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Started by kzar November 10, 2005 07:00 AM

2 comments, last by kzar 18 years, 5 months ago

kzar

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November 10, 2005 07:00 AM

Hi in my animation class I added a loop option so you can make an animation only play through once or carry on forever. But I would like to make it so if the animation only plays once at the end it is removed. I searched around a bit and I read that making class's "suicide" is bad practice for a few different reasons. So how could I do this? Thanks, David

Kimeli

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November 10, 2005 08:28 AM

mark your animation as "dead" (bool alive=false) and dont update/render/etc. dead animations. remove dead animations from animation list after update/render loop.

Skeleton_V@T

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November 10, 2005 08:34 AM

You can also use Function Pointers , this is more helpful when your object has some more other states which originally need if/switch statements.

V@T

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kzar

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November 10, 2005 10:30 AM

Cool thanks for the replys.