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How to pause an animation started by setActionThread?

by weihua · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/27/2010 (11:58 pm) · 6 replies

e.g. if a bot is running. I shoot it with a freezing bullet.
I want the bot's animation also freeze at the time it is hit.
I can not find function like pauseThead to pause an animation started by setActionThread.
Anyone can give me a direction? Thanks a lot!
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Associate Konrad Kiss
Bitgap Games
#1
06/28/2010 (1:37 am)
You could setThreadTimescale(slot, 0) to pause and setThreadTimescale(slot, 1) to continue the animation forward. There are other ways I think, but they all boil down to this.

Torque 3D Owner weihua
China Pixel Game
#2
06/28/2010 (6:23 pm)
Thank you Konrad. But can setThreadTimescale affect actionthread?
I think there is no slot for action thread.
setThreadTimescale(slot, 0) may be as same as pauseThread(slot).
I still don't figure out how to pause an animation started by setActionThread, not playthread.

Associate Konrad Kiss
Bitgap Games
#3
06/29/2010 (2:36 am)
Oh, right, sorry about that, weihua, I wasn't paying enough attention to your post.

Torque 3D Owner weihua
China Pixel Game
#4
06/29/2010 (5:34 pm)
That's OK. Still thanks for your answer :-)

Torque Owner JesseL
Pyrotronics-Games
#5
06/29/2010 (6:18 pm)
I would think you would want to extend your play sequences and threads. Perhaps you could see if the plastic gem about animation threads applys to you?

Torque 3D Owner weihua
China Pixel Game
#6
06/29/2010 (10:15 pm)
Thank you JesseL.
I just want to know if T3D engine offer such a function like pause the animation started by setActionThread. Because all move actions are played by setActionThread. I want to know if there is some way to pause such animations.