Furniture and animations, How they work Options

[ghastley]

I'm at the point in The Diablo mod where I need to put Greta in a Pillory where she can be rescued. I can't use the shackles for this as they go against a wall, and her developing wings are either hidden, or clip through the wall behind her. Fortunately, the work has already been done, and I just have to extract the one piece from a huge animation resource pack.

The method of creating new furniture items, and connecting up the entry/loop/exit animations is a topic that's worth documenting, as I haven't found a decent one anywhere else. This thread will hold my notes as I find out all about it.

The "sit" animation isn't a standard one, so a mod using it will need FNIS to install the extra behaviour data and animations. At least that's become a standard, and users are fairly familiar with the process.

I may also include Idle Markers, which work in a similar fashion, but without a static item, and explain how Animation Objects work. These are items that appear only when the animation is performed, such as musical instruments, or the broom. Lots of things will be common between all these.

[ghastley]

Well, I thought I had it all working nicely. There's a "Succubus Factory" in the last part of the dungeon I'm building where the mad scientist failed necromancer is working Clavicus Vile's evil process of turning the victims into succubi. Part of that is grafting on the wings, which requires restraint, at most stages. I have one woman hanging by her wrists as her wing sprout, and a few succubi in stocks and pillories being punished for not learning their lessons. All of those work properly, with the NPC aligning correctly with the apparatus.

The one that's not working is the table. She's supposed to be bent over the edge of the table, with her ankles tied to the legs, and her wrists bound across to the other side. However, she consistently ends up about a foot into the top, instead of at the edge. Testing another copy with the player gets the right result, but the linked object method of setting the pose fails.

I have more work to do before I start telling others how to do this.