Animation Blending ?

[SpiderMack]

Hi

Is animation blending possible ? I didn't find any code example.

[SolarPortal]

yes, animation blending is possible as it animation weighting.
The first is easier than the latter.

When playing an animation in lua, it has a set of arguments at the back of the function:

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     anim.playAnimation(objID, "walk", 30, blendEnable);


-- 30 is the speed to blend the new anim from the old anim.
-- blend enable is a 1 or 0 value to enable or disable animation blending when playing another animation.

Other functions you may be interested in:

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    anim.stopAnimation(charID, "walk");
    anim.setSpeed(charID, "walk", Speed); -- -1 will make animations go backwards, useful for backwards walking or running.


The animation mapper is set from the entity property panel, and is retrieved in lua by the command:

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     animation = anim.getFromMap(obj, "Idle1"); -- returns the animation named assigned by the animation mapper for the entity.
     anim.playAnimation(objID, animation, 30, 1);


This allows you to reuse animation keys in the script across many entities that have different animation names, this can be setup from:

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[SpiderMack]

Nice , Skyline looks very complete and incredibly good graphics , almost ready for Steam once examples and templates are back

About the "Action Mapper" does it crashes the engine when some Action is not mapped "not Used" and we don't choose some animation ?
Why not play the first available animation when it is used in game and user did not map the action ?

[SolarPortal]

Nice , Skyline looks very complete and incredibly good graphics , almost ready for Steam once examples and templates are back

Wow, thanks for saying that! Bit motivation booster.. Gen2 is alot more advanced then Gen1

About the "Action Mapper" does it crashes the engine when some Action is not mapped "not Used" and we don't choose some animation ?
Why not play the first available animation when it is used in game and user did not map the action ?

not, sure, will need to check this.. like you say it should use the first one or just fail to play the animation

[StarFire]

If the mapper has an entry of "None" and you call play animation in lua with and entry such as Idle1(which is not set) the character just plays the anim that is set in its base properties.

[SpiderMack]

Wow, thanks for saying that! Bit motivation booster.. Gen2 is alot more advanced then Gen1

I am really astonished by so many many features :
- IBL lighting working great and looking gorgeous
- Physical based rendering shaders looking great already
- Tweakable materials for transparent, double sided and other options
- Super easy Lua coding gameplay
- Visual Scripting
- Many detail maps and controls
- Full UI + Quest system
- Full FBX and animations import
- Character Physics system
- Player and AI scripts ready to use
- Great particle system
- Quality starter materials, textures, characters , scripts for fast prototyping.

Once tutorials and templates are back in the package, i think it will be ready

Terrain is not the most important feature, you can do lot of different games without terrain or using your own terrain meshes like some AAA games (Cod, Dishonnored, Bioshock, Prey, adventure games, puzzle games, racing games ...).

If the mapper has an entry of "None" and you call play animation in lua with and entry such as Idle1(which is not set) the character just plays the anim that is set in its base properties.

Nice.

[StarFire]

Very happy to see you are enjoying Skyline as much as we do

[SpiderMack]

Very happy to see you are enjoying Skyline as much as we do

The only issue is not the engine but how to make good enought 3D models,level and code good gameplay

[SolarPortal]

Great to hear your thoughts on the engine @SpiderMack.

The only issue is not the engine but how to make good enought 3D models,level and code good gameplay

lol. thats the same case across all engines

[StarFire]

Hopefully our game objects and mechanics systems will give you a head start in creating your game play