<function name="SetSequence" parent="Entity" type="classfunc"> <description> Sets the entity's model sequence. If the specified sequence is already active, the animation will not be restarted. See <page>Entity:ResetSequence</page> for a function that restarts the animation even if it is already playing. In some cases you want to run <page>Entity:ResetSequenceInfo</page> to make this function run. <note>This will not work properly if called directly after calling <page>Entity:SetModel</page>. Consider waiting until the next Tick.</note>⤶ ⤶ <note>Will not work on players due to the animations being reset every frame by the base gamemode animation system in <page>GM:CalcMainActivity</page>. For Players, use in <page>GM:UpdateAnimation</page> instead.</note>⤶ <note>This will not work properly if called directly after calling <page>Entity:SetModel</page>. Consider waiting until the next Tick.⤶ ⤶ Will not work on players due to the animations being reset every frame by the base gamemode animation system. See <page>GM:CalcMainActivity</page>.⤶ ⤶ For custom scripted entities you will want to apply example from <page>ENTITY:Think</page> to make animations work.</note>⤶ </description> <realm>Shared</realm> <args> <arg name="sequenceId" type="number">The sequence to play. Also accepts strings. <note>If set to a string, the function will automatically call <page>Entity:LookupSequence</page> to retrieve the sequence ID as a number.</note></arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>Set the entity to play the "idle" sequence.</description> <code>self:SetSequence( "idle" )</code> </example> <example> <description>Set the entity to play the first sequence defined on the model (usually idle).</description> <code>self:SetSequence( 0 )</code> </example>