Triggering an animation?

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 20th, 2007, 11:39 am

I have an animation I want to respond to left channel pegged vu meter.

I named the last frame from of the left vu animation...id(10) modify(steam) fadeout passthrough

The animation to trigger is...animation id(steam) paused animtype(2) direction(1) delay(1) passthrough

I've tried type 0 and 1,paused and non paused,paused first frame(blank) but it will only trigger once and then not again til you reload the skin and the vu pegs again.

heeeeelp! :shock:

by **SLoB** » July 20th, 2007, 10:22 pm

looks like your going through the realms of nested animations now

probably best to bosh an example psd up as Cliff will need it to see what is going on if its a bug or if it can be fixed with some more workarounds to achieve the same effect

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 21st, 2007, 7:03 am

lemme wake up and I'll post it to something like sendspace and maybe you or cliff or someone can help me figure this.

a peeged vu meter may be the wrong way to trigger but the method would be neat for other implementations...I dont really want it to just run continuously...its too big.

a random delay trigger would be ok.

by **SLoB** » July 21st, 2007, 7:11 am

I would say this thread should go in the general skin discussion forum but hey ho

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 21st, 2007, 9:14 am

ya,I missed that somehow...feel free to move it.

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 21st, 2007, 6:22 pm

hmmmmm...well I gave up on the trigger and just set a long delay on the last frame.

added a second animation timed to the steam puffs...an eye blink.

timing is perfect,but(theres always a but... :lol:

)...I need both animations to stop and start with the music.

I added a stop indicator(closed eyes) and added id(stopani) modify(eye,eyer,steam) acanstop after indi_stop

so the eye closes and hides the animation but dosnt stop it.

How can I have them stop and start automatically? :shock:

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 21st, 2007, 6:49 pm

Heres 'Rusty' in mid animation...he blinks over his vu meter eyes every time steam gets in them...that needs to stop and start with the music. :roll:

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 21st, 2007, 7:50 pm

Reckon Cliff would think I had lost my mind if I said I wanted to do time remaining analog flip numbers?

Like old pre digital alarm clocks?flip,flip,flip...maybe I've flipped my lid? :lol:

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 21st, 2007, 7:57 pm

eyes open...ready to rock. :shock:

by **SLoB** » July 22nd, 2007, 8:20 pm

instead of putting the modifies on the indi layers try putting them on stop, pause and play buttons? and or creating a new animation set which just gets triggered by those buttons and then does all the triggering for the other layers as a toggle?

flip numbers would be cool but would also require functionality to include bitmap fonts, until that ever happens then we can only dream

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 23rd, 2007, 4:41 am

there will be a seperate button for killing the animations,you should allways include that...and triggers on the start and stop button are fine too...

what I need is for them too trigger automatically when a song starts or ends without my input...like when the indi_stop appears.(or indi_play)

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 23rd, 2007, 4:44 am

oh...flip numbers wouldnt require fonts...just 0 thru 1 animation sets that trigger by seconds,minutes...etc... :shock:

by **SLoB** » July 23rd, 2007, 6:24 am

hmm , could possibly trigger off an animation set on play with a 6ms delay between them to simulate the numbers
wouldnt work for end of track but probably worth playing with

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 23rd, 2007, 4:18 pm

yeah,I had already considered it...great minds...hahahaha :lol:

by **I.R. Brainiac** » July 24th, 2007, 9:39 pm

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