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<function name="GetAnimInfo" parent="Entity" type="classfunc">⤶ <description>⤶ Returns a table containing the number of frames, flags, name, and FPS of an entity's animation ID.⤶ ⤶ <note>Animation ID is not the same as sequence ID.</note>⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Shared</realm>⤶ <args>⤶ <arg name="animIndex" type="number">The animation ID to look up</arg>⤶ </args>⤶ <rets>⤶ <ret name="" type="table">Information about the animation, or nil if the index is out of bounds</ret>⤶ </rets>⤶ </function>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>A function that finds an entity sequence's corresponding animation and returns the animation info.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ function GetAnimInfoSequence( ent, seq )⤶ ⤶ if( !IsValid( ent ) ) then return nil end⤶ ⤶ local seqname = ent:GetSequenceName( seq )⤶ ⤶ if( seqname == "Unknown" ) then return nil end⤶ ⤶ local info = nil⤶ local done = ent:GetAnimInfo(0).label -- this is how we know when to stop⤶ local i = 1⤶ ⤶ -- We don't want to increment too high or we will run into errors or possibly crashes⤶ while(i &amp;lt; 1600) do -- arbitrary failsafe⤶ ⤶ info = ent:GetAnimInfo(i)⤶ ⤶ if(string.find(info.label, "@"..seqname) or string.find(info.label, "a_"..seqname)) then⤶ return info⤶ end⤶ ⤶ -- the first animation info is repeated when there are no animations left in the model⤶ if(info.label == done) then break end⤶ ⤶ i = i + 1⤶ ⤶ end⤶ ⤶ return nil⤶ ⤶ end⤶ </code>⤶ ⤶ </example>

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