Yes, is it very different?
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@Albertos No and I will try here to whip up an example. Your understanding is correct I was just making sure which above you were referring to.
@Alexis_Shaju So the example post above is a good example of what @Albertos suggested as the best path for getting you to your solution. But, this example is using glitch server and socket.io. Photon is not that much different other than the way it sends messages. We can take a look at player.js again.
Player.prototype.raiseEvent = function () {
if (!this.tmpVec.x || !this.tmpVec.y || !this.tmpVec.z) return;
const data = {
position: {
x: this.tmpVec.x,
y: this.tmpVec.y,
z: this.tmpVec.z,
},
player: {
name: this.app.loadBalancing.myActor().name,
playerMat: this.app.loadBalancing.myActor().getCustomProperty('Mat'),
playerAnim: this.entity.anim.baseLayer.activeState
}
};
this.app.loadBalancing.raiseEvent(0, data);
};
So I added another value to pass in with the data which is broadcast from the player. You can see the that we are getting the current animation state of the entity’s animation state graph.
On the game-room.js side…
GameRoom.prototype.updatePlayerPosition = function (content, actorNr) {
const { x, y, z } = content.position;
const playerData = content.player;
const player = this.entity.findByName(actorNr);
const playerMat = this.app.assets.find(playerData.playerMat);
// Display Actor
this.playerName = player.findByName('State').element;
this.playerName.text = playerData.name;
// Map Color material
player.render.material = playerMat.resource;
// Set player animation
player.anim.baseLayer.play(playerData.playerAnim);
// Set the position
player.setPosition(x, y, z);
};
So your instantiated temple representing the other players in your game view must have the same animation state graph attached to it as your local player in order to recreate the other players in the rooms animations. There may be corrections to the above depending on the current state of your project but I am not sure.
@Albertos can verify if I captured his idea.
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Yes, I think this is the easiest way. Make sure the local player animations works correctly. Also make sure the other player has an anim component with an anim state graph that has all animation states and no transitions between the states.
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@Tirk182 When I try the code you suggested, I get the error of reading baselayer, here it is
What could be the cause of this? Like Albertos said I should, I added an anim component and animstategraph to other player template, with no transitions between animations.
That was an error on my part, the main player didn’t have the anim component attached to it, so it works now.
The code now sort of works, except without the transitions I get something quite wierd. When I press w to move on other player, I see like little spasms in the player playing the walk animation. It is never fully carried out if that makes sense. It just spasms for a few seconds between idle and walk and then returns to idle.
Is there any way to ensure that the player plays the walk animation as long as the key is pressed?
When I try with transitions, it seems to work, I don’t know why, still glitchy and needs work on animations but the general gist is there. When enemy moves, their movement animation is somewhat now reproduced to viewing user.
My bad, you need to prevent the same animation is applied repeatedly.
So how do I prevent these repeated animations?
Based on line 16 of the example of @Tirk182 above, that will be something like below.
if (player.anim.baseLayer.activeState != playerData.playerAnim) {
player.anim.baseLayer.play(playerData.playerAnim);
}