In a magic effect script I need to intercept two animation events:

• When the caster jumps
  
• When the caster lands

Right now I have set up a script that looks something like this - paraphrased to some extent...

Event OnEffectStart(aCaster, aTarget)RegisterForAnimationEvent(aCaster, "Jump")EndEventEvent OnAnimationEvent(aCaster, sEvent)if (sEvent == "Jump");Do shizzleendifEndEvent

The script compiles fine and works, but, the animation event never fires. I've tried a few permutations... "Jump", "ActionJump" "EventJump" but to no effect - What are the ACTUAL event names I need to use for "jump" and "land", is there a list somewhere? - or is my syntax up the wazoo?

Try something like

if (sEvent == "Jump")	;Do shizzleelse	debug.notification("got a '" +sEvent+ '" instead")endif

Won't fix the code, but might tell you what to listen for

I believe the problem is that a magic effect cannot send an animation event. It sends its own set of events (OnEffectStart, OnEffectFinish, and so on), but I think only actors send animation events.

You would probably need to create a Player alias, and have your spell (if your spell is an integral part of your mod) set a flag in a script attached to that alias when the spell is cast.

If you wanted to keep things purely event-based, you could... (just thinking out loud, don't know if this is the best idea...) force the player to silently equip a dummy item using your magic effect script. This will cause an OnObjectEquipped() event to be sent from your player alias and cause your alias script to fire. You can then do your Animation Event registration on the alias.

Clox: Ohhh, good idea. Thanks

UPDATE: Nah didn't work.



Chesko: Both those solutions seem rather long winded and round about.

Is there any other more direct solutions, like is there any other means to check if the player is jumping or otherwise airborne that can be checked from inside a magic effect or perk? (ie. something I can test inside an update event)

A magic effect on an actor ought to get all the events that the actor gets.

Maybe the problem is that you need to register the actor for events, but you can still listen with the effect

Have you check the: http://www.creationkit.com/List_of_Animation_Variables?

I've been able to directly check several caster related animation states successfully, and some not so

There's a call for each variable type:
http://www.creationkit.com/GetAnimationVariableBool_-_ObjectReference
http://www.creationkit.com/GetAnimationVariableInt_-_ObjectReference
http://www.creationkit.com/GetAnimationVariableFloat_-_ObjectReference

Yea, after reading the CK page on this event, magic effects are valid recipients.

Are you positive that the effect is persisting long enough to receive the event? I had an issue in the past where I was never getting events sent from my magic effect that was solved by simply making sure the duration was long enough for me to actually catch it (I had "no duration" checked) ^^:

Don't you need to register the event to catch in order to get it to show up? - still having trouble getting the animation event block to actually fire altogether.

Using an update block to catch when the bJumpState flag is up though worked however, not as elegant (given either a slight delay, or the extra CPU overhead of running frequent an update block several times a second), but that'll have to stand a solution unless I figure out how to get the animation event capture to work.

I agree, having to check the animation variables is not the most effecient solution. As I mention in this thread: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?act=findpost&pid=1394671, I tried to find an animation event that would fire when the spell caster had a spell ready. You can see in the spoiler how many events I tried to capture. Some did fire so I know I had everything working, but even though some of the animation events sounded exactly like what I needed, they didn't fire.

But how did you even know where to begin in what events to look for? - Random guesswork?

Some are guesswork actually, but no, I went through the animation events. If you didn't know, you can find them in the CK Gameplay menu, then go down to Animations. Drill in to:
Actors\Character\Behaviors\0_Master.hkx

Then drill in to the Action nodes, and you'll see the Anim Event dialog enable. Open the Anim Dropdown and see the animation events. That's where I started.

Thanks, that's exactly the sort've information I was looking for

Managed to find a few working anim events there. oddly didn't get any response out of the jump events, but the falling and landing events work as expected


EDIT:@ Found some more jump related events, I'll test those first

I use them in magic effects all the time, however only some work as expected:



RegisterForAnimationEvent(akTarget, "JumpFall")
RegisterForAnimationEvent(akTarget, "JumpFallDirectional")
RegisterForAnimationEvent(akTarget, "JumpLandDirectional")
RegisterForAnimationEvent(akTarget, "JumpLandEnd")
RegisterForAnimationEvent(akTarget, "JumpUp")

All the other "jump" do not work.

After further testing it seems JumpUp and JumpDown seem to be most reliable, far as I can tell they always fire (And I can throw in a couple landing examples for safety)

Thanks for all the help guys, this was exactly what I set out to achieve

I wonder if any new ones like for cross bow were add in the last update?