path_anim ... having trouble getting animations to work with pagan

[PranQster]

I have a pagan commoner, unarmed, in my map and tried using a couple path_anim with it. I targeted a path_anim with 'anim kneel_down', which targets to a path_wait, that to another path_anim with 'anim eat_apple_lefthand', that to another path_wait and then back to the original path_anim.

The pagan just stands there and does the regular idle animations from time to time.

I even tried extracting the tdm_ai_pagan_male.def file and adding the animations at the end of the file:

 

   anim kneel_down             models/md5/chars/guards/proguard/kneel_down.md5anim
   {
	ai_no_turn			// should keep ai from spinning around during animation
   }

   anim eat_apple_lefthand		models/md5/chars/guards/proguard/sit_idle_cough01.md5anim
   {
	no_random_headturning
	//frame 8			pickup		AIUSE_EAT food hand_l
	frame 8				attach		atdm:moveable_food_apple food hand_l
	frame 27			sound_voice	snd_eat
	// replace apply by droppable apple core
	frame 45			destroy		food
	frame 45			attach		atdm:drop_apple_core food hand_l
	// now drop it
	frame 96			drop		food
   }

 

I had tried adding that code to the unarmed section of the def file, but the ai did not render when I did... so I put it at the end. Still no animations (they are inherited by default from tdm_ai_proguard, are they not?)

None of these animations seem to work with this AI.

I have at least two other AI which properly use path_anim... one uses a torch search animation and the other stirs the soup with a spoon. Those work fine, even when put in between path_wait, path_turn, etc.

So what's with this pagan not using path_anim? Does a path_corner need to exist first (he does not have a patrol route and is supposed to stay in one place)?

[Springheel]

Those animations exist for that character, so there must be something wrong with the pathnodes.

[PranQster]

Ok, I'll tinker with it until it works.

 

Fixed.

I had done a clumsy cut/paste operation of the anim names. Just like I stated in my previous post, I had the following:

 

'anim' 'anim kneel_down' instead of 'anim' 'kneel_down'

'anim' 'anim eat_apple_lefthand' instead of 'anim' 'eat_apple_lefthand'

Works fine now. Except the AI gets nervous from the sound of his discarded apple cores hitting the floor when he drops them. LOL

Edited September 18, 2011 by PranQster