Play animations in their entire length

[dennisdc]

How do I make my code play my the entire length of my animations ?

Currently they only play like half of the sequence or so, and then they revered to their idle animations or something. I have no idea why this is. It happends on my own actions and actions like MELEE_ATTACK1.
If I have short animations, it is almost not visible, but with longer anims, the problems becomes inherent.

In SetAnimation() in hl2player.cpp I have this code:

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   if (playerAnim == PLAYER_HEAL)
   {
      idealActivity = ACT_HEAL;
   }

and later this code:

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 if ( idealActivity == ACT_HEAL )
   {
      animDesired = LookupSequence("help");
      if ( animDesired == -1 )
         {
            animDesired = 0;
            DevMsg("HELP ANIMATION COULD NOT BE FOUND \n");
         }
      SetActivity(ACT_HEAL);
      //return;
   }

[longshanks]

Later on in SetAnimation you will find something applying to reload or the grenade, looks a bit like this (not exact):

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else if ( idealActivity == ACT_HL2MP_RELOAD)
   {
      RestartGesture( Weapon_TranslateActivity( idealActivity ) );
      return;
   }


Simply add your own else if for your custom activity IE:

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else if ( idealActivity == ACT_HEAL)
   {
      RestartGesture( Weapon_TranslateActivity( idealActivity ) );
      return;
   }


This works for me.

[netserk]

The RestartGesture-thing works for me too