Hi. I’m trying to play an animation via code. Goal is to have it play, than wait for a random amount of seconds (within a range) until it fires again. I’ve been messing with a combination of a super simple state graph + Anim component + some code but just can’t get it to even fire at will via keyup event. This ought to be really simple no?
Hi @bjorn.syse,
Have you check the following tutorial? It shows exactly that, how to fire an animation transition on keydown:
https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/tutorials/anim-blending/
There’s also this which could be simpler to do depending on your use case: Animation without State Graph | Learn PlayCanvas
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Hi, no but problem is I only have one animation clip. I have one state, and I want to repeat that. Not blend into anything else. I want to run animation once at start. Then after that be able to run it again.
This is my state graph:
And I just it working by calling Anim.reset(). Is that bad practice?
var AnimationRandomizer = pc.createScript('animationRandomizer');
// initialize code called once per entity
AnimationRandomizer.prototype.initialize = function() {
this.anim_component = this.entity.anim;
this.app.keyboard.on(pc.EVENT_KEYUP, this.onKeyUp, this);
};
// update code called every frame
AnimationRandomizer.prototype.update = function(dt) {
};
AnimationRandomizer.prototype.startAnimation = function() {
this.anim_component.reset();
};
/*
* Event handler called when key is pressed. Dev mode only.
*/
AnimationRandomizer.prototype.onKeyUp = function (event) {
console.log("Key up in " + this.entity.name);
if (event.key === pc.KEY_NUMPAD_5) {
this.startAnimation();
}
};
I don’t think that blends animation when called. You would likely be better off using the transition method shown the tutorial that I linked earlier.