B Tutorial Animation How to add New Animations to your module.

[Yoman Jenkins]

Oh, OK.

So i have just tried to download it again, installed it, and now it works fine. Probably had to do with the way i set it up.

Thanks for the help amade!

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

Ok, so I had a go at assigning a new animation to a new itcf as per this tutorial.. I fail to see which bit of alteration assigns your new animation to the action? Copying and pasting an itcf just means you have the same itcf only with a different name.. did you actually get your animation working in the end?

 

[cdvader]

I haven't tried this system with a custom animation, but I did get my custom item capability (itc) and item capabilities flag? (itcf) working fine on my throwing sword item.

If you look in module_animations.py, you see ready_javelin and release_javelin animation ID's. There is no "throw_javelin" as it is in itcf_throw_javelin. My bet is that the item capabilities flag (itcf) "combines" the ready_javelin and release_javelin to itcf_throw_javelin. That, or it could simply be hardcoded. However, if we take itcf_thrust_onehanded for example, then we see it has ready_thrust_onehanded, release_thrust_onehanded and parry_thrust_onehanded. I hope that only the prefixes, e.g ready, release or parry are hardcoded, not the whole animation ID's.

I did the exact steps as I showed in my tutorial, and I got a throwing sword item working with a custom itc (and it's itcf's).

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

Yes, but did you actually get a new/different animation working with the ITCF?  I've got an itcf with a different name, but it still uses exactly the same animation.. I'd imagine it's hardcoded.

 

[cdvader]

Nope, I haven't. I'll try it tomorrow, if I get some time.

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

Well having tried it myself and fiddling around a lot, I suppose it's whatever is in the hex code that is telling the game which animation to use.

I therefore surmise we can't add new item capabilities with custom animations.

 

[cdvader]

I thought so at first, too... But now that you confirmed it, I guess I can say that ... bad news..

 

[DtheHun]

It's great to get new animation to the game, but I have the same problem. The game don't care with my animation (uses the old duplicated one), until in the BRF I change the new animation's name to the old one, and rename or remove the native animation. Is it possible, to keep the original animation too

 

[cdvader]

I've found this command: agent_set_walk_forward_animation. And in fact, I have a idea for this. I'll see if it works.

cdvader

 

[Super Kitty Trollslayer]

Now, I wonder if it's possible to make a superjump by editting the jump animation. Just wondering...

 

[Aethelred]

I also found it to be impossible to create a new set of item capabilities. I wanted to use a different style of thrust animation only for seaxes, but it still used the list of animations for itcf_thrust_onehanded. Even when I gave my custom itcf a different hex value it made no difference, which doesn't make any sense to me. I can't see how it still knew to use the itcf_thrust_onehanded; I'm certain there was nothing in the items files or animations file to point it in that direction, so I'd have expected it to either work or crash.

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

Yeah, we've been through this. The tutorial doesn't actually work. Vaguely naming a new item capability the same as an animation you've added does NOT let you add a new item flag. It's all hardcoded.

 

[uio0000]

for the video,you might wanna update the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n0Q8THJE60

 

[ZemplinTemplar]

So, in essence, this tutorial is well-intentioned, but inacurrate rubbish. Now I know why I had problems implementing new animations.  It seems almost impossible to do without wrecking the module system. 

 

[ThatGuyWithGame]

How can I save my animation in SMD format?

 

[Namakan]

More than 4 years. GG.
You should be abled to select the format somewhere in the saving-menu. If not or you can't find, use google.