Stopped Mid-Animation. How?

[Christina Halpin]

I am playing a lot of animations quickly, many overlapping. When I shut down all the ones on my screen, my avatar was stopped mid-animation.

I spent an hour last night trying to CREATE that effect, and I appreciate God's fine sense of irony. But is there actually any way to recreate this on purpose?

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

Not in any controllable way, animations are played client-side, so what you observed was purely on your computer, somebody else watching would not necessarily see the same thing.

You could try playing around with Niran's pose maker in Black Dragon and see if there's any way in there of pausing or freezing an animation.

[elleevelyn]

On 11/11/2023 at 5:26 AM, Christina Halpin said:

I am playing a lot of animations quickly, many overlapping. When I shut down all the ones on my screen, my avatar was stopped mid-animation.

this can happen when scripts stop animations that they never started

most animation scripters these days know not to do this, but sometimes with older scripts this can happen

example of bad animation scripting

default
{
    touch_start (integer detected)
    {  
       
        llRequestPermissions(llDetectedKey(0), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
    }
    
    run_time_permissions (integer perm)
    {
        if (perm & PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION)
        {
            list anims = llGetAnimationList(llGetPermissionsKey());
            integer len = llGetListLength(anims);
            integer i;
            for ( ; i < len; ++i)
            {
                llStopAnimation(llList2Key(anims, i));         
            }
            llSleep(0.2);
            llStopAnimation("Stand");
            // to really mess things up
            // llStartAnimation( ...some random static pose ... );
            llSetTimerEvent(1.0);
        }
    }
    
    timer()
    {
        llRequestPermissions(llGetPermissionsKey(), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);      
    }
}

with the Linden viewer this script results in ruth breathing, head follow and the Linden ruth stand animations don't cycle (just get the first default ruth stand animation. Earlier versions of Linden viewer would not play anything on llStopAnimation("Stand") would get a static pose of the last animation frame playing in the state "Standing", some TPVs may still do this dunno)

note that any animation AO/HUD/etc will still attempt to start their own scripted animations, this script just attempts to stop them all

[Wulfie Reanimator]

If a bone is no longer animated by anything, it appears frozen in whatever position it was in previously.

There's also a long-standing bug where an object whose UUID is lower than your avatar will stop all animations instead of just the animation it tried to stop.