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HeroEngine Support => Scripting & Programming => Topic started by: Mikey90 on Apr 29, 14, 01:11:58 AM

Title: How do I get my animated character in the engine?
Post by: Mikey90 on Apr 29, 14, 01:11:58 AM

I was wondering, is there an easy way to get an animated character into the engine? As far as I can tell I have to get the character in the CCS system first and then have it work with the ACCC once it's logged in. Is there a way to bypass having to make a functioning CCS?

Title: Re: How do I get my animated character in the engine?
Post by: WorldWideZ on Apr 29, 14, 02:28:29 AM

The best way to first test your char is to load it as a npc. if it works as expected when you have it possessed you can use the following to replace the main character.


We use this code to change appearance , i am unsure how dependent it is on other stuff so let me know. It is server side code we call from a chat command.

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// Function to change your character
remote function Survivor_ChangeCharacter_Civillian(sourcePID as ID)
 
 
  accountID as ID = sourcePID                               // get account ID
  accntNode as NodeRef of Class _PlayerAccount = accountID  // use as node to
 
  var current_character_appearance = accntNode.GetMyVisibleCharacter()
  glomclass( "_extendedeventobject",  current_character_appearance )
  where current_character_appearance is kindof _extendedEventObject
    current_character_appearance._extendedEventLookup["_characterSpecification"] =\
      current_character_appearance._characterSpecification
    marshal current_character_appearance.geometry_list to \
      current_character_appearance._extendedEventLookup["geometry_list"]

    current_character_appearance._characterSpecification = "Civillian_1"
   
.
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Title: Re: How do I get my animated character in the engine?
Post by: Mikey90 on Apr 29, 14, 08:33:03 PM

how do you call the function?

Title: Re: How do I get my animated character in the engine?
Post by: WorldWideZ on May 03, 14, 02:57:59 AM

We use a chat command :D

http://hewiki.heroengine.com/wiki/Chat_commands

Title: Re: How do I get my animated character in the engine?
Post by: Mikey90 on May 04, 14, 12:49:50 PM

Awesome thanks. I was finally able to get our character imported into the game and thanks to your suggestion of importing as an NPC and possessing. Everything seems to work fine. I haven't tried out the chat command yet though. I'll try that later today.