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Hello -

I wrote this script to trigger two different animations when a value is changed via datalinq.

dim Ani1Out, Ani1In as xpSceneDirector

scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("Item1Out", Ani1Out)
scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("Item1In", Ani1In)

if self.text = "1" then
Ani1In.playrange(0, Ani1In.duration)

else if self.text = "2" then
Ani1Out.playrange(0, Ani1Out.duration)
end if

The Item1Out plays when the value is changed away from 2 not changed to 2. IE. if I go from 1 to 2 nothing plays but if I go from 2 to 1 Ani1Out = Item1out plays. Can someone explain why its not playing when the value changes to 2?

Thanks!

Forgot to add - this script is on 'OnSetText'
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Remove the "self." part.. It should just be "text". "text" represents the new text ABOUT to be set onto the text object, but it hasn't actually be set onto the object yet.
By putting "self.text" you are actually checking what the old value of the text object had.

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@bford That makes sense, never knew that. I'm still having the same issue though. Is there something else that could be hanging it up?
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Share a dropbox or google drive link to your scene and we can look at it for you.
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When i input 2 it plays the correct scene director now. When i input 1, it only works when the scene first comes online.
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Here is a link to the project. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RuOTWW14brqQMskQkBYJLD-iC376-moS
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Found the issue. Since those two scene directors are keyframing the same objects once they hit their end, they actually continue updating the object to be in the spot determined by the last keyframe. To avoid this, you can either add an event to the end of each of those scene directors. The event should be set to "STOP" and turn on the "relative" checkbox so it doesnt jump back to frame 0. The stop will stop the scene director from controlling that object.

Or easier, from script; just set the autostop property on the scene director before calling playrange.. Like this:


dim Ani1Out, Ani1In as xpSceneDirector

scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("Item1Out", Ani1Out)
scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("Item1In", Ani1In)

if text = "3" then
Ani1In.Autostop=true
Ani1In.playrange (0, Ani1In.duration)

else if text = "2" then
Ani1Out.Autostop=true
Ani1Out.playrange (0, Ani1Out.duration)
end if
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Thanks - that helps me understand the conflict happening. Thanks!
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