SSE Script to make an item continuously cycle through its animations

[cumbrianlad]

Don't go out of your way to answer this question, though it would be nice to get it working the way I set out below!

 

I've found a much simpler arrangement that just involves my furniture, recipes and standard dwemer pipe pistons... it still looks pretty cool!

 

Hi.

 

Basically, I've cobbled together a Dwemer workbench that allows the player to craft an ingredient (Crushed Brazing Crystal) if they have a whole crystal in their inventory. That bit works fine.

 

The problem lies in the workbench itself.

 

I have a dwemer piston trap positioned so that when it fires it descends into a bowl below to give the idea that the player puts the crystal in the bowl and the trap crushes it.

 

What I'd like is for the player to walk into a trigger box and the piston to start animating up and down, pausing at the end of each stroke, then stop its animations when the player leaves the trigger.

 

I know the string properties for the animations and events so that I could use PlayAnimationAndwait, followed by Utility.Wait(##) for the pause, but I haven't a clue how to get the thing to work.

 

I tried using two events OnTriggerEnter and OnTriggerleave and 3 states as below. basically this won't compile, throwing a wobbler at LoopingObject.PlayAnimationAndWait with these errors...

 

Starting 1 compile threads for 1 files...

Compiling "MBEJtoggleCrusherScript"...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\Source\Scripts\temp\MBEJtoggleCrusherScript.psc(20,0): no viable alternative at input 'LoopingObject'

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\Source\Scripts\temp\MBEJtoggleCrusherScript.psc(20,13): mismatched input '.' expecting LPAREN

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\Source\Scripts\temp\MBEJtoggleCrusherScript.psc(0,0): error while attempting to read script MBEJtoggleCrusherScript: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

No output generated for MBEJtoggleCrusherScript, compilation failed.

 

So my script's rubbish but that's to be expected: I've no idea how to use states. At least it might give you an idea of what I'm trying to do.

 

Scriptname MBEJtoggleCrusherScript extends ObjectReference

 

ObjectReference property LoopingObject auto

String Property FireAnim="Up" auto

String Property FireEvent="TransUp" auto

String Property ResetAnim="Down" auto

String Property ResetEvent="TransDown" auto

 

 

Event OnTriggerEnter(ObjectReference akActionRef)

GoToState("Loop1")

EndEvent

 

Event OnTriggerLeave(ObjectReference akActionRef)

GoToState("LoopEnd")

EndEvent

 

State Loop1

 

LoopingObject.PlayAnimationAndWait(FireAnim,FireEvent)

Utility.Wait(2.0)

GoToState("Loop2")

 

EndState

 

State Loop2

 

LoopingObject.PlayAnimationAndWait(ResetAnim,ResetEvent)

Utility.Wait(2.0)

GoToState("Loop1")

 

EndState

 

State LoopEnd

;Do Nothing

EndState

[IsharaMeradin]

Within your states you do not have any events to trigger your code to run. Thus when papyrus is trying to compile it sees "LoopingObject" and thinks it should be a function rather than an ObjectReference property. Try putting the code within the OnBeginState event.

 

Example:

State Loop2
  Event OnBeginState()
    LoopingObject.PlayAnimationAndWait(ResetAnim,ResetEvent)
    UtilityWait(2.0)
    GoToState("Loop1")
  EndEvent
EndState

[cumbrianlad]

IsharaMeradin, your a guru!

 

I'll give that a go.