Scripted ani+show ani destroy itself..

[JkWhoSaysNi]

I have a scripted ani being shown by a weapon NPC.

I want that ani to hide itself after it's finished (i tried destroy() in the ani but it didn't work) so I thought I could do something like:

PHP Code:

showani(i,x,y,0,"ani",i); 


Then in the ani:

PHP Code:

SCRIPT
function onPlayerEnters() {
    this.indexnum = params[0];
    setTimer(0.05);

}
function onTimeout() {
    this.count++;
...
    if (this.count == 100) {
         with(findweapon("weapon")) {
             hideimg(this.indexnum);
         }
    }
setTimer(0.05);

}
SCRIPTEND 


This causes an access violation... but as far as I can tell the logic is correct.


Is what I want to do possible?

[Chandler]

I'm not too sure if that would work. However, to be sure I'd make the

if (this.count == 100) {

to:

if (this.count => 100) {

Unfortanetly, I can't debug anything as of late. V$:C is down!

[JkWhoSaysNi]

I actually had that, but I thought that might have been the cause of the access violation, if it looped round again it will try to hide the image again. It doesn't make any difference, still gives access violation

[Chandler]

Is the object to follow a player? What's the objects purpose?

[JkWhoSaysNi]

It stays exactly where it's placed.

It's a fire ani I scripted, it 'burns out' after 100 timeouts. I can hide the stuff created by the ani but not the actual ani placed by the weapon/

It's displayed serverside using ids <200.

[Chandler]

Ah, why're you displaying it serverside? Some kind of damage effect I assume.

I would've thought that destroy inside the gani would have done it, but you've already tried that. Weird.

[Tolnaftate2004]

Make sure "weapon" isn't trying to modify the image/gani in any way after hiding.

Also, I think this.indexnum should be thiso.- ?

[JkWhoSaysNi]

You're right, it should be thiso I changed that and it still causes an access violation when hideimg is called. All the weapon NPC does is show the ani, it doesnt do anything else with it.

[Admins]

It should not hide itself, that's not working right now, and doesn't make a lot of sense in gani scripts anyway since it's running on each client and you only want to hide it on the client/server that controls the object. Just let the gani script stop displaying something and let a weapon or npc control the showing/hiding of the gani script attr[] (or showimg).

[Chompy]

Hmm, I've had this problem before (Float text), where when the player is hurt, it places a gani at the players location with showani( ... );
but sometimes they randomly appear around inside levels or gmaps, like they
have just been temporaly hided or something.. anyone know how to destroy them (removing them from the level or something)?

[Chompy]

Originally Posted by Chompy

Hmm, I've had this problem before (Float text), when the player is hurt, it places a gani at the players location with showani();
but sometimes they randomly appear around inside levels or on gmaps, like they
have just been hided or something.. anyone know how to destroy them (removing them from the level or something)?

Anyone can help me?
(Trying to destroy them from the gani)

[Chandler]

Originally Posted by Chompy

Anyone can help me?
(Trying to destroy them from the gani)

Make the damage display a player.attribute. Remove the attribute once it's been used.

[Chompy]

Originally Posted by Chandler

Make the damage display a player.attribute. Remove the attribute once it's been used.

Hmm, could you explain? :] I usually don't use player.attr for showing ganises :o
No experience at that area, the ganises with player.attrs :]

[Chandler]

Originally Posted by Chompy

Hmm, could you explain? :] I usually don't use player.attr for showing ganises :o
No experience at that area, the ganises with player.attrs :]

Sorry for the long reply. I had to chase six youths who have just thrown a snowball at my house. I did it back to theirs!

function onActionclientside(curOption, curMessage)
{
  if (temp.curOption == "addAttr")
  {
    this.attrSize.add(temp.curMessage);
    this.onTimeout();
  }
}
function onTimeout()
{
  if (this.doCount > 0)
  {
    this.doCount -= 0.05;
    if (this.doCount <= 0)
    {
      this.attrSize.delete(0);
      this.doCount = 0;
    }
    setTimer(0.05);
    return true;
  }
  if (this.attrSize.size() > 0)
  {
    player.attr[3] = "myGani," @ this.attrSize[0];
    this.doCount = 5; //Alter this to how long the display lasts
    setTimer(0.05);
  }
}

Maybe something like this?

[Inverness]

Well I'm at school now so I can't test this for now.
You could get the object of the gani and join it to a class that destroys itself after a time limit.