Warning about destroying not finishing

[Michael_Gummelt]

In my project, I was using the different anim slots as a quick &amp; easy way to make multiple ship and weapon types in one object. Problem is, I was using the first 5 or 6 anim slots, including the "disappearing" one. Turns out that one is played automatically when you're destroyed. This works fine as long as you're not already *in* that anim when you're destroyed. By 5th ship type (and all it's projectiles and shield fx, etc.) were using that slot normally... so when it tried to destroy itself, it'd try to play that anim and, I assume, fail because it was already *in* that anim and, thus, would never auto-remove itself at the end of the anim. The result was almost a hundred objects sitting around in the world (invisible since I made the last frame of that anim hard to see) and slowing the game to a standstill... <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Michael_Gummelt]

In my project, I was using the different anim slots as a quick &amp; easy way to make multiple ship and weapon types in one object. Problem is, I was using the first 5 or 6 anim slots, including the "disappearing" one. Turns out that one is played automatically when you're destroyed. This works fine as long as you're not already *in* that anim when you're destroyed. By 5th ship type (and all it's projectiles and shield fx, etc.) were using that slot normally... so when it tried to destroy itself, it'd try to play that anim and, I assume, fail because it was already *in* that anim and, thus, would never auto-remove itself at the end of the anim. The result was almost a hundred objects sitting around in the world (invisible since I made the last frame of that anim hard to see) and slowing the game to a standstill... <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Anders]

Instead of using the existing animations (stopped,walking,ect,ect..) you should just add some user-animations. You can add as many as you want and rename them. That way you can have hundreds of weapon types in one object without using the MMF controlled ones. <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Anders]

Instead of using the existing animations (stopped,walking,ect,ect..) you should just add some user-animations. You can add as many as you want and rename them. That way you can have hundreds of weapon types in one object without using the MMF controlled ones. <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[rocko]

That's also real handy for particle effects, just make a Disappearing animation and nothing else, then all you have to do is create the object and it will destroy itself immediatley, no lines of code.

[rocko]

That's also real handy for particle effects, just make a Disappearing animation and nothing else, then all you have to do is create the object and it will destroy itself immediatley, no lines of code.

[Michael_Gummelt]

[]Instead of using the existing animations (stopped,walking,ect,ect..) you should just add some user-animations. You can add as many as you want and rename them. That way you can have hundreds of weapon types in one object without using the MMF controlled ones. <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> [/]

Hehe, yeah, that's what I ended up doing - I'm really still learning all the ins and outs and particulars of the dev tool. It's pretty powerful and very impressive. Definitely a great tool for making games quickly! I have a pretty functional Space Wars/Star Control homage going in about a week and a half...

[Michael_Gummelt]

[]Instead of using the existing animations (stopped,walking,ect,ect..) you should just add some user-animations. You can add as many as you want and rename them. That way you can have hundreds of weapon types in one object without using the MMF controlled ones. <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> [/]

Hehe, yeah, that's what I ended up doing - I'm really still learning all the ins and outs and particulars of the dev tool. It's pretty powerful and very impressive. Definitely a great tool for making games quickly! I have a pretty functional Space Wars/Star Control homage going in about a week and a half...