Movement and Animation

[SilentScope2190]

first things first does anyone know how to call the animated sydney node when a key is pressed,I loaded the sydney mesh but its constantly playing.


second,i started going into collisions with the terrain i managed to collide my mesh using the camera like in the tutorial. does anyone know how to mix user control with the WASD keys and collison?Thanks.

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[Castaa]

I'm actually looking for a similar answer. I would assume node->setAnimationSpeed(0); would stop the animation. node->setAnimationSpeed(4); would start it back up.

But that seems like a hack?

[instinct]

simply start the animation when u press a movement key and stop it when that key is released. See the documentation of the SEvent class

sydney->setMD2Animation(EMAT_RUN);

Im not sure about the EMAT_RUN, but check your intellisense for the options

[B@z]

as for me, i always save two variables. one the currentAnim, what i override at every frame, and one the previous animation.

so

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enum PLAYER_ANIMATION
{
 PA_STAND,
 PA_WALK,
 PA_RUN
 // etc
};

int pAnim, cAnim;

then in the control loop

cAnim = PA_STAND;

if (up && !shift)
 cAnim = PA_WALK
else if (up)
 cAnim = PA_RUN;

// etc

if (cAnim != pAnim)
 node->setAnimation(/*the frames, for me, i have them it in an array*/anims[cAnim][0], anims[cAnim][1]);
pAnim = cAnim;

note that i just wrote this from my head, maybe there are typos or something...
and u have to do the keyboard checking etc by yourself, im just giving an example for u.