Modding Help Idle Animations

Hello I am trying to make a sword with an idle animation, i can't seem to get this to work. Could somebody please tell me how to give a weapon an idle animation?

 

I'm thinking the only that will be possible is to make it an activeitem.

 

ok how do i do that?

 

Dig into the assets and reverse engineer an existing item.

There are no tutorials for this kind of thing, so we have to kinda guess based on what the devs do.

 

thats what I've been trying to do, But my Backkuppak does not contain every item in the game. Im trying to find the chainsaw file as that is an animated weapon but i cant find it.

 

Download nightly. It has everything thus far. Primarily the backer weapons. Most all have animations.

 

ok I'll try that thanks

 

When you unpack the assets, lookin /items/active/weapons/other. Those are the backer weapons. They will be the best guides for what you are looking to do. I'm not on !y PC right now, otherwise I'd just post a sample weapon for you.

 

.activeitem

Code:

{
  "itemName" : "energywhip",
  "level" : 6,
  "maxStack" : 1,
  "rarity" : "legendary",
  "description" : "Get cracking!",
  "shortdescription" : "Lucaine's Energy Whip",
  "tooltipKind" : "sword",
  "weaponType" : "Whip",
  "twoHanded" : true,
  "itemTags" : ["weapon"],

  "inventoryIcon" : "energywhip.png:idle",
  "animation" : "whip.animation",
  "animationParts" : {
  "weapon" : "energywhip.png",
  "weaponFullbright" : "energywhipfullbright.png"
  },
  "animationCustom" : {
  "lights" : { "glow" : {
  "active" : true,
  "position" : [0.75, 0.5],
  "color" : [40, 73, 117]
  }},
  "particleEmitters" : { "crack" : { "particles" : [ ]}},
  "sounds" : {
  "swing" : [ "/sfx/melee/energywhip_swing1.ogg", "/sfx/melee/energywhip_swing2.ogg", "/sfx/melee/energywhip_swing3.ogg" ],
  "crack" : [ "/sfx/melee/energywhip_impact1.ogg", "/sfx/melee/energywhip_impact2.ogg", "/sfx/melee/energywhip_impact3.ogg" ]
  }
  },
  "scripts" : [ "whip.lua" ],

  "animationScripts" : [
  "/items/active/effects/chain.lua"
  ],

  "altAbilitySource" : "/items/active/weapons/whip/altabilities/energyorb.altability",

  "primaryAbility" : {
  "scripts" : ["/items/active/weapons/whip/whipcrack.lua"],
  "class" : "WhipCrack",

  "fireTime" : 1.1,
  "chainDps" : 2.4,
  "crackDps" : 7.2,

  "damageConfig" : {
  "statusEffects" : [ ],
  "damageSourceKind" : "electric",
  "timeoutGroup" : "primary",
  "timeout" : 0.3
  },

  "projectileType" : "whipcrackelectric",
  "projectileConfig" : {},
  "stances" : {
  "idle" : {
  "armRotation" : -90,
  "weaponRotation" : 0,
  "weaponRotationCenter" : [0.0, 0.0],
  "weaponOffset" : [-1.3, 0.625],

  "allowRotate" : true,
  "allowFlip" : true
  },
  "windup" : {
  "duration" : 0.25,
  "armRotation" : 100,
  "weaponRotation" : 0,
  "weaponRotationCenter" : [0.0, 0.0],
  "weaponOffset" : [-1.3, 0.625],

  "allowRotate" : true,
  "allowFlip" : true
  },
  "extend" : {
  "duration" : 0.1,
  "armRotation" : 0,
  "weaponRotation" : -90,
  "weaponRotationCenter" : [0.0, 0.0],
  "weaponOffset" : [-1.3, 0.875],

  "allowRotate" : false,
  "allowFlip" : false
  },
  "fire" : {
  "duration" : 0.1,
  "armRotation" : 0,
  "weaponRotation" : -90,
  "weaponRotationCenter" : [0.0, 0.0],
  "weaponOffset" : [-1.3, 0.875],

  "allowRotate" : false,
  "allowFlip" : false
  }
  }
  },

  "chain" : {
  "startOffset" : [0.625, 0],
  "length" : [3, 12],
  "segmentImage" : "/items/active/weapons/whip/energybeam.png",
  "endSegmentImage" : "/items/active/weapons/whip/energybeamend.png",
  "segmentSize" : 0.375,
  "fullbright" : true
  },

  "builder" : "/items/buildscripts/buildwhip.lua"
}

.animation

Code:

{
  "animatedParts" : {
  "stateTypes" : {
  "attack" : {
  "default" : "idle",
  "states" : {
  "idle" : {},
  "windup" : {
  "frames" : 3,
  "cycle" : 0.25,
  "mode" : "end"
  },
  "extend" : {
  "frames" : 1,
  "cycle" : 0.01,
  "mode" : "end"
  },
  "fire" : {}
  }
  }
  },

  "parts" : {
  "weapon" : {
  "properties" : {
  "transformationGroups" : ["weapon"],
  "centered" : true,
  "zLevel" : 0
  },

  "partStates" : {
  "attack" : {
  "idle" : {
  "properties" : {
  "image" : "<partImage>:idle"
  }
  },
  "windup" : {
  "properties" : {
  "image" : "<partImage>:windup.<frame>"
  }
  },
  "extend" : {
  "properties" : {
  "image" : "<partImage>:extend.<frame>"
  }
  },
  "fire" : {
  "properties" : {
  "image" : "<partImage>:fire"
  }
  }
  }
  }
  },
  "weaponFullbright" : {
  "properties" : {
  "transformationGroups" : ["weapon"],
  "centered" : true,
  "fullbright" : true,
  "zLevel" : 1
  },

  "partStates" : {
  "attack" : {
  "idle" : {
  "properties" : {
  "image" : "<partImage>:idle"
  }
  },
  "windup" : {
  "properties" : {
  "image" : "<partImage>:windup.<frame>"
  }
  },
  "extend" : {
  "properties" : {
  "image" : "<partImage>:extend.<frame>"
  }
  },
  "fire" : {
  "properties" : {
  "image" : "<partImage>:fire"
  }
  }
  }
  }
  }
  }
  },

  "transformationGroups" : {
  "weapon" : {},
  "endpoint" : {}
  },

  "particleEmitters" : {
  "crack" : {
  "transformationGroups" : ["endpoint"],
  "particles" : []
  }
  },
  "sounds" : {
  "swing" : [ ],
  "crack" : [ ]
  }
}