Scientist sit idle without interruptions Created 8 years ago2015-11-19 11:34:08 UTC by EsprimoP

Greetings

How to set up animations for monsters for example monster_scientist? I know I need scientist, trigger_auto and scripted_sequence. I tried making the scientist sitting with the animation sitidle, but whenever I come near the scientist he stands up.. breaks the animation. I set No Interruptions and Repeatable in scripted_sequence flags.

monster_scientist:

Name: walt
Flags: Pre-Disaster

scripted_sequence:

Name: sitdown
Target Monster: walt
Trigger Animation: sitidle
Repeat rate: 1

And trigger_auto that triggers sitdown (The s_sequence)
I want to make the scientist just sit down, not get interrupted.. even if he gets shot by the player.

There's a monster_sitting_scientist just for this.

Moved to HL Engine Discussion

That only works if you want him at a keyboard though.

There should be another animation field in your scripted sequence. Something like Idle Animation? You should be using that for looping animations.

In some cases certain animations are just not loop-able though you can fix it yourself by decompiling the model and copying the lines of animations which are looped. I did that once in one of my mods to show off a floating scientist under water. Originally that animation lasted only like 12 seconds but I made it last forever..

But simple sit animations should all be loop-able so no worries about that.
Unq pointed you to the right entity. Use the sitting Scientists.

You want the idle animation to be sitidle, and the target monster your scientists name as urby said.

Hell stay in that anim until you tell him different.

Read my post again. I said whenever I get near the scientist the animation breaks, otherwise It's looped perfectly.

monster_sitting_scientist actually sounds better.. since I don't plan to move the scientist anywhere.. but for the future when I need normal scientist.

Well I guess I only had to use Idle Animation instead of Action Animation in the scripted sequence.. I'd like to apologize for opening this topic just for a dumb tiny thing. The names confused me a little.

That's what this forum is here for so we can ask our questions and learn of the answers..

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