Blinking

Thanks

Yes, with Lua - haha

Characters["Tom"].Outfits["default"].RandomMinTime = 1000

Characters["Tom"].Outfits["default"].RandomMaxTime = 3000

Now, you need to take into account that you need to do this for every character/characters outfit that you want to change the min/max random animation time for.

here's a tutorial I created a while back for adding dynamic blinking to characters - I think I've refined it since then, but it's still valid.

Sorry, I am not very experienced with Lua

Is there any difference where I put the animation, when it's controlled by Lua anyways?

For me, I inserted the animation into the idle animations because the character breathes & I didn't want the blink animation interrupt that, but you are correct, it can be added as an animation under character animations, but you need to call the correct one based on direction the character is facing - that was another thing that blending my idle animations with blink animations took care of.

So if I put the blinking in the Standing Animations with  a random timing variable, can I do it like this and write this code in the first script?

if math.random(20) < 15 then

 ActiveAnimations["front1"].AnimationLastFrame = 1

else

 ActiveAnimations["front1"].AnimationLastFrame = 5

end

Hmm... if you are not planning on using more than 1 frame for idle animations then controlling the global pause value would be better. My tutorial was intended for idle animations that contain multiple animation frames. It works by querying a random number generated by math.random & then uses that query to determine if it should display the animation up to whatever the default idle animation frame total number should be, or it displays the entire animation including the blink animation.

It won't work very well with a single frame because it's looping & querying every single frame.

As I was saying, if you plan on using a single frame, then it would be better to change the global pause value between frames instead - taking into account that you need to edit the next frame & set the global pause between frame back to the default number it's supposed to be.


so what we are doing in the code example above is setting the global pause between animation frames to a random number between 60ms & 3000ms. The smallest value should be whatever the default pause value is that you set - unless you always want a larger delay.

Hello. I used the blinking tutorial, but the result was not random. I thought that the character will blink once out of three, but he blinks or does not blink constantly until the animation changes. I tried to make the function math.random() recalculate the value every time the animtion loop starts, but it didn't work. What am I doing wrong?