fall down, get up & brush off animation

does anyone know where i can get a gesture combining a falling down, getting up and then brushing off animations? something that can be used when someone bumps into me ... rather than orbiting them (winks)?

i've used SEARCH and looked at slx... but i can find nothing. i can find fainting and "death correct" gestures. but those aren't quite what i'm looking for.

Isn't that the default fall animation that LL gives our avatars?

yes it is

I have a "Faint and Stand Up" animation I purchased. Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but this one makes my AV do a slow swoon, then lays on the ground until I stop the animation. Then (what I like about it) is the AV pushes herself up very realistically, and ends with wiping the hands together.

If you (or anyone) is interested in it...shoot me an IM and will give the name of the creator (not in world atm).

The built-in animation is called "standup". I guess the built-in anims aren't available for use in gestures (?), but I have the .bvh file and could upload it at any priority, fade-in/-out timings, etc.

thanks all.

i have a faint and stand anim too, czari. but it's WAY too long and too dramatic.

just imagine someone bumping into you ... i just want to fall, stay on the ground for maybe 1 second, then get up and brush off.

thanks for the offer, qie, but i guess i'm looking for a gesture consisting of 3 animations.

Well, this is interesting: Apparently there really are 3 primitive built-in animations ("avatar_dead", "avatar_standup", and "avatar_brush"--preceded by a rotation of the avatar to the flat-on-face position--which seem to execute in sequence automatically when a script runs just the built-in "standup" animation. I tried uploading the primitives, and they look like they'd work, if only one could get the avatar to rotate somehow, but I don't see any way to do that in a gesture. So, I got the following to work pretty well:

I made a gesture that I called "/standup" that has no Steps, just a Trigger of "/standup" set to Replace with "/11standup", and the following script in any convenient attached object:

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llRequestPermissions(llGetOwner(), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
        llListen(11, "", llGetOwner(), "standup");
    }
    on_rez(integer start_param)
    {
        llResetScript();
    }
    listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
    {
        llStartAnimation("standup");
    }
}

(Note: I know this isn't the scripting forum--but this is barely a script. Anyway, the php tags only make the formatting work sensibly if one tries to Quote the message then cuts-and-pastes from there.)

Dunno if this exactly fits the application, but the movement looks pretty good to me.

You can download all the BVH files for standard avatar animations from this page:
http://secondlife.com/community/avatar.php

Modify them as needed for your own AO's and them import them back into SL. The one I think you are looking for is avatar_brush.bvh

Cheers!
~Maddy

I can save the L$10 upload fee: avatar_brush is one of the ones I uploaded. It indeed brushes off the standing avatar. And avatar_standup makes the avatar "stand up"--except "up" is horizontal, so it assumes the avatar has already done a face-plant somehow. (I had no idea it worked like this.)

There's no need to upload anything uunless you have edited it. You have already explained in your post above how to play the standard animation in SL via script. I was just pointing the op to where the actual BVH files could be downloaded in case they wanted to have a try at making their own.

~Maddy

thanks qie & madamg ... i think ... but i have no idea what you are both talking about since i am no scripter.

you seem to indicate that this is possible but i'm not following the rest.

I'll get in-world momentarily and send you a scripted prim and a gesture that combined will do what I think you have in mind. Unfortunately, the script in the prim is necessary to get the sequence of three built-in primitive animations to play--they don't seem to be available in the stock anims of the library, but luckily, just using the "standup" anim in a script somehow automagically invokes them. You don't have to keep the ugly plywood prim I'm sending, it just holds the script so you can test it; if you like it, you can hide the script in any mod-perm attachment.

Is this not because it follows the ground impact of falling some distance with the flailing arms?

Hi Egon, how's things?

which means you could put it in a pair of glasses you wear on your face, or a hat, as long as you can open contents in the object and copy the script to it.

Hobbit want a copy? It doesn't do the "falling" anim with the flailing arms, but it seems to do a momentary "dead", then "standup", then "brush"--all rotating the avatar appropriately for a face-plant. It's magic to me.

Yes please Qie, very kind

wow. thanks so much qie. you're too generous.

i'm at rl work, but i'll be in game tonight. ugly plywood, huh? maybe something i could wear on my head? haven't done THAT in a while. i wear enough attachments so i'm sure there is one i can put your script into. i can't wait to try it out!

and, hi bilbo. things are going well. i hope with you too. btw, i do miss the old neighborhood ... and the neighbors.

It sounds like Qie's prim is an independent re-creation of a fun toy I have...Collision Death.

CD is a wearable. Wear it and turn off your AO and any defenses like MystiTool's Movelock.

The next time some one bumps you, you fall down and a pool of blood seeps from under your cracked skull.

Combined with a heartfelt "argggghhhhhh....", this toy can be used as a visual aid to show newbies it's not nice to bump other people.

Animazoo has it im me in world for a landmark if you have not already found it.

cool lindal and maggie.

wow, i was just at animazoo last night buying a dance animation. i should have spent more time and looked around.

itsnear the Gestures animator, i think. i just got his blender hair flip, and will be goin back for his handbag poses and animations. he does awesome work!

maggie, i'm at animazoo in brightown. i don't see anything like collision death. i see the "blends" kiosque. but the only thing near is are the model poses.

is there more than 1 store?

oh ... and qie ... thank you so very much for the script. it's in an earring that i never remove. now if i can only be patient enough to use it before i tell anyone about it. hehe.

I'd like to add my thanks to Qie here too. Brilliant! thankyou

Hey Egon, mebbe we should play pedestrian chicken

next time i see you ... prepare to be run over.