Hi,

I have a script that allows the player to perform a killmove on NPCs who are playing the bleedingOut animation. All the player has to do is activate the NPC who is bleeding out.

I noticed that my script works fine with NPCs who enter the bleedingOut animation as a result of the vanilla game telling them so (which can occur when their health is below 10%). However, if I force an NPC to play the bleedingOut animation by using:

Debug.SendAnimationEvent(Target, "bleedOutStart")

then my script doesn't work.

The script detects whether the NPC is playing the bleedOut animation by checking:

Event OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef)	 	akActionRef = PlayerRef	If(!Target.IsBleedingOut() || isNPC == 0)		return	Else                  ;code        EndIfEndEvent

So my understanding is that, for some reason, sending the relevant animation event is not enough for IsBleedingOut() to become true (which seems strange).

The only difference between the vanilla bleedingOut and the one resulting from the AnimationEvent is, as far as I know, that during the former the affected NPC recovers HP. Maybe that's the reason why it doesn't work?

I know the question is very specific but if anybody has any input/idea on how to make my script reconigze forced bleedouts, that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

tinyLamp, IsBleedingOut() is almost certainly a "wrapper" function that just calls GetAnimationVariableBool("IsBleedingOut") and checks if it returns true. I'm assuming the game code sets that behavior variable when it sends the event "bleedOutStart" to the actors behavior graph. So if you are sending any animation events to an actor you should set the relevant behavior variables or you will experience oddities like this.

Basically, what I am saying is you should do this:

SomeEvent()     if Debug.SendAnimationEvent(ActorRef, "bleedOutStart")        RegisterForAnimationEvent(ActorRef, "bleedOut_TransOutEnd")  ;We need to listen for bleedoutexit and ragdoll animation events to reset the variable to false...        RegisterForAnimationEvent(ActorRef, "RemoveCharacterControllerFromWorld")        ActorRef.SetAnimationVariableBool("IsBleedingOut", True)    endIfEndEventEvent OnAnimationEvent(ObjectReference akSource, string asEventName)    if akSource == ActorRef        if asEventName == bleedOut_TransOutEnd || asEventName == RemoveCharacterControllerFromWorld            ActorRef.SetAnimationVariableBool("IsBleedingOut", False)            UnregisterForAnimationEvent(ActorRef, "bleedOut_TransOutEnd")            UnregisterForAnimationEvent(ActorRef, "RemoveCharacterControllerFromWorld")        endIf    endIfEndEvent  

That should fix your problem but there are other animation variables that record the actor's current state that you should probably change too. This is because the actor's AI code sends animation events but also sets animation variables because animation variables are used by the game to determine an actor's state and they are used in Havok behavior to condition transitions and change Havok class parameters at run-time.

Check my signature if you want to find out more about Havok Behavior, animation events and animation/behavior variables (they are the same thing).

@smkViper, thanks for including these functions in Papyrus. I have been able to access my custom animation variables and listen for my custom animation events as a result.