Cars – Animations

With extra animations for cars, now you no longer have to create extra wings to add new animations. They could be bound to a lot of different inputs, allowing, for example, to create complex dashboard instruments.

Animations can work in two different modes:

• Using INPUT as trigger:

  Start animation as soon as it goes over a set threshold (similar to how emissives use inputs). Apart from other parameters, INPUT_THRESHOLD and INPUT_THRESHOLD_INVERSE could be used to adjust behavior.

• Using INPUT as animation progress value, directly:

  If bound to gas pedal, for example, for half-pressed pedal animation progress would be set to 50%. LUTs and other INPUT options are available to scale behavior and add things like snapping to certain points of the animation).

Syntax

[ANIMATION_...]
INPUT = REVERSE             ; bind to reverse gear
; BIND_TO = REVERSE           ; or this
FILE = animation.ksanim     ; file name of new animation in “animations” folder
TIME = 0.5                  ; animation time
INPUT_AS_PROGRESS = 0       ; set to 1 to switch to that second input-as-progress mode
LOOP_WHILE_ACTIVE = 0       ; if set to 0, animation would go to 0% if not triggered, and 
                            ; to 100% otherwise; if set to 1, animation would play in 
                            ; a loop if triggered and stop otherwise
LOOP_KEEP_UNTIL_DONE = 1    ; only for “LOOP_WHILE_ACTIVE”: set to 1 to make animation 
                            ; go to 0% if stopped (like wipers would do, for example)
TICK_TOCK_MODE = 0          ; only for “LOOP_WHILE_ACTIVE”: loop as 0% → 100% → 0% instead 
                            ; of jumping from 100% to 0%
AFFECTS_INTERIOR_SHAPE = 0  ; force to update interior reflections mask if animation is 
                            ; playing (slower)
HOLD_STATE = 1              ; for hoods and such
BLEND_STATE = 0.3           ; smth for HOLD_STATE?
LUT = ...                   ; yes you can do here too

Default values are as listed above, so for minimum, you would only need INPUT and FILE. With INPUT_AS_PROGRESS, loop options won’t have any effect.

Features to add later

• Blending between animations (?).