Lol, another question...

How would i got about using llGetAnimation to detect a certain anim playing? I really just want to look for one anim rather then a whole list of anims that are going on with the av like you would with llGetAnimationList. I was reading and it said that llGetAnimation "Returns the current basic animation state for avatar id.". How would i go about this to change the defalut sl crouching walk with a custom one? lol, I really didn't understand the wiki page about it. I'm guessing when blah state happens then i can stop the anim for it and use custom but would that mess up the state? lol, I'm confused.

lol, Periodically check if llGetAnimation returns "CrouchWalking". lol, If so play your custom animation. lol, when llGetAnimation no longer returns "CrouchWalking", stop your custom animation.

lol

Hey I didn't say lol that much, lol.

Ok I'll look into it more but I'm still not sure how I would go about do it. Is it something like, if (llGetAnitmation() == CrouchWalking) or does it return a number?

It returns a string, so you want "CrouchWalking" in double quotes.

Cool. Ok, thanks. I'll try it out.

**EDIT**
Sweet it works, this should free up some mem on the script also. Thanks again for the help!

By the way, back on some related thread, I mumbled something about the relative speeds of llGetAnimation() vs llGetAgentInfo(). When I was reminded (thanks!) that the string return value of llGetAnimation was gonna require a string compare vs a bitfield test for llGetAgentInfo, Qie's shaggy lil head got a thumpin'. But since I was reminded I wanted to run some other LSL timing tests, I went ahead and started testing these differences.

Surprisingly, string compare doesn't seem to be all that expensive--though of course the bitwise comparisons win. The exact results depend on where character differences occur in the string, and how many string compares you have to do in switch-style if/else blocks, etc., but for AO purposes the differences seem pretty negligible, assuming the order of the conditionals reflects the frequency of occurrence.

But before I got around to exhaustive testing of factors that might affect that result, I was totally distracted by a very strange and robust result that I can't explain at all: If llGetAgentInfo() is called and nothing is done with the result (not even part of an assignment statement) *and* the object containing the script is not attached, it is very slow... at least 6 times as slow as llGetAnimation() under the same conditions. However, if the object is attached and/or the result is used in a simple assignment statement, this difference goes away, and both calls are about the same speed as llGetAnimation is under the anomalous condition.

Ummm... "go figure."