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Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by seon, Sep 5, 2007.

  1. seon

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    I have 100 prefabs of an object with an animation on it that has a script with an update() that calls if (!animation.isPlaying) animation.Play(); to keep the animation looping... because the "loop" option on the animation controller doesn't loop.

    I need them all looping indefinitely until each is destroyed...

    Is there a more efficient way of doing this?
     
    seon, Sep 5, 2007
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  2. Joachim_Ante

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    Set the wrapmode to loop in the inspector.

    I am pretty sure this works correctly, if it doesn't it's most likely there is a script which is set to stop the animation for some reason.
     
    Joachim_Ante, Sep 5, 2007
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  3. seon

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    Well, funnily enough.. it didn't work before... but it is now... and we have worked out why.

    Exporting animation from LW using FBX is, well... sometimes great and sometimes flakey.

    For some reason the animation wouldn't loop, but when we re-exported from LW and re-imported, it now does loop using wrap mode.
     
    seon, Sep 6, 2007
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  4. bronxbomber92

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    FBX seems to be such a flakey format. Each modeler imports and exporters differently! It's terrible. I wish there was a true universal model format.. I guess FBX is the closest thing to it. Oh well :p
     
    bronxbomber92, Sep 6, 2007
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  5. seon

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    Yeah, we get totally different results out of Modo than we do out of LW... LW doesnt support multi UV in FBX... but has animation. Modo has teh multi-UV's but renames all UV... grrr! And often a geometry change will cause Modo to re-order UV! What a friggin pain!

    But on a more positive note... it's almost the weekend!
     
    seon, Sep 6, 2007
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