This is a brief tutorial on how to animate models using the "defaultactor".


#animtree's

*Each "class" of model has its own #animtree i.e. "generic_human", "player", "script_model".

*The most common is "generic_human", I'm sure you've noticed it looking through the .ff's. That's the one I'll be using in the example.

Here is a list of the #animtree's that I've come across so far. There are a ton more and I'll update as I get further into animating.

"player"
"generic_human"
"dog"
"script_model"
"zombie_cymbal_monkey"

#using_animtree ("animtree goes here");

This is the animtree that the ent you spawn in the following function will use. It goes directly above the function.

So lets begin the script.

self thread testie();

#using_animtree ("generic_human");
testie()
{
   level.test = spawn( "script_model", self.origin+(0,100,0));
   level.test SetModel( "defaultactor" );
}

Now we want to tell the ent to use the #animtree we added above. To do that we use:

level.test UseAnimTree( #animtree );

So with it added it looks like this:

#using_animtree ("generic_human");
testie()
{
   level.test = spawn( "script_model", self.origin+(0,100,0));
   level.test SetModel( "defaultactor" );
   level.test UseAnimTree( #animtree );
}

Animations

There are literally a ton of them. Not only can you use all the zombie anim's, you can also use all of the anim's found in the common as well.

For that reason I'm only going to post the zombie ones for now.

Zombie anim's:

   // deaths
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["death1"]    = %ai_zombie_death_v1;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["death2"]    = %ai_zombie_death_v2;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["death3"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_death_v1;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["death4"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_death_v2;
   // run cycles
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["walk1"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_v1;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["walk2"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_v2;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["walk3"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_v3;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["walk4"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_v4;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["run1"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_fast_v1;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["run2"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_fast_v2;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["run3"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_fast_v3;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["run4"]    = %ai_zombie_run_v2;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["run5"]    = %ai_zombie_run_v4;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["run6"]    = %ai_zombie_run_v3;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["sprint1"] = %ai_zombie_sprint_v1;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["sprint2"] = %ai_zombie_sprint_v2;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["sprint3"] = %ai_zombie_sprint_v1;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["sprint4"] = %ai_zombie_sprint_v2;
   // run cycles in prone
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl1"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl2"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_v1;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl3"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_v2;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl4"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_v3;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl5"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_v4;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl6"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_v5;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl_hand_1"] = %ai_zombie_walk_on_hands_a;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl_hand_2"] = %ai_zombie_walk_on_hands_b;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl_sprint1"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_sprint;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl_sprint2"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_sprint_1;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["crawl_sprint3"]    = %ai_zombie_crawl_sprint_2;
   level._zombie_melee[0]             = %ai_zombie_attack_forward_v1;
   level._zombie_melee[1]             = %ai_zombie_attack_forward_v2;
   level._zombie_melee[2]             = %ai_zombie_attack_v1;
   level._zombie_melee[3]             = %ai_zombie_attack_v2;   
   level._zombie_melee[4]            = %ai_zombie_attack_v1;
   level._zombie_melee[5]            = %ai_zombie_attack_v4;
   level._zombie_melee[6]            = %ai_zombie_attack_v6;   
   level._zombie_run_melee[0]            =   %ai_zombie_run_attack_v1;
   level._zombie_run_melee[1]            =   %ai_zombie_run_attack_v2;
   level._zombie_run_melee[2]            =   %ai_zombie_run_attack_v3;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["run4"]    = %ai_zombie_run_v2;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["run5"]    = %ai_zombie_run_v4;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["run6"]    = %ai_zombie_run_v3;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["walk5"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_v6;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["walk6"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_v7;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["walk7"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_v8;
   level.scr_anim["zombie"]["walk8"]    = %ai_zombie_walk_v9;

So lets tell the actor to walk like in my video.

To do that we'll add:

level.test SetAnim( %ai_zombie_walk_v1 );

The function should now look like this:

#using_animtree ("generic_human");
testie()
{
   level.test = spawn( "script_model", self.origin+(0,100,0));
   level.test SetModel( "defaultactor" );
   level.test UseAnimTree( #animtree );
   level.test SetAnim( %ai_zombie_walk_v1 );
}

We have now spawned an animated model, but what if you want it to do more than one anim?

For that well use:

level.test ClearAnim( animation to clear, time to clear it );

Updated function:

#using_animtree ("generic_human");
testie()
{
   level.test = spawn( "script_model", self.origin+(0,100,0));
   level.test SetModel( "defaultactor" );
   level.test UseAnimTree( #animtree );
   level.test SetAnim( %ai_zombie_walk_v1 );
   wait 5;//walks for 5 seconds
   level.test ClearAnim( %ai_zombie_walk_v1, .1 );//clears the anim
}

Now we'll make it so she takes a swing at you by adding a swing anim from the list.

#using_animtree ("generic_human");
testie()
{
   level.test = spawn( "script_model", self.origin+(0,100,0));
   level.test SetModel( "defaultactor" );
   level.test UseAnimTree( #animtree );
   level.test SetAnim( %ai_zombie_walk_v1 );
   wait 5;//walks for 5 seconds
   level.test ClearAnim( %ai_zombie_walk_v1, .1 );//clears the anim
        level.test SetAnim( %ai_zombie_attack_forward_v2 );//swing
}

Now we'll wait a couple seconds for the animation to complete, clear the swing anim, and then set her back to walking.

#using_animtree ("generic_human");
testie()
{
   level.test = spawn( "script_model", self.origin+(0,100,0));
   level.test SetModel( "defaultactor" );
   level.test UseAnimTree( #animtree );
   level.test SetAnim( %ai_zombie_walk_v1 );
   wait 5;//walks for 5 seconds
   level.test ClearAnim( %ai_zombie_walk_v1, .1 );//clears the anim
   level.test SetAnim( %ai_zombie_attack_forward_v2 );//swing
   wait 2;//wait for swing anim to finish
   level.test ClearAnim( %ai_zombie_attack_forward_v2, .1 );//clear swing
   level.test SetAnim( %ai_zombie_walk_v1 );//walk again
}

Note: This model will not move around the map unless you make it. It will simply walk in place.

Well there you have it. A simple brief tut on how to animate models. I'll update this thread as I learn more about it.

I'll try to answer any questions the best I can, as long as they're intelligent ones..


End result minus it following you.