Island Anims - Care and feeding – Talk

The problem - what problem?

One wrinkle remains however with Island Anims. They cannot be inside a pbo. Neither their own, nor any other. This then prevents relative references being made to them. They must be hard wired to a known folder.

I think this is not true. I see no reason for this. Opening Island Anim files is done the same way as any other file in OFP and it really should use pbo as appropriate.

--Suma 09:32, 17 July 2006 (CEST)

relative path to cutscene

haven't looked at this issue for some time now, but certainly intend to with ArmA

cutscenes[]={"..\ADDONS\doe1_anim\intro"};

the ..\

is the problem. It pulls pack to the root directory from (I dont' know where) and as such a hardwired folder is required. (you cant use an \addon(.pbo), nor, for that matter ..\addon(.pbo)

it can't find the addon(.pbo) as such.

if wrong, i'm wrong, but i am not aware of ANY user created island that has successfully attached an anim other than a hardwired folder (conventionally \Addons\anim\blah)

Mods (as opposed to addons) get round this by having their own \<Mods>\ directory, but they too, must hardwire the anim into (by convention) \<Mods\Addons\blah

--ook? 15:08, 17 July 2006 (CEST)

I see no need for anything complicated here. I would try something along lines of cutscenes[]={"doe1_anim\intro"}; --Suma 15:40, 17 July 2006 (CEST)

Haha, if that is possible, it would be an easy solution for a "problem" we had as we were "copying" from BI's configs...

--Raedor 15:46, 17 July 2006 (CEST)

cutscenes[]={"doe1_anim\intro"};

never works. period. Been there, dun that. As for overly complicated, after five years 'out there', someone by now *would* have done just this (if it worked) considering the upwards of 50 very very good third party islands 'out there'. These people aint dumb, and their readme's always contain the corrollory to place the anim in \addons. Exception as I keep saying is when an entire mods addon is employed, but *even* then, it's hardwired it's just hidden from the user)

--ook? 16:02, 17 July 2006 (CEST)