him fall down). I already tried just appending over the other animations but it says to me that "the append frame must be greater than models total frame count". Hu?? Does that mean something to any of you?
Please help!
Thanks

if your model has 100 frames, then you append at frame 101, DB won`t let you overwrite the last frame of the model, all you do is load and append all the animations your model will want and then call them as needed, you sound to be loading them on the fly, that will slow down the game a lot (this may not be noticable in some games though), load them before the main game loop to maintain speed, what the computer is telling you is that the current model had say 50 frames, you appended 50 frames (51 onwards), and then you tried to write over those frames with the next load, but as far as DB is concerned they are all the same models animation, so you use object frame() to find out how many frames the model currently has, then you append the next animation onto the end of that (so if it returns 127 then you append at 128 onwards), then by keeping track of all the animations frames appended to the model you can play any of them at any time, eg if you add in walk/run/crawl/duck/jump/shoot then you can play any of those sequences as you need to, the frames may be something like this

walk 1-20
run 21-36
crawl 37-49
duck 50-58
jump 59-67
shoot 68-79

so to walk you play or loop frames 1 to 20, if you then want him to duck then play frames 50 to 58, if he then runs for cover play frames 21 to 36 etc, hope that makes things clearer.

Mentor.

Thanks, think I've got that. Now all I have to do is try it.
Thankyou!