How to change an animation nodes animation?

justinbarrett

I'm still trying to get my animations right for "Tiny RPG", but I can't find any way to change one of the nodes(inside an AnimationTree ) I want to dynamically change the animation node going into a "one shot" ...that is I want to change it's animation...e.g. from a sword attack to a hand clapping animation....

can anyone share some insight?

ligazetom

I just worked with 3D animations so far, but isn't one AnimationPlayer all you need?

It has all the animations you made and AnimationTree should only help you blend between them.

You should not have one AnimationPlayer per Animation.

justinbarrett

I am only using one animation player. I am not trying to blend them, I am trying to combine and mix actions like running + attacking to make the play more fluid.

e.g. I have a one shot setup with my running upper and attack animation(these two swap), while the runing lower animation runs independently ....

I want to swap out the attack animations with other attack animations. I do not want to try to setup a massive node structure...and it is not feasible with only one output connection.

ligazetom

First of all. I hope we are talking 3d.

Second. Blending is part of mixing isn't it?

You want to blend part of lower animation with some animations that controls only upper part?

I mean I have no idea but I think you have bad point of view.

justinbarrett

lol, what? I hope you do not think I am upset...

yes, using 3d(Spatial) the terminology used for blending generally refers to transition, I am trying to overlap...I can do it, I'm just looking for something practical..I have around 20 different attacks and setting up a system like that is better suited to code..

I hope I don't offend you, it's not my intention....at all...I'm actually in need of help so...forgive my perspective.

Does anyone else know or understand what I'm trying to do?

cybereality

I do think I understand. Like you want to have your character (lower body) run while also swinging (upper body) or some other animation (waving) after that. I believe that should be possible, if it wasn't that would be a big problem, but I don't have enough experience to say exactly how. I'm going to be testing animation next, so if you don't figure it out by then I can probably help in a couple days.

justinbarrett

double post

justinbarrett

oh I have it figured out :)...I can do it. it's just I want to swap out the animation I am using in one node(animationtree node) so that I can change between them without having to set up something crazy...that I don't think Godot can even do...

I know this is wrong but it's my intention to swap out that sword attack with other animations

anim_tree.set("parameters/attack_anim/animation/sword_hack_L",true)

So, I have an animation tree....

ligazetom

@justinbarrett said: lol, what? I hope you do not think I am upset...

:D no. I just wanted to type clearly. Sorry if it seemed like something else.

Not gonna lie, I work with godot only for one week :D. No idea about visual scripting, but:

Tell me what will trigger the swap of animation? Like you want to randomly go through all of them or going one by one in a row? Without this I can't really tell you much more so far except

1) If you are able to expose that node's parameter to change its value, you can change it from GDScript easy (or C++)

2) If there is some way (I've never work with Godot's Visual Scripting) you can create array of strings, each named how you want, you can just iterate over it (depending on when you want to change them)

yeah Overlap that's it :D

justinbarrett

I don't know how to expose that property, the rest....like arrays and loops etc are trivial.