Anim Issues

[Dajan]

Hey all, standard disclaimer: I've searched & can't find anything etc, if other info exists please redirect and obliterate.

Occasionally I like to start missions with (slightly morbidly) the player surrounded by dead comrades - say as the sole survivor of a crash. Prob is since leaving OFP all those years ago I can't get the recently deceased to start of lying down in a state of rigor mortis. Instead my poor soldier is witness to all those around him suddenly taking 100 points of damage and dropping like stones.

So...

How do I start the dead AI units lying down, very dead, covered in blood?

TIA

[zonker3210]

You've tried using the "Health" slider in the mission editor and "setDamage=1" (or whatever) via script, correct?

Have you considered using a fade-in at the start of the mission to allow time for the AI units to die and keel over?

[Dajan]

That's what I'm resorting to at the moment. It just seems odd that I can't set them up to begin in a prone position or somesuch.

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unitname setunitpos "down" doesn't seem to work, and I can't work out if there's an animation that i could use.

[Zipper5]

Use something like this in a SQF script:

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_dead_unit = _this select 0;

_dead_unit setUnitPos "DOWN";
sleep 0.5;
_dead_unit disableAI "ANIM";
_dead_unit switchMove "AdthPpneMstpSrasWrflDnon_1";
sleep 0.5;
_dead_unit setDamage 1;And execute by putting the following in the unit's init line:

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null = [this] execVM "<script name>.sqf"That will make him play the prone death animation and kill him half a second afterward. Hope that helps.

[Dajan]

Thanks zipper, will give that a go! 

[haroon1992]

I think using that script will produce dead units with the same animation.
That is, if a unit is dying with its face on the dirt, all other units will be the same too.

I think you should add a fading (black in) at the start and put the sound volume to 0 (to avoid hearing the dropping body sounds).

init.sqf

put the following at the VERY START of init.sqf

titleCut ["","BLACK IN",10];
//10 seconds to fade in

0 fadeSound 0;
sleep 5;
0 fadeSound 1;

there might be a better way for example, selecting random dying anims out of an anim array..
but at the moment, I could only give you the above solution...

Regards,
Haroon1992

[Dajan]

I think I'm going to have to do a little of both:-
The script suggested by Zipper works -sort of. The scripted unit will assume the necessary position (nothing kinky involved here) without falling, however there is a brief period (maybe half a second) in which they arre still upright. I think I'm just going to have to add a fade to cover that few milliseconds  

{EDIT}

Just an update if anyone is interested - by starting the units in stealth behaviour in the script the visual impact of entering dead state is lessened.

[Zipper5]

Yes, there is a 0.5 second delay as you can see in the script. Some switchMoves you cannot execute right as the mission starts, as the unit won't recognize it, but adding a short delay between the start of the mission and the switchMove will make the unit always perform the animation.