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Re: Easy animations
[Re: 3run]
#326600
06/01/10 19:42
06/01/10 19:42
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Joey
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you can do that yourself, blending between animations i mean. but if you need more than two different scenes, you have a problem: As entity animation can only blend between two frames, not between three or more, ent_blend can not interpolate between two already-interpolated frames. Therefore the source and target frames are not interpolated, but 'snapped' to the next full frame number. For complex blending, use ent_blendpose. you can overcome this by moving to the next full frame manually, then to the next scene. this can look ugly, though.
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Re: Easy animations
[Re: Joey]
#326611
06/01/10 20:03
06/01/10 20:03
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EvilSOB
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Please ignore that meaningless ramble earlier, I forgot this was "the Future" thread for a minute...
So to understand what you want, as there seems to be some conflict.
You want to add a "lerp" effect to ent_animate (or a new function with lerp installed).
Is this lerp intended to :-
A> 'lerp' between frames of ONLY THE SAME scene?
or
B> 'lerp' between frames of ANY scene?(ie if the 'current' scene is different to the target scene)
Which is it? It looks like you mean "B" to me, but I want to clarify...
"B" does sound useful IMHO...
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A8.30.5 Commercial
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Re: Easy animations
[Re: EvilSOB]
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06/01/10 20:53
06/01/10 20:53
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3run
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Sorry again for my bad English guys, all I want is good looking and easy to make animations with lite-c for every one, to make that part of programming much easier and faster. I don't really like the way usual ent_animate works. There is no smooth blending between animations at all, animations just change fast, and they looks terrible, but it is easy to use (ent_animate I mean), so the thing I want is smooth blending between any of animations by using just ent_animate (as simple and easy as we use the usual one now) with one more added parameter like this: ent_animate(my,"walk",walk_,ANM_CYCLE,0.5); So it will be really useful to my mind to make good looking, smooth and professional animations easy and fast like that. Just a simple example how I want it to work:
function animate_()
{
var walk_;
var idle_;
while(1)
{
if(key_w)
{
ent_animate(my,"walk",walk_,ANM_CYCLE,0.5);
walk_ += 10 * time_step;
// so if we play with "0.5" we can get the speed of blending from walk to stand
}
else
{
ent_animate(my,"idle",idle_,ANM_CYCLE,0.5);
idle_ += 2 * time_step;
// so if we play with "0.5" we can get the speed of blending from stand to walk
}
wait(1);
}
}
As you can see very easy and fast to do, but result will looks 1000 times better than just ent_animate.
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Re: Easy animations
[Re: 3run]
#326746
06/02/10 17:36
06/02/10 17:36
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EvilSOB
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Im still here, but I want to do asome testing with ent_animate before further comment.
Unfortunately, Im busy on a shader ATM, and havent had time to test ent_animate...
The way the manual reads, it already DOES interpolate between frames.
I just want to double check it, so I know what Im saying...
"There is no fate but what WE make." - CEO Cyberdyne Systems Corp.
A8.30.5 Commercial
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Yep ent_animate(my,"walk",walk_,ANM_CYCLE,0.5); fails to compile of course 
There is too many parameters. Thing is that I'm talking about, is adding more parameter like "0.5" at the end, and adding smooth blending between animations, witch can be changed by a new parameter. 
No one interested?
