Really basic question

[THobson]

I thought I would venture into doing cut scenes.  I have a civilian.  I want them to be siting down from the start of the mission until I reach them.  Once I get close a cut scene will start during which they should stand up.

I can't even get to first base on this.  In the init field of the civilian I have tried various things none of which result making the civilian sit down.  A couple of things I have tried are:
this switchmove "OnChair"
this switchmove "FXStandUnivTable"

I have also tried diffenret effects eg
this switchmove "FXangel2"

These instructions seem to have no effect at all.

I must be missing something really simple.

[General Barron]

For whatever reason, you cannot make units play animations from an init field. I have no idea why, but it sux. One solution is to make a one line script that you run in their init field:

[this, "anim"] exec "switchmove.sqs"

Switchmove.sqs:

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(_this select 0) switchmove (_this select 1)
Another thing that MIGHT work is to put this in their init field:

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this call {_this switchmove "XXX"}
I know I've tried that before, but I can't remember if it works or not...

[Gooner861]

I think one of Sui's missions has soldiers sittin on chairs, i dnt know what mission it is though.

Weneva i use animations in cutscenes, i write the code in my script for the cutscene. I never use the init line cos of wot General Barron said.

[Planck]

I do believe that the only chair that works for this is ChairX, I don't think the others work.


Planck

[Triggerhappy]

this switchmove effectStandSitDown will make him sitting on the ground with his legs crossed.

fxstandunivtable works on all chairs i thought...

[THobson]

Thanks:

I tried the call approach.  It did not work.  I also found I needed to put a bit of a delay in the script before actioning the switchmove but otherwise the script work well.

[Sui]

I think one of Sui's missions has soldiers sittin on chairs, i dnt know what mission it is though.

unit switchmove "onchair"

Is what I used to get the guys in chairx.
They don't necessarily need a chair, though they look pretty stupid if they're sitting in mid air

I've seen it used so they're sitting on a weapons crate... looks quite natural.

[THobson]

I am using an steel bed.  Also looks natural