i made a shooting animation for my entity but i don't know how to link it to the shooting action in game, there is a particular query i should know of? (help)
#shooting animation controller
earnest wedge
royal crypt
My reply in #old-entities earlier may not have been too helpful. I think you’ll want to set up the ranged attack behavior to charge before each shot and use q.is_charged or q.is_charging to trigger the animation. Have a look at the vanilla ghast files for an example. You can modify the length of the charge time and cooldown time in the ranged attack behavior.
earnest wedge
My entity shoots 3 fireballs at the same time, so i made an animation that makes the mob shoot 3 times in one animation, so i think that the advice you gave me before should work in this case
Do You think it will work?
Because i cant test now
I am a beginner and using bridge so i work with bridge predictions
But they dont work in animation controller
royal crypt
I’m a notepad user 😅
royal crypt
Blazes shoot a burst of 3 and use a charging animation.
You want the animation to play when they shoot, not when charging?
earnest wedge
Yes
royal crypt
Maybe you could have an animation that runs during charging and then transitions to the shooting based on !q.is_charging.
May I see your ranged attack compnent?
earnest wedge
Wait a minute
"minecraft:behavior.ranged_attack": {
"priority": 3,
"burst_shots": 3,
"burst_interval": 0.1,
"charge_charged_trigger": 0,
"charge_shoot_trigger": 4,
"attack_radius": 25,
"attack_interval": 3.5
}
royal crypt
Ok. I’ll play with that with a simple ghast animation to see if my suggestion will work.
earnest wedge
you mean this ? query.facing_target_to_range_attack
royal crypt
I was going to try
Maybe you could have an animation that runs during charging and then transitions to the shooting based on !q.is_charging.
earnest wedge
I was going to try
> Maybe you could have an animation that runs during charging...
the problem is that i can't try
query.facing_target_to_range_attack could you try this for me and see if the animation works?
royal crypt
Here's a transition logic I worked up based on the timings in your attack behavior.
q.is_charged apparently returns 1 only during the time difference between charge_shoot_trigger and charge_charged_trigger in behavior.ranged_attack. So if you don't need a charging animation then you can use is_charged to transition to an animation at 0.1 seconds before an attack. So where you had charge_charged_trigger at 0 I set it to 3.9, since you had charge_shoot_trigger set to 4.
Then I added a "shoot" animation to the ghast that looks like this:
"animation.ghast.shoot": {
"loop": false,
"bones": {
"head": {
"scale": {
"0.0": [4.5, 4.5, 4.5],
"0.1": [2, 4.5, 4.5],
"2.0": [2, 4.5, 4.5]
}
}
}
}```In the animation controller I had the ghast's "scale" controller transition between the default scale and the shoot animation using q.is_charged and q.all_animations_finished.
"controller.animation.ghast.scale" : {
"initial_state" : "default",
"states" : {
"default" : {
"animations" : [ "scale" ],
"blend_transition" : 0.1,
"transitions" : [
{ "shoot" : "query.is_charged" }
]
},
"shoot" : {
"animations" : [ "shoot" ],
"blend_transition" : 0.5,
"transitions" : [
{ "default" : "query.all_animations_finished" }
]
}
}
}```So basically q.is_charged starts the shooting animation, and the animation uses keyframes for two reasons: (1) so that it can have a delay for the time between the charging and the actual shot, and (2) so that we can transition back to default using q.all_animations_finished.
earnest wedge
Oh mi god