Quake frame/animation speed

[JasonX]

How can we tweak this value? Right now my animations play perfectly in QME, but in game they're too slow.

[jim]

I used
self.nextthink = time + 0.05;
to make it two times faster. 0.1 would be the normal rate. I don't know how it works with player or player weapons. I've only used it in monster animation.

[mankrip]

Reconfigure QME.

In qME 3.0, go to Options -> Edit in the menu, and then select the Frame Editor tab and set the Target Framerate to 10 fps.

In QME 3.1, go to View -> Preferences in the menu, select the Frame Editor tab, and then set the Target framerate to 10 and the Playback framerate to 10.

[Sajt]

Addendum to mk: I think qME for some idiotic reason defaults to 20 fps playback. It's stupid because Quake and Quake 2 use 10 fps. So what mk said will "fix" qME to play back at 10 fps, as it would appear in Quake. But it will not affect the exported model. You have to change the QC as jim suggested to speed up playback in game.

[jim]

I've also made a little function to make it simpler to type all the nextthink stuff.. as I also wanted some randomness to it.

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// the function:
void(float ft, float rt) A_Frametimer =
{
   local float t;
   t = ft - random() * rt;
   if(t < 0.01)
      t = 0.01; // so it's not too fast, zero or negative
   self.nextthink = time + t;
};

// example code:
void() spikeclaw_idle_01 = [$spikeclaw_idle_01, spikeclaw_idle_02] { ai_stand(); A_Frametimer(0.1, 0.05); };