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[mylesblasonato]

Hi guys,
How can i make one character follow another and then when the main character is idle, the other character will do an idle animation.

Cheers 
Myles Blasonato.

[HelLRaiseR]

I'm afraid that I don't understand you (I think  ), becouse you don't need to do nothing. If you want that the secondary actor follow to the main actor, in the LeftClick event of the main actor you can put secondary_actor.GoTo( main_actor.X + offset, main_actor.Y + offset ); Offset is used for the secondary actor not ocuuped the space of the main actor. When the secondary actor goes to the main actor position + the offset, the walk animation stop and WME play the idle animation.

In my game, I used an special case, some secondary actor has specific idle animations, i.e.: sit in a chair, watering flowers, repairing a car, etc. When the main actor talk with these actor, I need an aditional idle animation, I've been made an "idle talk" animation, and in the conversation y use:

actor.Talk("Hi");
secondary_actor.PlayAnim("transition between work and talk"); // for example, turn around.
secondary_actor.Talk("Hi, how do you do");
secondary_actor.PlayAnimAsync("idle_talk"); // the secondary actor wait for the main actor response.
actor.Talk("Nothing special. Can I have a look?");
secondary_actor.Talk("Yes, you can"); // When the secondary actor talks again, WME plays the talk animation again.
secondary_actor.PlayAnimAsync("idle_talk"); // and wait again for the next main actor response.
actor.Talk("OK. Thanks");
secondary_actor.Talk("You're welcome");
secondary_actor.PlayAnim("transition between talk and work"); // the secondary return to make her task.
// When the animation finish, WME plays the idle animation.

This example code, only is necessary if the secondary actor makes a task in the idle animation and you want that he wait and not made a task, but if the idle animation of the actor is an "idle" animation, WME plays automatic when the previous animation (walk, in your case) finish.

[HelLRaiseR]

Another thing,

In the last example, the secondary actor goes to the main actor position, when the main actor stops the secondary actor continues walking to the main actor position.

If you want that when the main actor stop, the secondary actor stops too, you can define and event in a frame of the main actor idle animation, in this event you can check the animation that the secondary actor is playing, and if the animation isn't idle, then you can force to play idle animation.

ACTOR3DX
{
  NAME = "main_actor"
  CAPTION = "Main actor"
  ; Rest of actor definition   
  ;--- external data
  MODEL = "file.x"
  ; Rest of .x files

  ANIMATION
  {
    NAME="Idle"
    LOOPING=TRUE
    EVENT
    {
      FRAME = 1
      NAME = "MainActorIdle"
    }
  }
}

on "MainActorIdle"
{

   if (!secondary_actor.IsAnimPlaying("idle"))
   {
       secondary_actor.PlayAnimAsync("idle");
   }
}

[mylesblasonato]

I thought that would be how to do it but when i tried it because i was adding the offset the character would move wierd when the offset had to be subtracted. If that makes sense. I'll give it another go using your technique.
Thanks again for the explaination.

Cheers 
Myles Blasonato.

[mylesblasonato]

Hi guys!
I got the character to follow properly but she doesn't use the same way points as the main character.
Why?

Cheers 
Myles Blasonato.

[Mnemonic]

She doesn't? What does she use then?

[Jyujinkai]

@mylesb

Add code to move the follower to the exact starting point of the player toon. Then when the goto command is run it should take the exact same path.. then just add a extra move at the end to offset it.... this will not work in all cases.. but will for most things. The 2 extra moment commands on the other actors will also give it a nice delay so they walk well behind the player.

[mylesblasonato]

Thanks for the response guys!
What i have done is just use the mouse.x and mouse.Y instead of the actors because it was causing problems where the follower wouldn't follow exactly and kinda be some other place

It works great now anyway because i use a proximity script that checks for the distance between the 2 characters and then stops the follower if she gets too close.

Cheers 
Myles Blasonato.