Get down on all fours animation before running on all fours

[Eusong]

I'm trying to get my creature, which walks on two legs, to get down on all fours before it starts sprinting. However, the animations for getting down and getting back up don't play. Here's my stategraph.

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local states=
{

	State{
        name = "death",
        tags = { "busy" },

        onenter = function(inst, playanim)
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("death")
            inst.Physics:Stop()
            RemovePhysicsColliders(inst)
        end,
    },
	
    State{

        name = "idle",
        tags = {"idle", "canrotate"},

        
        onenter = function(inst, playanim)
        	
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle", true)
        end,

    },

	
    State{

        name = "run",

        
        tags = {"run", "canrotate", "moving" },

        onenter = function(inst, playanim)
        	
			inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("run_pre", false)
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("run", true)

    		
    		inst.components.locomotor:RunForward()            
        end,
		
        onexit = function(inst)
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("run_pst", false)
        end,
    },   

    State{

        name = "walk",

        
        tags = {"walk", "canrotate", "moving" },

        onenter = function(inst, playanim)
        	
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("walk", true)

    		
    		inst.components.locomotor:WalkForward()            
        end,
    },	

    
    State{

        name = "yell",

        
        tags = {"yell", "canrotate", "moving"},

        onenter = function(inst, playanim)

            
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("attack")
        end,

        
        events=
        {
            EventHandler("animover", 
                function (inst, data)

                    .
                    inst.sg:GoToState("run")
                end
            ),
        }        
    },    
	
    State{
        name = "hit",
        tags = { "busy" },
        
        onenter = function(inst)
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("hit")
            inst.Physics:Stop()            
        end,

        events =
        {
            EventHandler("animover", function(inst)
                inst.sg:GoToState("idle")
            end),
        },
    },
	
	State{
        name = "attack",
        tags = { "attack", "busy" },

        onenter = function(inst, cb)
            inst.Physics:Stop()
            inst.components.combat:StartAttack()
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("angry")
        end,

        timeline =
        {
            TimeEvent(15 * FRAMES, function(inst)
                inst.components.combat:DoAttack()
            end),
        },

        events =
        {
            EventHandler("animover", function(inst)
                inst.sg:GoToState("idle")
            end),
        },
    },
	
	State{
        name = "sleep",
        tags = { "busy", "sleeping", "nowake", "caninterrupt" },

        onenter = function(inst)
            inst.components.locomotor:StopMoving()
            inst.AnimState:PushAnimation("sleep_pre", false)
        end,

        timeline =
        {
            TimeEvent(202*FRAMES, function(inst)
                inst.sg:RemoveStateTag("caninterrupt")
            end),
        },

        events =
        {
            EventHandler("animqueueover", function(inst)
                if inst.AnimState:AnimDone() then
                    inst.sg.statemem.continuesleeping = true
                    inst.sg:GoToState(inst.sg.mem.sleeping and "sleeping" or "wake")
                end
            end),
        },

        onexit = function(inst)
            if not inst.sg.statemem.continuesleeping then
                
                if inst.components.sleeper ~= nil and inst.components.sleeper:IsAsleep() then
                    inst.components.sleeper:WakeUp()
                end
            end
        end,
    },

    State{
        name = "sleeping",
        tags = { "busy", "sleeping" },

        onenter = function(inst)
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("sleep")
        end,

        events =
        {
            EventHandler("animover", function(inst)
                if inst.AnimState:AnimDone() then
                    inst.sg.statemem.continuesleeping = true
                    inst.sg:GoToState("sleeping")
                end
            end),
        },

        onexit = function(inst)
            if not inst.sg.statemem.continuesleeping then
                
                if inst.components.sleeper ~= nil and inst.components.sleeper:IsAsleep() then
                    inst.components.sleeper:WakeUp()
                end
            end
        end,
    },

    State{
        name = "wake",
        tags = { "busy", "waking", "nosleep" },

        onenter = function(inst)
            inst.components.locomotor:StopMoving()
            inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("sleep_pst")
            if inst.components.sleeper ~= nil and inst.components.sleeper:IsAsleep() then
                inst.components.sleeper:WakeUp()
            end
        end,

        timeline =
        {
            CommonHandlers.OnNoSleepTimeEvent(26 * FRAMES, function(inst)
                inst.sg:RemoveStateTag("busy")
                inst.sg:RemoveStateTag("nosleep")
            end),
        },

        events =
        {
            CommonHandlers.OnNoSleepAnimOver("idle"),
        },

        onexit = function(inst)
            
        end,
    },

}


local event_handlers=
{
	CommonHandlers.OnSleepEx(),
    CommonHandlers.OnWakeEx(),
    CommonHandlers.OnFreeze(),

    EventHandler("locomote", 
        function(inst) 
			if not inst.sg:HasStateTag("busy") then
				
				if inst.components.locomotor:WantsToMoveForward() then

					
					if not inst.sg:HasStateTag("moving") then
						if inst.components.combat.target ~=nil then
							inst.sg:GoToState("run")
						else
							inst.sg:GoToState("walk")
						end
					end


				else

					
					if not inst.sg:HasStateTag("idle") then
						
						
						inst.sg:GoToState("idle")
					end
				end
            end
        end),
		
    EventHandler("attacked", function(inst)
        if not inst.components.health:IsDead() and not inst.sg:HasStateTag("busy") then
            inst.sg:GoToState("hit")
        end
    end),
	
    EventHandler("death", function(inst)
        inst.sg:GoToState("death")
    end),
	
	EventHandler("doattack", function(inst)
        if not (inst.sg:HasStateTag("busy") or inst.components.health:IsDead()) then
            inst.sg:GoToState("attack")
        end
    end),
}
CommonStates.AddFrozenStates(states)
local function CleanupIfSleepInterrupted(inst)
    if not inst.sg.statemem.continuesleeping then
    end
end

return StateGraph("pikachu", states, event_handlers, "idle", {})

 

 

Edited February 7, 2018 by Eusong

[pickleplayer]

Ah, I beleive what you are looking for in place of  "PlayAnimation("run", true)  is

PushAnimation("run", true)

pushing an animation means it will play when the animation before it finishes. If you just play it instead of pushing it, it doesn't matter which animation came before it, it'll just play right over it as if it was never there.

[Eusong]

Thank you for replying! I tried what you suggested but now it's just invisible whenever it runs.

 

[pickleplayer]

Woops, here, try this too

Replace  inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("run_pre", false)  with just   inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("run_pre")

I don't think the "false" needs to be there. Or maybe it needs to be true, I don't remember off the top of me head, I'll look into it a little bit more later.

Does it's run state work, by the way? As in, does it move around properly (excluding the animation bugs)? I don't think I've seen a run state set up like that before. Not that it wouldn't work, I'm just curious if a state that simple works well enough for a creature to move

[Aquaterion]

47 minutes ago, pickleplayer said:

Woops, here, try this too

Replace  inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("run_pre", false)  with just   inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("run_pre")

I don't think the "false" needs to be there. Or maybe it needs to be true, I don't remember off the top of me head, I'll look into it a little bit more later.

Does it's run state work, by the way? As in, does it move around properly (excluding the animation bugs)? I don't think I've seen a run state set up like that before. Not that it wouldn't work, I'm just curious if a state that simple works well enough for a creature to move

the false/true is whether it should loop or not, by default its false, so doing that shouldn't change anything.

 

But you could check and make sure that the run_pre and run_pst animations exist in your build.

store the spawned creature in a variable, and call the code what you normally would do on it;

creature = c_spawn("PREFABNAME"); creature.AnimState:PlayAnimation("run_pre");

 

[Eusong]

Ah, it turns out I accidentally named the animations in the wrong order.

(run_side_pre instead of run_pre_side, etc)

So the animation plays for it getting down on all fours, but not getting back up.

And yes, the creature does move while running.

Edited February 7, 2018 by Eusong

[Eusong]

Anyone? I'm still having trouble with this.

[Aquaterion]

could be the same issue of push instead of play again. Your Walk/Idle might be overriding the run_pst animation

[Eusong]

If that is the problem, I've tried everything I can think of to fix it and it still won't work.