JK2 Animation Thread

[razorace]

Originally posted by Primesghost

When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense that way actually. You wouldn't want a player to be able to perform a bunch of keypress combos and be able to just sit back and watch his character fight would you? Or go the other way with it, during a saber fight a player may make several button presses per second, woudn't it suck if the game cached them all and made you watch while they played out?

 

True, but it makes multiple-button-press moves harder to do. If you have a millisecond buffer it allows players to be non-prefect with their button presses. Without a buffer, you MUST press all the keys at the exact same time to execute the move. This means you should hold down the buttons for a certian move (until it executes) instead of just tapping the buttons.

[NickR]

What I meant was that the PM_ utility functions only get called from the bg_ files (Both Game) and there's only one instance of a PM_ function getting called in a g_ file (Game).

[Primesghost]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

lol

 

You're absolutely right. I clearly misunderstood what you meant.

[razorace]

There's a thought. Without a input buffer, multiple key stroke moves aren't possible such as double tapping Jump, etc. Is that true for current JK2 gameplay?

[razorace]

What about inversion animations (like the back flip and wall walk)? Does the model physically flip (rebound/collision box included) or is it all visual? If so, is it the torso or leg animation that causes the flip?

[NickR]

You have double tap jump against a wall to do a wall flip.

 

The flipping is an animation I think, and the bounding boxes probably stay the same.

 

And its a BOTH animation rather than just a LEG or aTORSO anim.

[razorace]

So, ether there's a slight input buffer or it controlled by a upwards jump height trigger... I'll have to check.

[agentj64]

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74016

 

Njoy

[razorace]

Who made the .gla format? If a code monkey could access the format code I bet he could whip up program to make it possible to merge .gla files....

[Primesghost]

Hey! I'm a code monkey!!!

 

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[razorace]

rrriiiigggghhttt.

 

*bump*

[Tchouky]

Originally posted by NickR

The flipping is an animation I think, and the bounding boxes probably stay the same.

 

 

wrong the bounding boxes changes.

[razorace]

Hey! It's Tchouky!

 

So, how's the bounding box handled by JK2? Is it a simple box or is it bond to the model like the hit zones?

 

Razor Ace

[Tchouky]

the bounding boxes are just stupid simple boxes.

defined with your origin and view angles.

so if a player is turned to 45° from the level y axis he is easier to hit !

 

i think someone in the quake world forum did an octogonal bounding box, and an other dude did a model hit detection but it used too much the cpu.

 

look at the bg_pmove.c

and check the mins and maxs.

[razorace]

Something to look forward to in the future of 20 Ghzs systems.

[razorace]

*bump*

[razorace]

bump!

[Tchouky]

i don't really see the point bumping that thread until we have new infos on gla files.....

[razorace]

There's some critical information about animations posted on page one. It would be nice to have the thread where people can actually find and use this information.

[Tchouky]

yeah that would be sweet

[Toonces]

It may be a little premature, but this thread might just deserve a sticky, and perhaps being merged with agent's thread in the modeling forum

[Jman3ooo]

Ok maybe I'm just a lot slower and stupider then you guys but I am still not in understanding...

 

Lets say that I want to call the animation BOTH_HOP_B

 

So The call is:

PM_SetAnim(SETANIM_BOTH, BOTH_HOP_B, SETANIM_FLAG_OVERRIDE, 0);

 

 

And assuming that I want this animation to be activated through a command, where do I put this call statement

[NickR]

Check the loveandpeace command at the bottom of the g_cmds.c file.

[Jman3ooo]

Ok the in g_cmds.c there is this under loveandpeace:

 

else if (Q_stricmp(cmd, "loveandpeace") == 0 && CheatsOk( ent ))
{
	trace_t tr;
	vec3_t fPos;

	AngleVectors(ent->client->ps.viewangles, fPos, 0, 0);

	fPos[0] = ent->client->ps.origin[0] + fPos[0]*40;
	fPos[1] = ent->client->ps.origin[1] + fPos[1]*40;
	fPos[2] = ent->client->ps.origin[2] + fPos[2]*40;

	trap_Trace(&tr, ent->client->ps.origin, 0, 0, fPos, ent->s.number, ent->clipmask);

	if (tr.entityNum < MAX_CLIENTS && tr.entityNum != ent->s.number)
	{
		gentity_t *other = &g_entities[tr.entityNum];

		if (other && other->inuse && other->client)
		{
			vec3_t entDir;
			vec3_t otherDir;
			vec3_t entAngles;
			vec3_t otherAngles;

			if (ent->client->ps.weapon == WP_SABER && !ent->client->ps.saberHolstered)
			{
				Cmd_ToggleSaber_f(ent);
			}

			if (other->client->ps.weapon == WP_SABER && !other->client->ps.saberHolstered)
			{
				Cmd_ToggleSaber_f(other);
			}

			if ((ent->client->ps.weapon != WP_SABER || ent->client->ps.saberHolstered) &&
				(other->client->ps.weapon != WP_SABER || other->client->ps.saberHolstered))
			{
				VectorSubtract( other->client->ps.origin, ent->client->ps.origin, otherDir );
				VectorCopy( ent->client->ps.viewangles, entAngles );
				entAngles[YAW] = vectoyaw( otherDir );
				SetClientViewAngle( ent, entAngles );

				StandardSetBodyAnim(ent, BOTH_KISSER1LOOP, SETANIM_FLAG_OVERRIDE|SETANIM_FLAG_HOLD|SETANIM_FLAG_HOLDLESS);
				ent->client->ps.saberMove = LS_NONE;
				ent->client->ps.saberBlocked = 0;
				ent->client->ps.saberBlocking = 0;

				VectorSubtract( ent->client->ps.origin, other->client->ps.origin, entDir );
				VectorCopy( other->client->ps.viewangles, otherAngles );
				otherAngles[YAW] = vectoyaw( entDir );
				SetClientViewAngle( other, otherAngles );

				StandardSetBodyAnim(other, BOTH_KISSEE1LOOP, SETANIM_FLAG_OVERRIDE|SETANIM_FLAG_HOLD|SETANIM_FLAG_HOLDLESS);
				other->client->ps.saberMove = LS_NONE;
				other->client->ps.saberBlocked = 0;
				other->client->ps.saberBlocking = 0;
			}
		}
	}
}

 

So what does this have to do with calling the following code:

 

PM_SetAnim(SETANIM_BOTH, BOTH_HOP_B, SETANIM_FLAG_OVERRIDE, 0); 

[Jaii der Herr]

PM_ functions are only avialable in bg_ files

 

if you have had a look at the code you posted you should have seen this function call:

 

StandardSetBodyAnim
(other,BOTH_KISSEE1LOOP,SETANIM_FLAG_OVERRIDE
|SETANIM_FLAG_HOLD|SETANIM_FLAG_HOLDLESS);

 

 

Can you imagine for what it is?

 

 

And if you want to have a look at the function in which the code is. you'd nearly know all of your question