0004063: Anim channels need to be enabled when another channel syncs to them - The Dark Mod Bugtracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004063	The Dark Mod	Animation	public	27.01.2015 19:28	31.01.2015 18:40

Reporter	SteveL	Assigned To	SteveL
Priority	normal	Severity	normal	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	TDM 2.03
Target Version	TDM 2.03	Fixed in Version	TDM 2.03

Summary	0004063: Anim channels need to be enabled when another channel syncs to them
Description	Anim scripts for legs/torso channel can be disabled by frame commands in the anims themselves, or by AI scripts in 2.03. When one channel (A) syncs to another (B) and disables its own (A's) scripts, we need to ensure that B's scripts are running.
Additional Information	This caused drunken AI with a bottle in hand to freeze, because idle_drunk_bottle calls overrideLegs to disable the legs and sync them to the torso, and it has a tendency to do it in the same frame that Torso_Turn disables the torso script at the beginning of a turn, meaning to sync the torso to the legs. Always enabling the channel being synced to resolves those conflicts. Sequence of events Drunken AI stops walking and needs to turn, e.g. at a door. Idle states kick in briefly on both Torso and Legs before the desire to turn is detected by the animation scripts. The AI starts to play animation "idle_bottle_drunk". A couple of frames later, the turn scripts are activated. (new anim states are Torso_Turn and Legs_TurnLeft, but those scripts haven't activated their anims yet). Meanwhile "idle_bottle_drunk" is still playing on the torso and executes an "overrideLegs" frame command. The legs script gets suspended by that override before it begins to execute, although the AI is already in anim state "Legs_TurnLeft" The Torso_Turn script detects that the legs are in state "Legs_TurnLeft" and syncs to the legs, disabling its own scripts. At this point both legs and torso are suspended, waiting on one another, and the AI won't move until something happens to trigger a new anim state.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
27.01.2015 19:28	SteveL	New Issue
27.01.2015 19:28	SteveL	Status	new => assigned
27.01.2015 19:28	SteveL	Assigned To	=> SteveL
31.01.2015 18:40	SteveL	Note Added: 0007400
31.01.2015 18:40	SteveL	Status	assigned => resolved
31.01.2015 18:40	SteveL	Fixed in Version	=> TDM 2.03
31.01.2015 18:40	SteveL	Resolution	open => fixed