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Triggered effects

hek293

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Hi guys,

I m looking for some help from someone with experience in creating triggered events (fx) during the course of an animation.

I was able to successfully add an event that triggered a desired effect at some point during the animation. Problem is, the frame at which the event is added, has no correlation with the actual timing that I see in FS. For example, I set the event trigger at around frame 1000, and it seems to randomly appear at completely different point during the animation.

All animations are tagged 'non-random ambient'

Any clues on this?:confused:
 
Hi,

Can you explain what you mean with a triggered effect? Would that not only be for missions or maybe I misunderstood what you are doing.
 
Hi Arno,

I was trying out the triggered event as is mentioned in the Animation Manager section of the SDK. It mentions the following:

'Events allow a user to add special effect triggers into an animation (for examples of these, open up the oil rig or the orca whale models). Frame is the frame at which the effect is triggered, Name/Command should be set to VFX0 (the internal code for triggering a visual effect), and Parameter is effectname,attachpoint name (for example, fx_whalebreach,attachpt_whalebreach_1). Every time the animation gets triggered, the associated effects play. You need to have an animation selected in order to add events to it.'
 
Hi,

Humm, I never tried that. Sounds interesting :)
 
Yes, but a bit tricky. The effect is indeed triggered, but the frame that is added in MAX does not correlate with the frame at which it gets triggered in FS. odd. At least in my case.

problem is that the oil rig example doesn't seem to give out too much info.

Perhaps smth that could be implemented in a 'working' fashion in MCX (add animation trigger?):p
 
Hi Emilios

Could you elaborate on how you exactly managed to add a event based effect? The SDK is a bit blurry on this. Does the effect have to be attached somewhere in the model already?

Edit: Got it to work. But it seems it only works with Animation of Type = "Standard", such as the Ambient ones. "Sim" types don't work, at least I couldn't trigger anything then.
 
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The oil rig has its trigger's set by time and distance. I can't think one effect that is triggered by animation keys.
At the worst case you can trigger a fire explosion when a building falls by the trigger being that the animation is at 100% finished.
This would be close to what your explaining and might be how some of the oil rig effects work.
 
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