[SOLVED] First Person Player's 3d Arms Animations have some problems

Catacomber

I have different arm animations for the player (First Person Player). When he's just walking or otherwise idle, there is an idle animation and a swordWalk animation and then when he's in battle and attacking--there's an attack animation with a shield and sword. These are all Legacy animations.

I have a change animation step in the attack event so that when the attack is over he should go back to his swordWalk animation.

But he doesn't until I switch scenes and then his attack animation isn't quite right.

I found this thread and changed the layers for idle and swordWalk and attack but it doesn't seem to help me.

http://forum.orkframework.com/discussion/comment/6423#Comment_6423

Now the animations are set to "Loop" but what animation setting do I want to substitute-- Default Once Clamp Forever

Any help is appreciated. : ) The answer doesn't seem to be Clamp Forever. : )

Default seems to be ok but have to try it out a little more.

gamingislove

If the attack animation is set to loop, it will play until you tell it to stop - so either don't loop it or stop it in the attack event :)

Catacomber

Thanks so much!

Catacomber

How can I stop Looping the animation in the Attack event? I'm using Default animations right now. And it seemed I was ok. But-----

I just noticed that when I'm in the initial scene everything is ok. I attack monsters and I have my shield and sword animation playing.

And if I move to a new scene without engaging in a battle area, my idle sword animation is playing fine.

But if I'm in the initial scene when I leave the battle area after fighting I lose all my animations relating to the shield and sword and don't get them back when I enter a new battle area.

Puzzled. Thanks for any help. Can't figure out what the problem is.

Catacomber

I also notice that if I move to a new scene using a Scene Changer, I keep my idle shield sword animations but if I use a teleporter event I lose them.

gamingislove

Stopping the animation in the event is done with one of the animation steps, depending on how the animation is played. If you're using the animation types, just use the Combatant Animation step, select the type and enable Stop.

Animations like attack should usually not be set up to loop - if they are in your Unity project, I'd think about changing that :)

How did you set up your animations in ORK - did you separate them into field and battle animations, or do you have all animations in the field part and only override some in the battle animations (e.g. like in the game tutorials).

Catacomber

Thanks, Gil. I'm using First Person And right now I have the animations for the arms set to default and at the end of the attack event I have a step to play the walk animation where the hero has his arms at his side and all you see is a bit if the sword as you walk. I have all animations in the field part and the attack event plays the attack animation in battle. In the attack animation the hero swings his sword and shield. Let me try just stopping the attack animation in the attack event. Thanks.

Catacomber

Due to celebrating New Year's Eve, will work on this on New Year's Day! It's something I have to solve as the animated shield and sword in battle is very important to my betatesters.

: ) I might need some more help here.

Meanwhile, cheers and raise a glass of anything tasty to toast in 2015. Some like champagne, some like mulled wine, some like rum, some like margaritas. : ) Of course there's also Perrier water......hard apple cider........the number of cheery beverages almost boggles the mind. : ) And they almost all inspire you so let's hope I get inspired to fix whatever my problem is here.

Catacomber

I made a prefab out of the 3d arms and added it as a Component to spawn with the player. But while my attack animation plays in the first scene and stops now after the attack-----no longer is looping----I still have this problem-----

I still lose all animations when I teleport from one scene to another. The Attack event even doesn't play its attack animation--it's as tho my player had no animations at all. The scene changer lets me keep my animations but not if I use a teleport event. I really can't figure this one out.

My player is a First Person Capsule with the arms as a child---the only animations it has are the 3d arms---it's part of the player prefab and tagged Arms. Don't understand why I lose the arms when I use the teleport event. Any help is much appreciated!

Shadow_Fire

Pardon me, but I am a bit confused.
You want to have your character play the normal walk, run and idle animation, but when he equip a sword, to play the SwordWalk, SwordRun and idleWithSword Animation?

Catacomber

I just want him to play his attack animation in battle. He doesn't have to equip anything right now. He's already equipped a shield and sword. He's just 3d arms with animated shield and sword.

I'll work on the equipment viewer after I get the attack animation working in every scene. It's very important to my beta testers.

swordWalk and swordRun are his idle, walk and run animations but I really don't care if they show up as it's just a little tip of a sword that shows. There is no idleWithSword Animation.

For his attack animation, he swings his shield and sword. That's very effective!

My player is just a capsule--first person capsule but he has 3d arms which are a child of the capsule---I don't care if he plays any animation at all except his Attack animation---but he does have the normal walk, run and idle animations for those 3d arms set up---he's just a capsule with 3d arms.

If nothing showed up in the field I wouldn't care. I just want the attack animation that my attack event plays.

But there is some problem that when my hero teleports from one scene to the other using the teleport event--he loses ALL his animations. He's fine now in the first level.

Can't figure it out. Thanks for any help.

The scene changer for some reason doesn't lose the animations.

I could go back to no animations at all in battle but now that I got it working it would be kind of disappointing.

I hope that makes the problem a little clearer.

Remember he is just a capsule--no legs, head or anything else except very nice 3d arms with a shield and sword that work fine in battle.

Catacomber

Solved Finally! Thanks! Don't exactly know how I got there but thankful that it all works fine now. Lots of trial and error. : )

What seems to have saved me is copying some things from Brown Pants onto my first person controller--my capsule--the skeleton and main mover and then substituting my fps kit (3d arms) as a child of the main mover and then it was all a question of positioning the arms and sword and shield and all my graphics and animations now move with me through any teleport event.

Somehow the 3d arms got lost before when I spawned in different scenes. Not going to wonder why. Just happy everything works now. : )