sh5 or sh3

Watchman just does a rotation back and forth.
The Gates are set to open and close on the settings of Watchman.
You need to time your passage to match the gates.

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Originally Posted by privateer

Watchman just does a rotation back and forth.
The Gates are set to open and close on the settings of Watchman.
You need to time your passage to match the gates.

So the gates are opening/closing at fixed times? That would be easy to achieve even with a normal RotationKeyFrames controller

Ya. Watchman controllers were used on some AI Units for Watch Crews and radar/antenna movements.

I did discuss with other GWX Devs, doing a Fake Gun as a type of control for some actions.


The Air Raid Siren in GWX uses a fake gun and fake shell to get the effect.
It was only created as a quick idea based off of Beta testers comments saying how cool it would be if........

That's the stuff that drives me. How cool would it be if..........

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Originally Posted by privateer

Ya. Watchman controllers were used on some AI Units for Watch Crews and radar/antenna movements.

Yes, but I still don't get what was the advantage of using it rather than rotation keyframes, in the discussed case. Are watchman animations triggered by some type of event?

Originally Posted by privateer

I did discuss with other GWX Devs, doing a Fake Gun as a type of control for some actions.


The Air Raid Siren in GWX uses a fake gun and fake shell to get the effect.

Yep that cannon controller was a real goldmine as it allowed for many 'hetodorox' appliactions of it. Even Fx Update makes a large use of it. In the past, I have been studying silently the lesson that could be learned from many SHIII mods

Originally Posted by privateer

It was only created as a quick idea based off of Beta testers comments saying how cool it would be if........

That's the stuff that drives me. How cool would it be if..........

How cool would be if SH5 coastal guns worked properly

Originally Posted by gap

Yes, but I still don't get what was the advantage of using it rather than rotation keyframes, in the discussed case. Are watchman animations triggered by some type of event?

The advantage was it's a built in controller for simple movements.
Doing keyframes uses much more resources and they do take awhile to program them right.

How cool would be if SH5 coastal guns worked properly

You ain't fixed those yet?

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Originally Posted by privateer

The advantage was it's a built in controller for simple movements.
Doing keyframes uses much more resources and they do take awhile to program them right.

Do you think so? I am not talking about the MeshAnimationData controller, which requires a separate mesh for each frame. The controller I am talking about is the one used for animating aircraft propellers, and it can be applied on simple meshes

Originally Posted by privateer

You ain't fixed those yet?

Nope. Unfortunately everything looks okay in guns' files. The likely cause of them not working, and being ignored by enemy units, is that SH5 seems to miss the proper AI scripts for them

Props as on aircraft go one way only in a loop.
Watchman can be controlled with a left to right, right to left time scale.
Very handy.

The props animations are simple keyframes animations.
Problem with those? No way to control start or stop. They loop.