Create action on move?

Neverwinter Nights 1 Toolset, Scripting, NWNX
1

Hi all,
As you may have seen I’m implementing Palmweaver’s mocap animations in TOUD and I had something I wanted to do … namely, I want the animation to play, until such time as the player moves. I have see this done elsewhere so I know its possible but I’m not finding an event to attach it to? How would I accomplish this?

  • May
2

I use this snippet in the OnHeartbeat to make PC get prone when not in movement and in stalth mode… perhaps it’s of some use for you:

 if (GetActionMode (oPC, 1) && GetCurrentAction (oPC) ==  65535 && !HorseGetIsMounted(oPC)) {
            AssignCommand(oPC, PlayAnimation (30 ,0.5, 600.0));
            int iHide = 4;
            effect eHide = EffectSkillIncrease(SKILL_HIDE, iHide);
            eHide = ExtraordinaryEffect(eHide);
            ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY, eHide, oPC, 6.1f);
}

The script also applies a temporary bonus to hide for a round (what makes me remember that I have to adjust that bonus to look after Class/Ambient/Daylight/Whatever), but you can remove it.

Where can I get those animations? Cause I’m not too confortable with the “prone” one I’m using (GetLow)

B.

3

These ones here:
https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/module/mocap-animations

My specific application is wanting them to break the animation when theyre kneeling if they try to move.

4

Well, that’s my code would do. Break the animation as soon as player moves.

If you want the PC to get stuck until the animation finishes… Perhaps apply a paralizelike effect right after the animation begins?

5

Yeah my reservation with that is usually those will stop a player from moving… there has to be a way to figure it out though, hmm.

6

I do that sort of things like Baireswolf, but use pseudo-heartbeats in place of heartbeats because i find the non adjustable 6 sec tick annoying (too slow) in a lot of cases.

If you need one, i used this pseudoHB system with good success in my mods:
https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/script/heartlib

CG

7

Can’t you just replace some existing animation and then use ActionPlayAnimation? If the PC moves it’ll auto cancel it.

Eg:

ReplaceObjectAnimation(oPC, “worship”, “thecustomanim”);
AssignCommand(oPC, ActionPlayAnimation(ANIMATION_LOOPING_WORSHIP, …));

8

I’m doing something like this already but it just continues to play the animation after:

else if (sAnimation=="nicewave") {
         // one shot anim of length 4.6
         ReplaceObjectAnimation(oPC, "pause1", "nicewave");
         DelayCommand(4.6, ReplaceObjectAnimation(oPC, "pause1", ""));
         AssignCommand(oPC, ActionPlayAnimation(ANIMATION_LOOPING_PAUSE));
}

It may be because I replace the idle animation, I’ll try another looping animation.

9

Reporting back: yeah, the animation just starts looping again once you stop moving.

10

This seems very useful. I can make a script that checks every second or couple of seconds if they’re moving and if so reset the animation - that should do it.

11

I’ve been trying to use that one but my heartbeat script doesn’t seem to be running, not sure why.
If I want to attach a script to players, is ClientEnter a good hook, or how would I see to it?