Hi list
I've asked this before but was ignored :( Can anyone please help me on
this issue?
I have animations in our mod that need to directly influence a
player's absorigin, for example a dash or roll or cartwheel, etc.
These animations are pretty sophisticated and don't look good if we do
QC root position extraction and fake it with a physics velocity push.
We actually want short -performances- for these player animations, ie:
like how Dog runs around attacking things in HL2, with the player
ending up in a different location than where he started.
Lacking any idea of how that's -normally- implemented, I've written
some pseudocode. Maybe some kind soul can point me to the right
direction?
---pseudocode---
StudioFrameAdvace(){
//...after all of valve's stuff...
AppendAnimationOriginOffset()
}
AppendAnimationOriginOffset(){
Vector currentSkeletonRootPosition = GetRootBoneOrigin()
Vector lastSkeletonRootPostion = lastRootPosition;
Vector delta = currentSkeletonRootPosition - lastSkeletonRootPosition
Vector currentPlayerPosition = GetAbsOrigin()
Vector futurePlayerPosition = currentPlayerPosition + delta;
// make sure our animation offset isn't moving our player into walls
and things
trace_t tr;
traceLine( currentPlayerPosition, futurePlayerPosition + playerHull,
..., &tr, ...)
if( tr.m < 1.0 )
futurePlayerPosition *= m
SetAbsOrgin( futurePlayerPosition )
}
---end pseudocode---
It seems that this method would need to predict this (I have
studioadvanceframe and predicted sequences implemented on both
client/server).
Then, it seems I might have to extract the skeleton root's animation
offset back out of the animation sequence itself, but from code not
from QC files (X,Y,Z commands).
Please help, thanks.
~M
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