Triggering Animation based on change in x Position

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On 30/10/2011 at 16:25, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I'm very new to Python on C4D, but I'm sure what I'm trying to do is possible with Python.

Basically, I have a sprite that is composed of three objects - an animation of an 8bit character walking.

I have the code working in an XPresso node so far that I'm able to switch the character's state based on User Data, but I would really like to trigger the walk cycle depending on how much the character has moved on X. Something like if last position has changed on x by five, switch to next state and so on.

I know that will have to do with Vectors and Time, but I'm a little lost as to where to start.

Thanks in Advance,

-SP

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On 31/10/2011 at 03:32, xxxxxxxx wrote:

if you want user data to change depending on how much the character has moved so far, it would be possible with xpresso, too.
But its more comfortable through scripting though. :)

states = [0, 100, 200, 300]     # units on the x-axis  
                              # the indices of the values represent  
                              # the state of the userdata for this value  
  
def **getState** (x_pos) :  
  if x_pos < states[0]:  
      return 0  
  
  for i in xrange(len(states) - 1) :  
      if x_pos >= states[i] and x_pos < states[i + 1]:  
          return i + 1  
  
  if x_pos >= states[-1]:  
      return len(states)  
  else:  
      pass  
      # should never run until here !.  
  
for i in xrange(-100, 500, 120) :  
  print ("State at x-position %s:" % i).ljust(30, "."), getState(i)

State at x-position -100:..... 0  
State at x-position 20:....... 1  
State at x-position 140:...... 2  
State at x-position 260:...... 3  
State at x-position 380:...... 4

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On 31/10/2011 at 14:46, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks for the reply!

That is a great solution, but what I'm looking for I think is even simpler. I basically have three frames that will loop depending on how far on X the character has moved.

What I need is some way of storing how much the character has moved on X. To do this, I need to test the change over time, and the c4d.BaseTime module is very unwieldy. It looks like I might need to store a frame number, from the documentation.

Is there a simple way to check for change in X over a certain amount of time?

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On 31/10/2011 at 15:31, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Is there a simple way to check for change in X over a certain amount of time?

Course,

class _container:   
    pass   
data = _container()   
data.last_x_pos = 0   
  
def main() :   
    pos = op.GetAbsPos().x   
    delta = pos - data.last_x_pos   
    #....   
    data.last_x_pos = pos