FL Animations

This animation was more complex just because of all the moving parts. It took me a few hours to figure out how to get it all moving correctly and in unison.

You’ll see four independent animations in the video:

1. The cockpit
2. The entire base of the ship move
3. The left wing
4. The right wing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfigXGFQh5U

Now here’s hoping for some w0dk4 magic to find a new way to get these animations to work

OMFG… need to learn that… soon… asap…

U’re awesome sushi

@Mini_Me:

The thread where a lot of this was worked out is Here -reply #72
With just FL (not FLHook /FLAC) the only initiations [so far] for an animation are: docking / jumping, firing, jettisoning cargo, tractoring, and constant.

well if firing sushi can just make the S-foils being closed all the time until firing, like its supposed to be

OMG nice job on the b-wing! Thats amazing

Just throwing something in here… And I know it’s for effects (used on contrails), but maybe it’s possible somehow to use the line “use_throttle” for those animations, so when a ship accelarates the wings will fold/unfold?

@Mindhunter:

OMFG… need to learn that… soon… asap…

U’re awesome sushi

Thanks, Mind. If you have some troubles with it, hit me up. I could even make a video tutorial down the line, if you like

Moar wing folding goodness ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1JUZ7xZ3g8

@ Legion…

Thats kind were my heads headed with this… but i’d be more inclined (if i knew how lol)
to try to tie it to “trail_effect_player” in the engines… possibly via hook??

This only seems to kick in when cruise is hit… and that’s the perfect place for such an animation
might look a little funny when having docking problems though

Awsome stuff though… keeping 2 keen eyes on these delvelopments

That is just plain perfect. A small note, Sushi, easy to fix - the shuttle’s wings don’t fold up that close to the middle wing - check some screenshots about it. Not something technical, just thought I’d add this.

Ya, fixed it

Sweet ;D

Well, now I know you guys are just posturing! ;D

might need some finetunning… ;D

@Mindhunter:

might need some finetunning… ;D

I hope you didnt use CShip::open_bay because thats too easy and you lose the normal cargo bay animation

@Mindhunter:

might need some finetunning… ;D

use your wings…that’s jokes. Nice job, nevertheless!

I just saw the videos and did some testing, Mindhunter felt the need to post ^^ Out of simplicity I used open_bay() and to make it even worse I did a quick offset hack in common.dll via hex editor to prevent the shield dropping When I have some spare time (which I have not much atm because of university exams) I will try to call the animations directly (I have isolated the asm part), we will see where that leads

hehehe nice

That sounds awesome. I look forward to see what you can do!

@Mindhunter:

might need some finetunning… ;D

That’s what I was tlking about. Thanks for showing me that. I will try to have that done.

The problem I have so far is, thatnamespace DALib{ IMPORT struct IAnimation2* Anim; };seems to be wrong, since the linker searches then for__imp_?Anim@DALib@@3PAUIAnimation2@1@Awhereas it should be```
_imp?Anim@DALib@@3PAUIAnimation2@@A

Edit: Corrected typo...