Is there any way to find out the length of an SL animation?

[Estelle Pienaar]

I am planning to script an animation overrider. It would be great to let each animation play exactly as long as it is and not interrupt them after an x amount of time. However I cannot find any way to find out how long an animation is. Neither by script nor by any other means. That is certainly a big oversight by the Lab and the information certainly is available with the saved animation on the servers, but it does not get visible to the users. Or is there a way to make it visible?

[Estelle Pienaar]

Ok, I found this and it answers the question negatively. I really think that ending an animation while it is playing is ugly and makes the Second Life experience worse. But there is nothing that can be done.

 

[Qie Niangao]

Yeah, that thread was from a couple years ago. As shown above, there's now a way to see more info about a playing animation in modern viewers. (That's the Linden PBR viewer, but the feature isn't that new so it's probably in most viewers currently used.)

There's often talk of figuring out a way to inform the sim about these details too, but I suspect that will await broader changes to animation.

[Estelle Pienaar]

On 2/11/2024 at 1:55 PM, Qie Niangao said:

Yeah, that thread was from a couple years ago. As shown above, there's now a way to see more info about a playing animation in modern viewers. (That's the Linden PBR viewer, but the feature isn't that new so it's probably in most viewers currently used.)

There's often talk of figuring out a way to inform the sim about these details too, but I suspect that will await broader changes to animation.

Thank you!