Unable to loop animation?

[Aodan 10]

Hey everyone,

I have been making a live base, and It has a lot of animations going. I have been using this script:

_unit = _this select 0;
_anim = _this select 1;

while{alive _unit}do{
_unit playMove _anim;
waitUntil{animationState _unit != _anim};
};

And calling it with:

0 = [this,"WhateverAnimationHere"] execVM "animLoop.sqf";

It has been working so far, but when I try some animations like:

LHD_midDeck

Where the guy is talking and looking to his right, it doesn't even want to play. I do it the traditional way (Make a trigger, add "this switchmove "animation", make a waypoint add "this switchmove "animation") and it works fine, but it doesn't loop. I tried this to see if it would loop:

animLoop = {_unit = _this select 0; _anim = _this select 1; while{alive _unit}do{_unit playMove _anim; waitUntil{animationState _unit != _anim}}}

And then put this in the waypoint and trigger:

0 = [this,"WhateverAnimationHere"] spawn animLoop

And it still doesn't play.

Any ideas?

Edited December 16, 2010 by Aodan

[AZCoder 922]

I take some script errors if I run animLoop. It is missing 3 semicolons. Here is the corrected version, sorry the style is different, just easier for me :)

animLoop = 
{
_unit = _this select 0;
_anim = _this select 1;
while{alive _unit} do
{
	_unit playMove_anim;
	waitUntil {animationState _unit != _anim};
};
};

Anyway, it's the last 3 end braces.

Also if you're not doing it, you can pass -showScriptErrors in the command line with Arma when it loads.

[Aodan 10]

Thanks mate testing that out right now. Hoping that'll fix it, but I didn't change the script at all. I could run it fine with some of the other animations. maybe I changed something accidentally. Thanks a bunch!

---------- Post added at 09:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:21 PM ----------

Oh and sorry I'm a bit of a newbie with the scripting but do I put

animLoop=

at the beginning or just whatever comes after?

[AZCoder 922]

animLoop is fine the way you have it, that creates a function which you can call wherever.... if I'm understanding the question. You don't look like a newbie with those scripts :)