Help please *looping a dance

Hi. can anyone tell me how to take dance moves and put them together to make a complete dance with out having to do each pose with a pause between? thank you anyone out there

Im not positive, but i beleive the lil skip between (is Lag)
This is my theory :
I do beleive that when people make dancing Animations.. they do it all in 1, so there are no lag skips..
Other than that, im not sure ur problem is enabled to being fixed...=(

So Gestures with multiple animations and waits pause inbetween? It may be possible to set up a small-period timer to test for when one animation finishes and immediately start the other. Or you could use one script to time the length of each animation and then explicitly configure each animation to start just a little before the previous one should end....

Normally that little skip is whilst your client loads the animation data.

Try it with a small number of dances (say 3) in a loop in a quiet place, and you usually see that there's a skip the first time each loads, but the next time you go back around the dances load and play straight away. That's not the same as blending smoothly of course, depends on the dances.

If that appears to solve your problems there's not a "fix" sadly. You can try increasing your cache size, but a typical club has enough dances, textures etc. and a typical dance ball/bracelet etc. enough anims, that you'll probably have to reload it each time.

Unlike llPreloadSound there isn't a way to preload anims either.

i understand what you are saying, i was wondering how to put themoves together into a loop, so i can click one thing and it does a few in a row

Here's something that I did one afternoon for giggles... there might be a minor amount of kruft in it, but you should be able to figure it out.

vector position = <0.0, 0.0, 0.75>;
string animation = "impatient";
string endAnim = "sit_ground";

list animations = ["express_afraid","impatient","stretch","impatient","angry_tantrum","angry_tantrum"];
integer current = 0;
integer max;

integer ndGetAnimationState()
{
    list ae = llGetAnimationList(llAvatarOnSitTarget());
    return llGetListLength(ae);
}

ndStartAnimation()
{
    llStopAnimation("sit");
    current = 0;
    ndPlayAnimation();
    llSetTimerEvent(1.0);
}

ndPlayAnimation()
{
    animation = llList2String(animations,current);
    current++;
    if (current >= max)
    {
        ndStopAnimation();
        animation = endAnim;
        llStartAnimation(animation);
    }
    else
    {
        llStartAnimation(animation);
    }
}

ndStopAnimation()
{
    llSetTimerEvent(0.0);
    llStopAnimation(animation);
}

default
{
    state_entry() 
    {
        llSitTarget(position, ZERO_ROTATION);
        max = llGetListLength(animations);
        current = 0;
    }
    
    changed(integer change) 
    { 
        if (change & CHANGED_LINK) 
        {
            if (llAvatarOnSitTarget() != NULL_KEY) 
            { 
                llRequestPermissions(llAvatarOnSitTarget(), PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
            }
            else
            {
                integer perm = llGetPermissions();
                if (perm & PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION)
                    ndStopAnimation();
            }
        }
    }
    
    run_time_permissions(integer perm)
    {
        if (perm & PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION)
            ndStartAnimation();            
    }
    
    timer()
    {
        if (ndGetAnimationState()==0)
            ndPlayAnimation();            
    }
}