Difference between revisions of "DoorAnim"
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| − | DoorAnim= is a tiberian sun era feature used on war factories where the anim listed under DoorAnim= is played the moment that a unit is created from the factory, and was used to play the door animation. The logic uses arcane animation methods similar to gate logic where, instead of reading a conventional building animation entry, it reads the DoorAnim='s raw shp file sequence for the frame count specified in the [[DoorStages]]= entry. Door animations have no way to control for ZAdjust nor YSort, and automatically assume that the .shp file has shadow frames. Like gates, door anims will play from the first frame to the last frame, and then play backwards from the last frame back to the first creating a loop. DoorAnim animation rate is not normalized. | + | DoorAnim= is a tiberian sun era feature used on war factories where the anim listed under DoorAnim= is played the moment that a unit is created from the factory, and was used to play the door animation. The logic uses arcane animation methods similar to gate logic where, instead of reading a conventional building animation entry, it reads the DoorAnim='s raw shp file sequence for the frame count specified in the [[DoorStages]]= entry. Door animations have no way to control for ZAdjust nor YSort, and automatically assume that the .shp file has shadow frames. Like gates, door anims will play from the first frame to the last frame, and then play backwards from the last frame back to the first creating a loop. DoorAnim animation rate is not normalized; instead, the length of the animation is actually determinant on how long it takes the vehicle to leave the war factory. |
In RA2 the logic is still functional but highly obsolete since DoorAnim's cannot accomodate aircraft leaving the top of the factory, and conflicts with the [[DeployingAnim]] and [[UnderDoorAnim]] animations that now render the layers of the factory which have also unfortunately been hardcoded to play a single frame. | In RA2 the logic is still functional but highly obsolete since DoorAnim's cannot accomodate aircraft leaving the top of the factory, and conflicts with the [[DeployingAnim]] and [[UnderDoorAnim]] animations that now render the layers of the factory which have also unfortunately been hardcoded to play a single frame. | ||
Revision as of 23:35, 8 January 2022
DoorAnim= is a tiberian sun era feature used on war factories where the anim listed under DoorAnim= is played the moment that a unit is created from the factory, and was used to play the door animation. The logic uses arcane animation methods similar to gate logic where, instead of reading a conventional building animation entry, it reads the DoorAnim='s raw shp file sequence for the frame count specified in the DoorStages= entry. Door animations have no way to control for ZAdjust nor YSort, and automatically assume that the .shp file has shadow frames. Like gates, door anims will play from the first frame to the last frame, and then play backwards from the last frame back to the first creating a loop. DoorAnim animation rate is not normalized; instead, the length of the animation is actually determinant on how long it takes the vehicle to leave the war factory.
In RA2 the logic is still functional but highly obsolete since DoorAnim's cannot accomodate aircraft leaving the top of the factory, and conflicts with the DeployingAnim and UnderDoorAnim animations that now render the layers of the factory which have also unfortunately been hardcoded to play a single frame.
