animation NPC animations blending

[Arcturus]

While I was trying to fix the 'turning' animations, I experimented with different values in tdm_ai_base.script file. Here's what it looks like when blending between animations is set to 24 frames. I

I replaced all values in the file wholesale.

[datiswous]

How/what was it previously? I don't know what I'm supposed to see.

Edit: Could it be that the change from one animation to the other (in this case a reaction on an attack) is less abrupt because it is slower?

Edited October 6, 2025 by datiswous

[Arcturus]

All consecutive animations get blended together. You can change duration of transition in frames. It's the number after comma. For example:

animState( ANIMCHANNEL_LEGS, "Legs_TurnLeft", 18 );

There are hundreds of those and changing some of them may break things of course. E.g. combat animations. Although at "18" combat seems to work.

Here's a slightly lower number (18 frames).

The randomly played idle animations are blended a lot more smoothly while NPCs walk too. Also the random head and shoulder turns that are driven by code.

 

[Arcturus]

This is what transition from run to walk looks like with current values. It's strange, because path corners are in the middle but he stops running pretty early.

 

[datiswous]

Yep. I got used to this in missions, but seeing it here it does look weird.

[Arcturus]

"path_anim" has those two properties:

blend_in

blend_out

"path_cycleanim" has by default blend_in property. In both cases they don't seem to be doing anything.

By changing values in tdm_ai_base.script one can change transitions from e.g. walk to run, but is there a way to control transitions between idle animations at all?