entity animations

Hi, I'm having a little trouble with animating my character. I've set up my character in a class that contains an entity. and I initialize my animation class with that entity, but when I play the animation the character only animates for about 1 or 2 frames of the animation and then stops. When I try to switch into another animation the same thing happens. Has anyone had this happen or knows if i am approaching this wrong?

Thx, ciao.

You'll have to continiusly increase the animation state like this:

Call of the method in a frame listener (in our case in the keyboard frame listener):

mPlayer->getAnim()->animate(evt.timeSinceLastFrame * mAnimSpeed, 1);

Our animation Class:

Anim::Anim(Ogre::String name, Ogre::SceneManager* SceneManager)
{
mName = name;
mSceneManager = SceneManager;
mStates = mSceneManager->getEntity(mName)->getAllAnimationStates();
if (mSceneManager->getEntity(mName)->getMesh()->getName()== "robot.mesh")
{
mStates->getAnimationState("Walk")->setLoop(true);
mStates->getAnimationState("Walk")->setEnabled(true);
mStates->getAnimationState("Shoot")->setLoop(true);
mStates->getAnimationState("Shoot")->setEnabled(true);
mStates->getAnimationState("Slump")->setLoop(true);
mStates->getAnimationState("Slump")->setEnabled(true);
mStates->getAnimationState("Idle")->setLoop(true);
mStates->getAnimationState("Idle")->setEnabled(true);
mStates->getAnimationState("Die")->setEnabled(true);
}
}

void Anim::animate(Ogre::Real offset, int button)
{
if (mSceneManager->getEntity(mName)->getMesh()->getName() == "robot.mesh")
{
switch (button)
{
case (1):
mStates->getAnimationState("Walk")->addTime(offset);
break;
case (2):
mStates->getAnimationState("Walk")->addTime(-offset);
break;
case (3):
mStates->getAnimationState("Shoot")->addTime(offset);
break;
case (4):
mStates->getAnimationState("Idle")->addTime(offset);
break;
case (5):
mStates->getAnimationState("Slump")->addTime(offset);
break;
case (6):
mStates->getAnimationState("Die")->addTime((mStates->getAnimationState("Die")->getLength())- 0.1f);
break;
}
}
}

(This code is not written by my self and far from ready)

You'll have to continiusly increase the animation state like this:

Call of the method in a frame listener (in our case in the keyboard frame listener):


Thx M@gg! - I created a function to add time to my animations and then put it in the frame listener and it worked perfectly. My animation class is pretty different from yours as I'm also managing (well trying anyway) seamless transitions between animations.

Ciao.

hey,

I was browsing the forums and trying to find if there was any topics on how to blend (as seamlessly as possible) between different animationStates for an entity. I could not find any documentation regarding this. Any help would be appreciated.
-GraphicalGuy

Sry, I have just a very litle of knowledge about it.

Have you search in the Ogre Main Forum?

Try to search for:

Animation States

Thanks !!! That was very useful.