Obscure Query

Zephirius

There is a crystal placeable that when you click on it little "floaties" go upward.
I tried scripting the placeable to activate but can't get the "floaties" to activate.

DoPlaceableObjectAction(OBJECT_SELF, ANIMATION_PLACEABLE_ACTIVATE));

The only reservation about this is: it's on the OnHeartbeat handler and I'm uncertain how the animation will react to being played every six seconds.

ForSerious

For all the placeables I have used, I get them to animate using

ActionPlayAnimation(ANIMATION_PLACEABLE_ACTIVATE);

Some are backwards, so you have to deactivate them to get them to animate.
Anyway, once activated, they stay that way until you call a script to deactivate them.

DoPlaceableObjectAction(oNPC, PLACEABLE_ACTION_*));

This function is used to have a player or henchman do things like unlock or use a placeable.

Proleric

Some placeables also have open/close animations which are different. I don't know which crystal we're talking about, but it sounds like it could be an open animation, which you can play with the same function and the appropriate constant.

Zephirius

OK. thanks guys. Will give it a try.

Zephirius

ForSerious wrote: »

For all the placeables I have used, I get them to animate using

ActionPlayAnimation(ANIMATION_PLACEABLE_ACTIVATE);

Some are backwards, so you have to deactivate them to get them to animate.
Anyway, once activated, they stay that way until you call a script to deactivate them.

Yes sir. That did the trick. It was ActionPlayAnimation...

Zephirius

Hmm, I works sort of. I seems that the farther away from where I spawn, the crystals stop playing their "floaty" animation. This is strange. Any interesting theories?

Script so far...

void main()
{

int DoOnce = GetLocalInt(OBJECT_SELF, GetTag(OBJECT_SELF));
if (DoOnce==TRUE) return;
SetLocalInt(OBJECT_SELF, GetTag(OBJECT_SELF), TRUE);

effect eGlow  = EffectVisualEffect(VFX_DUR_AURA_WHITE);
ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_PERMANENT, eGlow, OBJECT_SELF);

effect eIceskin = EffectVisualEffect(VFX_DUR_ICESKIN);
ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_PERMANENT, eIceskin, OBJECT_SELF);

AssignCommand(OBJECT_SELF, ActionPlayAnimation(ANIMATION_PLACEABLE_ACTIVATE, 1.5f, 6.0f));

}

ForSerious

Not strange at all. You are telling it to activate for only 6 seconds. Using the default of 0.0f will make it play until you make it play the deactivate animation.

Zephirius

Same thing. I think I originally changed it from 0.0 to 6.0 in the hope that something would stick.
The crystals are dispersed intermittently throughout the map, but the farther I get from the start, they just stop playing their animations.

Thanks for the reply Serious.

ForSerious

Did you try it without the two other visual effects? If it's the same crystal I'm thinking of, it glows white when activated. I also tried to change the animation speed, but it was the same, no matter what I set it to.

ForSerious

How are you calling this script? I tried it in the OnUsed slot. It works just fine. You can strip it down to:

void main()
{
    int DoOnce = GetLocalInt(OBJECT_SELF, GetTag(OBJECT_SELF));
    if(DoOnce==TRUE)
    {
        return;
    }
    SetLocalInt(OBJECT_SELF, GetTag(OBJECT_SELF), TRUE);
    effect eGlow  = EffectVisualEffect(VFX_DUR_AURA_WHITE);
    ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_PERMANENT, eGlow, OBJECT_SELF);
    effect eIceskin = EffectVisualEffect(VFX_DUR_ICESKIN);
    ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_PERMANENT, eIceskin, OBJECT_SELF);
    ActionPlayAnimation(ANIMATION_PLACEABLE_ACTIVATE);
}

and it will work the exact same. I guess speed and duration don't affect placable animations.

Unless you're going to deactivate the crystal at some point, you can just set the state to activated in the toolset. I guess you lose the other effects that way.

Man I'm all out of ideas. I put your script in OnHeartbeat in about 15 crystals and they all activate and stay that way.

Zephirius

Thanks for the help again. I'll eventually figure it out. I'm actually obsessing over this little bugger.
I wish I could just mail you the area .erf. Ha!

ForSerious

PM away.