Character Animation from Weapon

#1 in your onFire script put:-

%obj.setActionThread("celwave");

use whatever animation you have instead of 'celwave'
to get your animation looking right you may have to put a call to your setActionThread in another of your state's

stateName[4]                     = "Reload";
   stateTransitionOnNoAmmo[4]       = "NoAmmo";
   stateTransitionOnTimeout[4]      = "Ready";
   stateTimeoutValue[4]             = 0.1;
   stateSequence[4]                 = "Reload";
   stateScript[4]                   = "onReload"; 
...
...
function Weapon::onReload(%this, %obj, %slot)
{
   %obj.setActionThread("celwave");
}

where 'Weapon' is the name of your weapon & 'celwave' is the name of your recoil or whatever animation.

hope this helps :)

#2 Oh by the way, you will have to rem out the eyeOffset in your weapons datablock

//   eyeOffset = "0.21 0.42 -0.6";

or your weapon won't be stuck to your hand in 1st person mode.

#3 Thanks David! The advice worked great and I now have a great animation upon fire.

But, there's one thing though. It seems that when I try to "fire" while I'm running, the animation I have playing is cut off. Any suggestions for settings of this animation? I.e. what properties for the sequence should I have (cyclical, complete sequence, blend, etc???)

#4 I don't think it has to do with the type of animation - Torque automatically stops action animations when the character is moving. You'd need to edit the source code to stop that happening. Try checking out the animation functions in player.cc - there's a comment somewhere about stopping action animations when we're going to move.

#5 its in Player.cpp in updateMove()

search for,

// Cancel any script driven animations if we are going to move.
      if (moveVec.x + moveVec.y + moveVec.z != 0.0f &&

But im not sure if that is the way we should be doing it, as by default really Weapon animations should not be canceled when your running around.