spawning an entity during animation of another entity

[Seven]

Hello,

I need your help with my current problem.

As you know, in Mission Pack 2, there are the phantom swords.
What I want to do is call the knights death animation during the phantom sword death animation.

To be more specific:
After the swords 2nd frame death animation, I want to spawn in the knight´s death animation.

My problem so far:
When I call “knight_die ();” inside the 2nd frame of the sword, the sword will vanish and only the knight death animation is visable:

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void()	sword_die1	=[	$death1,	sword_die2	] {};
void()	sword_die2	=[	$death2,	sword_die3	] {
knight_die ();};
void()  sword_die3  =[  $death3,    sword_die4  ]
    {self.solid = SOLID_NOT;};
void()	sword_die4	=[	$death4,	sword_die5	] {};
...

I guess it is, because they both are on the same origin/position ? (so they disturb each other ?)
Make the knights call during the 4th sword frame does the same (so the "solid_not") doesnt help.


I tried to call both animations at the same time:
knight_die ();
sword_die ();

That will result in both models become almost transparent (barely visable).

What is the trick to spawn an entity/animation while another entities animation is still ongoing ?

Thank you very much for your help.

Kind regards,
Seven

[Nahuel]

you need spawn a new entity

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void() Becomedeathknight =
{
local	entity deathknight;
	deathknight = spawn();
deathknight.origin = self.origin;
deathknight.movetype = MOVETYPE_TOSS;// 
   deathknight.velocity = '0 0 0';
   deathknight.touch = SUB_Null;
   setmodel (deathknight, "progs/knight.mdl");
deathknight.nextthink = time + 0.1;
  deathknight.think = knight_die1;

};

you can call this function where you want!

[Nahuel]

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void()   sword_die1   =[   $death1,   sword_die2   ] {};
void()   sword_die2   =[   $death2,   sword_die3   ] {
Becomedeathknight ();};
void()  sword_die3  =[  $death3,    sword_die4  ]
    {self.solid = SOLID_NOT;};
void()   sword_die4   =[   $death4,   sword_die5   ] {};
...

I think it will work (not tested)

[Seven]

Hello Nahuel,

Thank you very much for your fast answer.
I will try it this evening.

You are a very big help for my tiny project.
Your tuto with the ".float alpha;" and the fading animation looks very nice for the knight spawn.

I will try to get it running together.

My only concern is, that the spawned knight will be stack ontop of the sword, cause they have the same origin and the knight comes after the sword.

Thank you again !
Seven

[ooppee]

They don't stack. It actually looks pretty good.
If you are worried about them stacking due to the corpses going solid (gibbable) - that shouldn't be a issue as the 2 corpses - sword and knight - only one should be able to be gibbed. The Knight - the sword shouldn't gib.