Conversation & animation bug

[Goldwell]

I have been having what I am sure is a bug with TDM occur in game with animations.

 

Every time a conversation begins it seems to reset the AI's involved back to frame 1 of whatever animation they are currently doing. This causes them to look glitched each time a conversation starts.

 

I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a fix for this or if it's a hardcoded bug in the game?

[grayman]

I imagine the code tells them to stop whatever they're doing, including animation.

 

The change would be to let them complete the animation.

[Goldwell]

I imagine the code tells them to stop whatever they're doing, including animation.

 

The change would be to let them complete the animation.

 

Is there anything in the editor that can let me do that? or does it have to be coded in?

[grayman]

Has to be coded. Atm, everything the AI is doing is turned off in preparation for starting a conversation, so there's no outside interference while executing the conversation.

 

Alternatively, you could try delaying the conversation until the actors aren't animating. Try this in your script:

 

 

// $Bob and $Chuck are the actors

while (($Chuck.animDone(ANIMCHANNEL_TORSO, 4) == 0) || ($Bob.animDone(ANIMCHANNEL_TORSO, 4) == 0))
{
     sys.wait(0.5); // wait 1/2 second
}

// start conversation