Ok, I've been having some problems; I made a character, gave it walkframes and standframes, (properly labeled) and put it in a test level. I then assigned player_move to it, and ran the level. everything worked fine, except that the character's walkframes don't show except when it runs up against other entities. one or two of the walkframes are shown when I start walking, but then it just stops, making the character appear to "slide" around. I tried a couple of the default characters, and the only one that didn't have this problem was the gaurd model, but he seems to only run. can anyone tell me what's wrong?

Josh

If you're using the template movement.wdl, you need to set Skill1 of your player entity to 1 in the properties panel to enable frame-name based animation (or put my._walkframes=1; in the action script that calls player_move). Hope that helps...

maybe, there's another problem. because when you beginn to walk, your walkmode is walk. but after a few steps your walkmode is run. when your animations are labeld with walk, in this momement, where the walkmode changes, there is no animation called run. Perhabs this is the problem. When you rename a few walk animations you have to see the animation also when you run.

OK, I tried what you suggested, but the character was still sliding, so I tried just setting player_walk to him, which is basically just a smaller piece of player_move. he walks now, which means the problem was probably with one of the other parts of player_move. I have another problem now, however. My walk animation is too fast. I tried slowing down the FPS rate, but it reset as soon as I exited the model editor. Is there any way to make the new FPS setting permanent?
Thanks for all your help.

Josh

Josh:

One of the 'skills' will effect the speed at which the animation cycles through. I forget which one but it is there. It may not be documented but if you dig through the movement.wdl you should find it.

The MY._DIST skill will effect the speed at which the animation cycles through.

Heinz

Thanks to both of you, that helps a lot. I'll try it and let you know if it works.

Josh

the only thing like MY._DIST that I can see is my_dist, and when I change that, nothing happens. can you give me a hint as to where MY._DIST is?

Josh

I think these are what you are looking for:

code:

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var anim_walk_dist = 1;  // dist per model width per walk cycle
var anim_run_dist = 1.5; // dist per model width per run cycle
var anim_crawl_dist = 0.8; // dist per model width per crawl cycle
var anim_wade_dist = 0.8; // dist per model width per crawl cycle
var anim_swim_dist = 1;  // dist per model width per swim cycle

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Thanks Doug, where do I need to put those in? or are they already there, and I just have to edit them? if so, where?

Josh

[This message has been edited by Josh (edited 29 April 2001).]