I might be wrong, but my guess is that by not sending a message and instead calling directly the message associated method, you're leaving the client unaware that it should play that anim.
Though its been a while since I played with that. Are you using Alien swarm or the orange box ? On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:57 AM, m...@tobiasbaumann.net <m...@tobiasbaumann.net>wrote: > ** > Hi everyone, > > I've been trying to solve a very simple problem in the past days and I'm > hoping someone of you can help me. > > So I've created a new weapon based upon the Frag grenade code. Its > basically the same thus far with a few changes. So far it works as intended > except there is no reload animation on the player model even tough I'm > telling the game to play one. My character model has the reload animation > and it works when I try it in the modelviewer. However when I use this line > in the code: > > ToHL2MPPlayer(GetOwner())->DoAnimationEvent( PLAYERANIMEVENT_RELOAD ); > > Which is getting called in the reload function nothing happens. My first > guess was that maybe another animation cancels out this animation so I > tried to see whats going on by using anim_showstate in the console and I > noticed that only the server is doing a layered animation of the reload > animation. Which is correct I'm assuming because we also want > walking/crouching happening while reloading. Now here's my question: > > Why is the animation only executed in the server? > Am I missing some reference or did I forgot a sequence inside the the qc > file? (I've got my acttable_t setup correctly.) > > I've looked at other weapons code to see how they trigger the reload > animation and its the same line of code. What am I missing? Is there some > other place in the code that handles reloading depending on what weapon the > player has equipped? I'm asking because I noticed the default frag grenade > doesn't have a reload animation as well. > > Viewmodel animations are working correctly tough. > > Thank you for any help on this. > > Best regards, > Tobias > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > >
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