How to play animation without looping?

[NZx]

I loaded a .x mesh and I can find only 'setFrameLoop' function that can set range of animation.
but I do the animation loop forever,
how can I set it do just only 1 time?

[cartoonit]

I think if you search the forums, electron posted something about it a bit ago, I think it involved call back functions, but I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was something to do with controlling character animation...

[NZx]

Thanks cartoonit.
Here, the link if anyone want to the same,
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... php?t=2511

anyway, I really don't want to re-complie the engine.
if anyone could figure out another way of doing this, please tell me.

[brcolow]

Basically you want to loop it once, correct? Then you can do this:

for (int i = 0; weaponNode->getFrameNr() < weaponNode->TotalFrames(); i++)
{
weaponNode->setCurrentFrame(i);
}

TotalFrames isn't a real function in Irrlicht, I'm too lazy to look at the docs, but there you go

[eXodus]

Wouldn't this lock everything in the scene until the animation is finished?

[brc_notlogged]

Hmm.. I guess your correct...unless it's implemented inside the main game loop =\.

[cartoonit]

Even if its implemented in the main game loop it would still play all the animation, just change for the update and recompile the engine, it is the simplist way....

[NZx]

Thanks everyone.
I think I have to recompile the engine to do it :l

[Kaeles]

why not just make a new int outside like startframe = -1;
endframe = "whatever frame it stops on " say 100
like niko does with the FPS counter in many examples
increment inside the main loop, and just call the
if(startframe < endframe)
setframeloop(frame)
startframe ++;
then you could reset the start frame with an event from the keyboard?
like onevent(key_forward)
startframe = 0;
inside the main drawing loop?

that would make it where each frame is played once a frame right?
then again, i havent slept... so this might not be readable... yea...

[eXodus]

Don't start implementing every animation in the render loop. This will become really ugly with 2 or more animations...