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Does cat know the 0388?

Horst18519

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Hi Arno,

I was trying to use the 0388-var (minute of the hour) in cat, which isn't in the drop-down-menu, but I thought if it works with mdltweaker it ought to work with cat. I can tweak my animated object that it appears at a certain minute of the hour, but when I use cat on this object it doesn't show up. :(
If I want the animation to start at minute 14 I must put the animation condition at 0388 "14" / "14", mustn't I? Or do I have to use hex? (I got an error trying that)
 
Hi Thorsten,

It should just work like that. If you enter 0388h as variable name in the textbox it must be recognised.

Do remember that this is a trigger, so if you enter only min/max 14 then it will close again once the minute goes to 15. So might want to enter a range over which it must remain open.

I think that the minutes are just stored as normal numbers, so then there is no need to add the h when you enter their value. But if it still does not work you might want to try if that is the difference :).
 
Hm, I'm still a bit confused on that.

I set animation condition to 0338h min 14 max 15 and the trigger also to 0338h 14 and 15. Then I tweaked the mdl with exact the same condition, the 0338-var between 14 and 17 (to give the animation enough time to end). It works fine but the animation never starts immediately but some 50 seconds later. :confused:
I tried it with an ever-true trigger like time-of-day between 1 and 4, but all the same. It never starts immediately. :(

If I wait for the next appearence 1 hour later, the object sometimes shows up in the middle of the animation. But shouldn't cat reset the animation so it starts from the beginning when the condition is given again?

edit: The animation actually starts exactly at UTC**:14:50s. :eek: The first 50 secs it stays at the start-position. Why does it start 50 seconds later?
 
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Hi Thorsten,

How long is your animation? If you use the full 1024 frames it could take about 50 seconds before it comes active. This is because the animation only starts when the frame count is at zero again. And that could not be the case once the trigger is valid.
 
Aaah, I was thinking of something like that. It seemed to me that FS plays the animation always as a loop but only shows it when the trigger is set. But I thought that would be no good idea... :eek:
Now I understood that. And it's no matter at all because in Germany you're used to buses not arriving in time. :D

But that does mean that the animation takes system-ressources even if it's not shown. This would be bad, because I have a lot of animations and hoped that I could still have a good performance because they all play only once in a while.
 
Hi Thorsten,

Horst18519 said:
But that does mean that the animation takes system-ressources even if it's not shown. This would be bad, because I have a lot of animations and hoped that I could still have a good performance because they all play only once in a while.
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That is a good point. It would certainly be interesting to see if you can notice an framerate influence. In theory the code could be changed a bit, so that only the frame is calculated, but when in static mode no interpolation is done of the animation tables. But I am not sure how much difference that would give.
 
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