AnimSeq & AnimLength

I just had a quick play with these 2 commands and noticed that getting them to match up is very hit and miss.
If I want to wait until a certain sequence is finished before changing to another I`d use code such as (snippet)

If AnimTime(model) = AnimLength(model)
Animate model,1,.3,walk
Else
; Do nothing
Endif

The problem is that they *NEVER* match exactly, which means I have to change to something like:


If AnimLength(model) - AnimTime(model) < .5
Animate model,1,.3,walk
Else
; Do nothing
Endif

This causes jerkyness beyond belief tho, and this is pretty much the lowest I can go (0.5) without it missing totally and goin crazy.

Also I noticed that one of the Anim commands returns a float to 1dp, the other one to 4dp....is this something I¬m doing ( i set both vars to floats to store the result) or is it something to do with blitz.

Note: I have also tried using "If Animating" and while this is better, there is still a lot of jerkyness, and I am using a tween value of 10.

Thanks guys, any ideas?

use int(animtime(mesh))

There is still a noticable jump in the movement....am I missing something here, code/command-wise?

Check the transition value

http://www.blitzbasic.com/b3ddocs/command.php?name=animate&ref=goto

Yeah cheers Rob but I`ve played with these (not a n00b! :)).

I have also done this before with a decompiled CS model and it worked great, now though there just always seems to be a pause/stutter between changing animation frames.

As I`ve said using AnimLength and AnimTime to be precise fails cos of the inconsistency between the two return values - using in does match them up, but its still jumpy.

Hmmmm.

I just animate and animating()

for idle amins, just loop them. for a jump, animate jump, blah, but set it one-shot anim, and then every frame us animating(entity) to see when it's finished, then go to the next anim, be idle or land or whatever really.
works fine.

Hmmm...Thats exactly what I¬m doing Ant, and exactly what I did with the CS guy that I did...it just doesn`t seem to be working.

I`ll go back and check everything, and also make sure its not the model.

Cheers.

PS. You a regular here now ur not on BC anymore? ;)