Halting an Animation

[froggyluv]

I've got a scene where a character is playing out a speaking animation but when he gets shot, continues the animation all the way thru before dying.

As you can see I don't yet know much about the scripting language

 mike playmove "ActsPercMstpSnonWnonDnon_talking01a";
_damage= getdammage mike;
while {_damage > 0.8} do exit;

[kylania]

Instead of 'do exit' (which will do nothing in an SQF file by the way), use this to stop his current animation:

mike switchMove "";

[froggyluv]

mike playmove "ActsPercMstpSnonWnonDnon_talking01a";
_damage= getdammage mike;
while {_damage > 0.8} mike switchMove "";

He still continues his animation with this. I also tried

if {_damage > 0.8} then mike switchMove "";

but still no luck.

[kylania]

One way you can do it is put this in Mike's init field:

this addEventHandler ["killed",{mike switchmove "";}]

[froggyluv]

Beautiful! You know trying so many things that fail and then to be given the answer really helps me to retain this stuff. I mean, it really pays to first try and find the answers, experimenting with different functions because it just seems to make more sense when somebody gives you an answer.

Ahh, I didn't make any sense

Thanks mate!