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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Door animation

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Dragonslayer
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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 01:14
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This is something I was just thinking about I'm not to this point in anything I'm doing yet.

Doors that rise or open to the side and go into the wall I assume are opened by a trigger close to the door. Is the animation of the door opening done in DBP or is it done in an outside animation program.
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G Man
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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 01:23
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Quote: "DBP or is it done in an outside animation program"


Could be done either way depending on how you wish to accomplish it.

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Dragonslayer
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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 01:42
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So if it is done in your animation program(I use Lightwave) you set a trigger point that will set off the animation but how does DBP know that there is an animation to play? Do you have to save the object differently? There is a play animation command but how do you get DBP to recognize an outside animation and play it correctly?

I hope I asked this clearly!
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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 02:29 Edited at: 25th Feb 2005 02:31
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Quote: "how does DBP know that there is an animation to play?"


Because your program knows which switch the character threw, so you simply play the appropriate animation frames that move the door limb. I think it would be easier to simply model the doors as limbs and programatically move the appropriate limb though...

Quote: "is a play animation command but how do you get DBP to recognize an outside animation and play it correctly?"


Maybe I'm missing something... the animations are contained in the .X file

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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 08:01
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Quote: "point that will set off the animation but how does DBP know that there is an animation to play?"


More importantly, you (the programmer) knows that there's an animation to play. If it's the only animation for the object you can just PLAY OBJECT. If there are many, you'll want to pass a beginning and ending frame number to the PLAY OBJECT command, else you'll cycle through all the animations.
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