Animation trigger requests

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Animation trigger requests #1920

Open johnbartholomew opened 11 years ago

johnbartholomew commented 11 years ago

With the new model system it should be quite easy to have several animations that are triggered in different circumstances:

Ship: lower/raise landing gear
Ship: post-docking/pre-launch (e.g., to extend an access ramp)
Ship: atmospheric entry & exit (for folding wings); perhaps this needs settable thresholds for atmospheric pressure and ship velocity? It's a bit of a special case.
Station: docking/launch animation (opening/closing doors, moving ship-lifts, etc)
Station: docking/launch ship rails animation (just a moving empty node that the ship can attach to)

These are all paired, but I think it would be good to allow modellers to provide a separate animation for each direction if they want to. In most cases they can just provide one and we can play it in reverse where necessary.

johnbartholomew commented 11 years ago

Other requests (from this forum post):

idle animation
hyperdrive activation

mikehgentry commented 11 years ago

OK, a few random suggestions from me, though I don''t qualify as a modeller yet.

Firing has been mentioned. How about under fire? Even an unarmed cruiser / trade ship could 'batten down the hatches' when things get hairy
Tracking things would be awesome. If you could have a communications uplink which always tried to point at the nearest station or inhabited planet, or a solar array which tried to point at the nearest star... even if it only worked some of the time due to the model's constraints it would look brilliant.
In space temperature dependent animations. More venting, radiation shields appearing, that sort of thing
Buildings on the planets could have different day and night appearances or 'behaviours', perhaps

bszlrd commented 11 years ago

@jpab: I'll model something this week for those you mentioned, to have something to work with, if it's good for you. (Well, at least for the things directly related to ships, I can't promise I can touch the stations yet.) Is it enough if I list each animation in the model file in the same way as the gear animation, like docking: 100 200 etc?

bszlrd commented 11 years ago

I've put together a very simple one. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/456051/pioneer/amphiesma_hi.dae

It has a door animation from 51 to 100. Only a simple two key linear interpolation. The gear animation is 0 to 50. I haven't touched the lower lods. modelviewer-20131021-111546 . Hope this helps.

haxys commented 10 years ago

Awesome idea! What about the plasma and flames of re-entry? That would be an awesome effect. If you're going fast enough through any atmosphere on any planet, you'd create this effect.