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There are three animation types in Arma/Ofp
There are three animation types in Arma/Ofp


*Island Animations
*[[Island Animations]]
:used as background mission play to front screen of arma/ofp
:used as background mission play to front screen of arma/ofp
*Vehicle Animations
*[[Vehicle Animations]]
:used to open doors, climb ladders etc
:used to open doors, climb ladders etc
*Mission animations  
*[[Mission animations]]
: as declared by '''switchMove''' and '''PlayMove''' commands in missions.
: as declared by '''switchMove''' and '''PlayMove''' commands in missions.
This document describes howto add your own animation to a ''mission''.
Note that switchMove and Playmove commands DO NOT WORK in the init field of a mission sqm
They *only* 'work' after mission has been loaded.
Nor will they work up front in a sqs or sqf file.
A delay is required until mission is loaded.
Essentially you have to add onto the existing animations held in ~Arma/Anims.pbo.
Specifically, the cfgMoveBasic class and family held in Anim/Characters/Config.bin
to do so:
;init.sqs eg
~1 ; delay until mission loaded
PoorSoldier switchmove "mydrop"
exit
//mission sqm
class Mission
{
  addOns[]={MyPboName,,,,,
//config.cpp
class CfgPatches
{
  class MyPboName
  {
  units[] = {};
  weapons[] = {};
  requiredVersion = 0.27;
  requiredAddons[] = {CA_Anims_Char};
  };
};
You can, of course, put anything you like in your config,cpp. This document deals only with what is relevant to creating animations. No other information incidentally is required. You can use this pbo, without other classes, as is.
class CfgMovesMaleSdr // adds to existing CfgMovesMaleSdr in Anims.pbo
{
  class States
  {
  class AdthPercMstpSlowWrflDnon_1; // some pre-declared animation
  class mydrop: AdthPercMstpSlowWrflDnon_1
  {
    file = "\MyPbo\SomeWhere\MyRtmFile"; // (.rtm is assumed)
    speed = 0.58;
  };
  };
};
Naturally and of course, you would want to build up a potentially much more powerful animation than above. To do so, look inside the characters/config.cpp
Note that:
* class MyPbo is the addons[]= in the mission.sqm
* "\myPbo" is the prefix name (if any) you give to your pbo
* "mydrop" is the name of the animation

Revision as of 10:16, 13 March 2009

There are three animation types in Arma/Ofp

used as background mission play to front screen of arma/ofp
used to open doors, climb ladders etc
as declared by switchMove and PlayMove commands in missions.
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