Troubleshooting using skeletal animation for RTSUnit Characters

Hi everyone,

Was just wondering if anybody had implemented skeletal animation for RTS characters. We were planning on doing so and I'd love any pointers on how to put it into the RTSUnit class, as I'm having some troubles. The dts file reads okay but the model doesn't animate and simply glides around the terrain.

At the moment this is the top of my operative.cs file. All the dsq files and the dts file are located in their own seperate folder.

datablock RTSUnitData(operativeBlock : UnitBaseBlock)
{
   shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/operative/operative.dts";

   sequence0 = "~/data/shapes/operative/player_root.dsq root";
   sequence1 = "~/data/shapes/operative/player_forward.dsq run";
....up until (cut to fit into char limit of post)...
   sequence30 = "~/data/shapes/operative/player_attack1.dsq attack";

   baseDamage = 50;
   attackDelay = 32;
   damagePlus = 3;
   
   armor = 1;
   
   moveSpeed = 8;
   
   range = 12;
   
   maxDamage = 250; //maxDamage = health
   vision = 100;

repairRate = 100;   
   boundingBox = "2.0 2.0 2.0";
};

And this is what's in the player.cs file...

function Player::playDeathAnimation(%this)
{
   // This will choose from 11 possible death animations.
   //if (%this.deathIdx++ > 11)
   //   %this.deathIdx = 1;
   //%this.setActionThread("death" @ %this.deathIdx);
   
   // The RTS example unit has "die" as it's animation name
   // The bot has no death animation, the building is a different name
   if( strstr( %this.getDatablock().shapeFile, "building" ) != -1 )
      %this.setActionThread("destroy", true);
   else
      %this.setActionThread("die", true);
   
}

function Player::playAttackAnimation(%this)
{
   // Lame hack because of inconsistant animation names
   // omgwtfbbq
   if( strstr( %this.getDatablock().shapeFile, "rifleman" ) != -1 )
      %this.setActionThread("fire");
   else // It's the shocker or the bot
      %this.setActionThread("attack");
}

function Player::playRunAnimation(%this)
{
   %this.setActionThread("run");
}

function Player::playRootAnimation(%this)
{
   // omgwtfbbq
   // Again another lame hack because of inconsistant animation names
   if( strstr( %this.getDatablock().shapeFile, "building" ) != -1 )
      %this.setActionThread( "idle" );
   else
      %this.setActionThread( "root" );
}

function Player::playCelAnimation(%this,%anim)
{
   if (%this.getState() !$= "Dead")
      %this.setActionThread("cel"@%anim);
}

So as far as I can tell, the sequence is called "run", and "attack" and so forth, so they should be getting called and applied... am I missing something pivotal here?

Thanks in advance,
Tim