addin animation problems Options

[Fatality]

i am trying to get a soldier to sit down and check his weapon. i am reading Mr. Murray's editing guide but i cannot figure out what i am doing wrong.
here is what i type

soldier1 switchmove "AmovPsitMpstSlowWrflDnon_weaponchacke1";
any help is appreciated

[Benoist]

If I recall correctly I used to use "playMove", try to use that. If it doesn't work, then I don't know.

[Fatality]

that was the first one i tried, it didnt work

[D@V£]

Where are you using the command? AFAIK animation commands can't be executed except by triggers or scripts (So no initialization commands). Make sure you've correctly set up the trigger/script conditions (put "true" in the condition field to make the trigger automatically fire)

[Fatality]

i didnt know it was a trigger command thanks and ill see if it works

EDIT (12:02):still nothing

Reason for edit: Removing doublepost

[D@V£]

1. Don't doublepost. Use the edit button in the future. I've edited your posts together.

2. Make sure the animation name is correct. I checked that code you posted eariler and it doesn't look like that's a valid animation name.

I'd advise copy and pasting from the BIKI animations page (link) , rather than retyping it (you can paste text from a webpage into the editor in the same way you would with, say, notepad). The animations in ArmA all have stupidly complex names for some reason. I think they were chosen by Ondrej's hair...

[Fatality]

one last thing since i got it to work. how do i make it to where once the person reaches a waypoint he performs the animation til lets say some one spots an enemy soldier or something like that

[D@V£]

You'd need to use a script to get the best results. Looping animations should be automatically with the switchmove command (it isn't always though, I think it depends on the animation, I don't think I've actually seen animations loop in ArmA, so that might be an OFP thing though...), you can exit the animation at any time using:

CODE

This switchmove ""

I'm not a very good scripter, so I'm afraid I can't really help you here, I assume you'd need to use the findnearestenemy command to see if the soldier has spotted an enemy, then have a loop to replay the animation when it ends, and exit the loop when an enemy soldier is spotted (for longer or automatically looping animations you may want to end the animation as well)

[Fatality]

ok its sad i cant loop anims oh well. can you loop them in arma 2?