What is the root animation called?

Scripting Issues
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If we have an actor called this way:

    self.character = Actor(path[0]+'/models/ball.bam', {
                    'walk': path[0]+'/models/bouncing ball.bam',
                    'jump': path[0]+'/models/jumping ball.bam'
                })

To call walk animation we do:

   self.character.loop('walk')

But how do we get back to the initial state, called ‘models/ball.bam’ in this case?

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Hi jfabdo,

You should be able to call stop() on your Actor to stop the looping animation.

self.character.stop()

Here’s a helpful page from the manual that can provide some more information.
https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/programming/models-and-actors/actor-animations#basic-animation-playing

Cheers,
H3LLB0Y.

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However, that won’t return the actor to the base, pre-animation pose (e.g. a base “T-pose”).

As to returning to that pose, I don’t believe that Actor has a “base animation”; what it rather has is just the state of not having an animation.

Reaching that state once an animation has been played, however, is something that I don’t know how to do, offhand. :/

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@Thaumaturge That’s true, my mistake. Good catch on your part :slight_smile: I misunderstood the post…

I’ve done a bit of digging, and found some code that seems to do the trick.
Rather than calling self.character.stop() use the following code.

    animControls = self.character.getAnimControls()
    for animControl in animControls:
        animControl.getPart().clearControlEffects()

Actor.getAnimControls on the linked page just below the top. (Didn’t have a Permalink for some reason…)
https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/reference/direct.actor.Actor#direct.actor.Actor.Actor.getAnimControlDict

If you stop the animation prior, then passing animName=True to the self.character.getAnimControls() call will return ALL the animation controls so you can clear the effects from all.

Hope this can be of some use to you @jfabdo!

Cheers,
H3LLB0Y.

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