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Timing an animation

Discussion in 'Modeling & Animation' started by Ezekiel12, Apr 14, 2012.

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    I dont want to doublepost, so I make a new thread with the specific question:

    I need to time a animation exactly. But as I wrote in the other thread it seems that SetUnitTimeScale works weird. If you have a very small value the animation runs slow if you look at it and fast if you camera is not there.

    How can I exactly time animations?

    For information, my model uses texture animations (rotation and translation), dont know if that matters..
     
    Ezekiel12, Apr 14, 2012
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    Make them use 100% speed and time the animation in the model file? :-\

    1 time unit is 1ms there, so if an animation goes from 0 to 1000 it takes 1 second.
     
    Infrisios, Apr 14, 2012
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    Yep that came to my mind. Will need about 4 model files then..

    I read somewhere that actually 960 time units there are one second in wc3, is that wrong?
     
    Ezekiel12, Apr 15, 2012
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    I did not check if it is 100% correct. Might be that 960 "units" are actually a second, though I don't see any reason for it to behave like that.
    If your map makes that much of a difference with it, you could probably be the best person to test this.
     
    Infrisios, Apr 15, 2012
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    All I know is by default a day in warcraft is 960 seconds...

    Anyway, for what purpose do you need it?
     
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    I want to take the normal cooldown model of abilities and display it ingame for a little GUI system.

    And I thought to get any cooldown would be so easy to just use SetUnitTimeScale, but to that time I didnt know that those damn animations behave like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle -.-
     
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    oh... I see...

    I guess you could create one model with different animations corresponding to the different cooldown times maybe...
     
    Adiktuz, Apr 15, 2012
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