Garry's Mod Wiki

Home / Animation Layer​s (BaseAnimatingOverlay)

Animation Layer​s (BaseAnimatingOverlay)

Entities based on BaseAnimatingOverlay are capable of layering animations.

NextBots, most NPCs and Players are BaseAnimatingOverlay entities.

Only Scripted Entities of the anim type are BaseAnimatingOverlay.

Players follow a different layer implementation. Layers for players aren't automatically networked. The layer functions special to Player entity must be used rather than Entity functions to add the layer. The call must be networked; for SERVER to update the hitboxes properly and for CLIENT for the animation to be seen. For other entity types, added layers automatically get networked.

Playing gestures/creating new layers on NextBots may not work correctly unless done in the NEXTBOT:BehaveUpdate hook.

The following functions can only be used on BaseAnimatingOverlay entities:

Example

Example usage of layers on a anim type SENT.

AddCSLuaFile() DEFINE_BASECLASS( "base_gmodentity" ) ENT.PrintName = "Example Animated Overlay" ENT.AutomaticFrameAdvance = true function ENT:Initialize() if ( SERVER ) then -- Basic set up - a model with animations and physics mode so it doesn't fall over for demonstration self:SetModel( "models/alyx.mdl" ) self:PhysicsInit( SOLID_OBB ) self:ResetSequence( "walk_all" ) -- Base sequence, walking self:SetPoseParameter( "move_yaw", 90 ) -- Affects how the base sequence looks -- Overlayed sequence on top of base animation, move the head -- false at the end to not kill the animation after it plays once. self.LayerID = self:AddGestureSequence( self:LookupSequence( "a_bg_lookupright" ), false ) self:SetLayerLooping( self.LayerID, true ) -- Loop the layer end end function ENT:Think() if ( SERVER ) then -- Do any logic with layers here, play them, stop them, etc. -- Make sure the animation is smooth self:NextThink( CurTime() ) return true end end

Account Management

Special Pages

Wiki List