"Warden like" emerge animation for my custom entity

[proven hare]

I've been trying to create a custom animation for my entity, basically a zombie crawling out of the ground. After long research and experimenting, I couldn't get it to work and took inspiration from another Creator , who tried to do the same. Yet I couldn't even get it to work with that as inspiration, and I have no idea whats the problem. In my current try I've used the minecraft:behavior.emerge component for behavior, and the animation stuff in animations and animation controllers

I have no idea where to start or what could be wrong, so tell me what additional information or file you need

[half cloak]

Do you have the animation ?

[proven hare]

Yes

[half cloak]

You didn't made any progress yet right ?

[proven hare]

the animation itself is buggy , as it was used for a different model and I have to make my own working, but I think the issue has to be in the animation controllers, but not sure

[proven hare]

with what? trying stuff for a few hours ? Yes. having success? no xD

[half cloak]

Are you comfortable sending the pack here ? You can remove everything except the stuff related to this entity.

[proven hare]

all the resources/ files necessary for the entity I meant ?

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Yes

[proven hare]

I'd prefer doing so in dms but if that's not okay I can send it here 🙂

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I mean send it in dms.

[proven hare]

Oh and that is a bit older version , I deleted my newest attempts, but I think in that version somethings missing like initial states im not sure

[half cloak]

Please just add the component group containing minecraft:is_sheared component to your entity after 4 seconds using minecraft:timer or bp animations and you're good to go.

[proven hare]

thanks, im gonna try that and tell if it worked afterwards : )

but the minecraft:behavior.emerge should be added immediately when spawned right ?

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You don't need it. Please just have all your components inside the component group containing minecraft:is_sheared so your mob has no AI when it spawns.

and when you add the component group after 4 seconds everything starts working.

[proven hare]

ouch I have so many components groups

[half cloak]

Then, just keep teleporting the entity.

[proven hare]

why wouldn't It work with the emerge behavior? isn't it necessary so it comes out the ground ?

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Your goal is to keep it still while playing the dig up animation.

[proven hare]

Yes, but with the example I took inspiration from it worked without that

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You should do that in the animation itself.

[proven hare]

ohh hold on

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I mean the coming out of ground can simply be a part of the animation.

[proven hare]

the emerge behavior acts like a timer itself aswell i just noticed

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Yeah

[proven hare]

because when it's done after the set time it can trigger an event

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You might also want to add the condition q.is_sheared to play all the animation controllers in the client entity file because you don't want other animations to play during the dig up animation.

[proven hare]

so should the is_sheared component group be added after 4 seconds or at spawn, when i try using behavior_emerge ?

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after 4 second.

[proven hare]

alr im gonna try that first

none of this requires experimental gameplay options right ?

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Right!

[proven hare]

alright im gonna load up a test world to check

what was the issue you found btw ?

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Your dig ac didn't made any sense so just fixed it.

[proven hare]

It doesn't work 😕

[proven hare]

might this be the problem?

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What's the issue ?

It looked crazy ?

[proven hare]

it now stands still for 4 seconds , but doesn't play the animation

nono

that would be good

xD

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Maybe, the idle animation is overlapping it.

Try what I said and show me the code before testing.

[proven hare]

alright. Well no , honestly I have no idea how to do that without doing research and watching some tutorials for an hour 😭

• my brain isn't working anymore

[half cloak]

Ok wait!

[proven hare]

Yooo thanks man! now the animation plays, but when it's done, the entity stays in a weird position and doesn't play the animations properly

I'm gonna try fixing that myself tomorrow, I'm going to sleep first so cya and thanks

if I don't have any success I'll be back anyways xD

[half cloak]

Oh wait!

[proven hare]

Sure

I can make a short clip if you need it

[proven hare]

lmao 😭

at this point I should just give up

when I rejoin the world they seem to act more closely to normal

but they still stay put in the position they were left , maybe only the general animation controller is needed to be added after the animation ? hmm

[proven hare]

why is this so funny lmao

looks like forcing 2 lego pieces into each other 😭😭

but it isn't crawling out of the ground either hmm

[proven hare]

now the zombies still stay in a weird position, but when reloading the world they look perfectly fine and act as supposed too

[proven hare]

I appreciate your effort but it doesn't turn out to work they way I wanted

oh actually it kind of works now but there's a major issue

so the animation plays immediately, but it's so broken, the entity doesn't come out the ground but moves crazy in the air, and when the animation is done, it goes without transition into its idle animation

and I don't know how to make the animation good/ working that it comes out the ground

[proven hare]

I'm gonna make a new animation in blockbench ig

[proven hare]

@half cloak I've made a new animation which should work. do I have to end the animation in a visual state that's the same of the idle one ? because that's really hard to do

[proven hare]

I'm gonna try adding the animation and changing some code then I'll report

[proven hare]

Yoo all that work and hours I spend trying to create an animation paid off! now the only issue is the transition, as you can see it doesn't go clean 🙂

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Hmm okay, I'll fix it. The issue is that you're using a separate ac for the emerge animation.

[proven hare]

do you need my animation for that or will u just change something inside the ac?

[proven hare]

do you like the animation? xD

[half cloak]

I don't need anything, don't worry!

[proven hare]

thanks 🙂

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Yeah, it's good.

[proven hare]

double thanks xD

and now I additionally learned how to create animations using blockbench it isn't that hard after trying for some time

[proven hare]

I wouldn't even have created my own animation and continue trying without your help btw thanks for looking into it

[half cloak]

Please just modify the value of blend_transition at line 52 in the animation controller until it's perfect 👌

[proven hare]

👍

[proven hare]

sigh

now it doesn't play at all

nvm

at day when they receive damage it doesn't play but that doesn't matter

[proven hare]

It works! thanks alot u helped me alot with this

[half cloak]

It has to do something with how you're adding the q.is_sheared component.

but anyways, they ain't spawning during daytime naturally.

[proven hare]

indeed, I now figured it out aswell.

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Great!!

[proven hare]

Now I got another idea, that is creating an animation happening when my entity is confronted with light. is there any query like is_sheared that could make this possible?

so when my entity gets into a higher light level once , it gets a slowness effect applied for 10 seconds. any way I could make them trigger a special animation ?

maybe by adding a component that can get tracked by queries?

[proven hare]

I set it to 0.3 and it works almost perfect 😄

[proven hare]

my entity starts shaking when in light, so I could try using query.is_shaking right ?

[half cloak]

Does it burns ?

There is a on fire filter.

and query.

[proven hare]

no, these zombies only have a 1 in 10 chance of not being resistant to sunlight

hmm I think im gonna go for it, and if I encounter any probelms could I ask you ?

[half cloak]

You can use is_underground filter with the time or day filter.

I'm not sure about the exact name of the other filter.

[proven hare]

my brain isnt braining rn, whats the difference between a quiry and filter again ?

[half cloak]

filter is something that you use within the BP entity file.

Queries are something you can use almost anywhere.

[proven hare]

nono, I meant it differently. im tracking the light level with the enviromental sensor in the behavior bp, and if its above 8 , it adds a component group that gives the entity slowness and makes it shake, but my idea was to add a fitting animation where they hold their hands before their eyes

[half cloak]

Oh, add a dummy component inside that component group for example minecraft:is_stunned and use q.is_stunned in the RP.

just like q.is_sheared.

[proven hare]

yess I wanted to try exactly that, im just not sure where to add it again

in the ac i have to create a new animation right

[half cloak]

inside the component group you're adding.

Oh! for the animation ?

[proven hare]

or does it go into the bloodwalker.general ac , just like you showed me for the emerge animation ?

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I think it should replace the idle animation ? shouldn't it ?

[proven hare]

nono

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My brain's not working man.

[proven hare]

it should only be played once and transition into the normal walking/ idle animation once its done

[proven hare]

same, actually, let me try to code everything myself and if it doesnt work afterwards you could maybe show me what i might will have done wrong xD

[half cloak]

Spawn Animation -> If Light Level Above 8, play hands on eyes animation -> then normal animations ?

[proven hare]

yes , but it would be way easier using minecraft:is_stunned or is_charged ( as a trigger to play the animation)

get what I mean ?

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Yeah, that's what I told you.

[proven hare]

indeed

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[proven hare]

ill try to create something , and if i need anythinhg ill be back:)

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Just tell me the short name of the animation you defined in entity RP.

[proven hare]

Maybe im not gonna be active for a few days btw because I have a lot going on irl so i might not respond

[proven hare]

I didnt create it yet, but I'm gonna name it something like animation.bloodwalker.stunned

[half cloak]

Oh okay!

[proven hare]

or did you mean the other name like morrisz.emerge or animation.bloodwalker.emerge

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I guess I'm going to let you do it yourself first. Here are the instructions:-
Transition to stunned state from the default state in the general ac if q.all_animations_finished && q.is_sheared && q.is_stunned. Then transition to idle state from stunned using q.all_animations_finished.

[proven hare]

alright ill do it when im not busy anymore , thanks 🙂

[proven hare]

yea i might need another 1 -2 days

[proven hare]

@half cloak I think i did everything and it doesnt work 😦

Dayum creating that stunned animation took me 4 hours I hope we can get it fixed and working

[proven hare]

So the problem is:

• stunned animation doesn't play at all

yea I definitely need help with that i tried eveythinh

[proven hare]

i checked twice either i still oversaw something, or my animation is bugged

and it should work as it works in blockbench

[proven hare]

Update: I tried several times, and now I got it to work finally, under some circumstances. Only problem now is that the animation lasts longer then it was intended to, but that's fixable I think.