[E2]HoloAnim Extension

[ben1066]

So on Unsmarts there were a few people making turrets with ungodly amounts of clip planes and they were off center regardless. This gave me an idea, allowing you to play animations (sequences) that props have built in. After about an hour I've got it working well. The video below is Divrans upgrading sentry, recorded by danking.



To get this to work you must first overwrite the file in wire/lua/entities/gmod_wire_hologram/ called shared.lua with:

ENT.Type            = "anim"
ENT.Base            = "base_anim"

ENT.PrintName       = "Wire Hologram"
ENT.Author          = "McLovin, edited for animations by dlb"

ENT.Spawnable       = false
ENT.AdminSpawnable  = false

ENT.AutomaticFrameAdvance = true

--Taken from base_gmodentity--
function ENT:SetPlayer( ply )
	self:SetVar( "Founder", ply )
	self:SetVar( "FounderIndex", ply:UniqueID() )
	
	self:SetNetworkedString( "FounderName", ply:Nick() )
end

function ENT:GetPlayer()
	return self:GetVar( "Founder", NULL )
end

function ENT:Think()
	self:NextThink(CurTime())
	return true
end

and then in wire/lua/entities/gmod_wire_expression2/core/custom create a file called holoAnim with the following code:

local CheckIndex = wire_holograms.CheckIndex

local function SetHoloAnim( Holo, Animation, Frame, Rate )
	Holo.ent:ResetSequence(Animation)
	Holo.ent:SetCycle(Frame)
	Holo.ent:SetPlaybackRate(Rate)
end


e2function void holoAnim(index, string animation)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return end
	
	local Sequence = Holo.ent:LookupSequence(animation)
	if not Sequence then return end
	
	SetHoloAnim(Holo, Sequence, 0, 1)
end

e2function void holoAnim(index, string animation, frame)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return end
	
	local Sequence = Holo.ent:LookupSequence(animation)
	if not Sequence then return end

	SetHoloAnim(Holo, Sequence, frame, 1)
end

e2function void holoAnim(index, string animation, frame, rate)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return end
	
	local Sequence = Holo.ent:LookupSequence(animation)
	if not Sequence then return end

	SetHoloAnim(Holo, Sequence, frame, rate)
end

e2function void holoAnim(index, animation)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return end
	
	SetHoloAnim(Holo, animation, 0, 1)
end

e2function void holoAnim(index, animation, frame)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return end
	
	SetHoloAnim(Holo, animation, frame, 1)
end

e2function void holoAnim(index, animation, frame, rate)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return end
	
	SetHoloAnim(Holo, animation, frame, rate)
end

e2function number holoAnimLength(index)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return 0 end
	
	return Holo.ent:SequenceDuration()
end

e2function number holoAnimNum(index, string animation)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return 0 end
	
	local Sequence = Holo.ent:LookupSequence(animation)
	if not Sequence then return 0 end
	
	return Sequence
end

e2function void holoSetPose(index, string pose, value)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return end
	
	Holo.ent:SetPoseParameter( pose, value )
end

e2function number holoGetPose(index, string pose)
	local Holo = CheckIndex(self, index)
	if not Holo then return end
	
	return Holo.ent:GetPoseParameter( pose )
end

Then restart the server or your client(if you play singleplayer) and it should work. You need UWSVNs holoModel allowing any model so you can actually have models with animations.

You should now have the following functions:

holoAnim(index, string animation) - sets the animation of the holo to that of the string
holoAnim(index, string animation, frame) - as above with start frame
holoAnim(index, string animation, frame, rate) - as above with playback rate (1 is normal)

holoAnim(index, string animation) - sets the animation of the holo to that of the number
holoAnim(index, string animation, frame) - as above with start frame
holoAnim(index, string animation, frame, rate) - as above with playback rate (1 is normal)

holoAnimLength(index) - returns the length of the animation thats playing for the specified index
holoAnimNum(index, string animation) - returns the number for that animation with the model of the holo specified

holoSetPose(index, string pose, value) - sets the pose variable to that of value, for example you can set aim_yaw for a tf2 sentries rotation
holoGetPose(index, string pose) - returns the value for the specified pose variable, for example aim_yaw on a tf2 sentry

This e2 will cycle through the models animations, playing each one in full, you can wire a screen to the I output to get the anim numbers:

@name HoloAnim Tester
@outputs I

if(first()){
    holoCreate(1)
    holoModel(1,"models/dog.mdl")
    holoAnim(1,0)
    I++
    timer("changeanim",holoAnimLength(1)*1000)
}
if(clk("changeanim")){
    holoAnim(1,I)
    I++
    timer("changeanim",holoAnimLength(1)*1000)
}

Comments, critisism and advice below, thanks If you have a server that has this, leave a comment and I'll add it to the list.

Credit to Cody for the idea, Flieboy for help finding the functions, Divran for testing and Danking for recording the video.

Servers that have this addon:
Unsmart's Wiremod Build Server - 89.238.160.112:27017

[Divran]

Here's the upgrading sentry code. Change HOLONUM in if first if you want more sentries next to eachother

@name 
@inputs 
@outputs 
@persist HOLONUM
@trigger 
#exit()
if (first()) {
    HOLONUM = 50
    holoCreate(1)
    holoModel(1,"models/buildables/sentry1_heavy.mdl")
    holoAnim(1,"build")
    timer("1",holoAnimLength(1)*1000)
    if (HOLONUM) {
        for(I=2,HOLONUM) {
            holoCreate(I)
            holoModel(I,"models/buildables/sentry1_heavy.mdl")
            holoAnim(I,"build")
            holoPos(I,entity():pos()+vec(0,60*(I-1),0))
        }
    }
} elseif (clk("1")) {
    holoModel(1,"models/buildables/sentry1.mdl")
    timer("2",1000)
    if (HOLONUM) {
        for(I=2,HOLONUM) {
            holoModel(I,"models/buildables/sentry1.mdl")
        }
    }
} elseif (clk("2")) {
    holoModel(1,"models/buildables/sentry2_heavy.mdl")
    holoAnim(1,"upgrade")
    timer("3",holoAnimLength(1)*1000)
    if (HOLONUM) {
        for(I=2,HOLONUM) {
            holoModel(I,"models/buildables/sentry2_heavy.mdl")
            holoAnim(I,"upgrade")
        }
    }
} elseif (clk("3")) {
    holoModel(1,"models/buildables/sentry2.mdl")
    timer("4",1000)
    if (HOLONUM) {
        for(I=2,HOLONUM) {
            holoModel(I,"models/buildables/sentry2.mdl")
        }
    }
} elseif (clk("4")) {
    holoModel(1,"models/buildables/sentry3_heavy.mdl")
    holoAnim(1,"upgrade")
    if (HOLONUM) {
        for(I=2,HOLONUM) {
            holoModel(I,"models/buildables/sentry3_heavy.mdl")
            holoAnim(I,"upgrade")
        }
    }
    timer("5",holoAnimLength(1)*1000)
} elseif (clk("5")) {
    holoModel(1,"models/buildables/sentry3.mdl")
    if (HOLONUM) {
        for(I=2,HOLONUM) {
            holoModel(I,"models/buildables/sentry3.mdl")
        }
    }
}

[ben1066]

Oh also, to get anim names use model viewer in source SDK.

[Colonel Thirty Two]

I tried doing this awhile back, but it didn't work...

[Drunkie]

Looks nice, good job.

[Teh Reborn Devil]

This should definitely be added to the UWSVN

[Rynoxx]

*agrees with the reborn devil* we better get this to UWSVN

[ben1066]

UPDATE: Cleaned up the code a bit and added holoSetPose() and holoGetPose().

[rouing3]

lol it was me fuckign around with a holo cliped tf2 turret i used the real prop and clipped it to turn so yea i think ill post it even though it isnt as good

[DanKing]

It works on ragdolls too: