Hello, it's been a long time since I visited this section let alone asking a question. But as I delve into new modding areas I come across new problems and I need new info.

Right now I'm trying to understand/decode how the UI handles nifs (like the magic effect icon). I looked at the nif in question (Health_Bar01.nif) and found the NiControllerSequence and NiControllerManager. After alot of reading I have a decent understanding of how they work. But....as we all know the speed at which the nif is 'animated' (maybe sequenced is a better word) isn't always the same, depending on how long the magic effect will last. In the nif itself the length of the animation/sequence is 1.333 seconds, well actually 3.333 but it reaches the end of the sequence at 1.333, so the game must have code to change the duration/spread of the sequence.

I began looking for an 'easy' way to change or scale the entirety of the NiControllerSequence. I say 'easy' because, from what I understand, the alternative is to change each and every keydata in the associated NiFloatInterpolator. I tried changing the frequency and start/stop time but none of them seemed to affect the global 'speed' of the animation sequence. Atleast, not while viewing in NifSkope.

So my question would be, is there a way to either slow down or speed up a animation sequence?

-kyoma

hey, what i did if i recall correctly and i just tested this with the newest version of nifskope.. no idea..perhaps an older version doesn't update properly;

for example frequency was set at 1 i set it to 3
for example stoptime was set at 1 i set it to 3 as well.

the result is a quicker, although quite epileptic (perhaps dependant on animation type) animation with a quicker speed.

i hope this helps. Cheers.

(Now i hope i understood you properly though )

Already tried that without any luck. Maybe it needs something else in order to work with a NiControllerSequence/NiFlipController?

The game does not scale these anims it has the ability to Frame Buffer all of the animated UI elements which allows the game to go back and forth through the animation as needed -> the compass is a good example of this, and the reason that there is 2 seconds of anim at the exact same Texture Index is so that in-game enemies health always seems full until you get them to around 60% -> if you alter the anim so that it ends at 1.3333 the second to last key the game will now correctly represent EVERY point of health lost on enemies -> I have already done this to my own game several years ago !!! as it drove me nuts that the enemies health did not seem to update health until they were almost half dead -> Another Mod I never shared because the subject never came up that this annoyed anyone else.

Not sure what exactly your trying to do but to easily alter a sequences timescale you can alter its Frequency Setting -> but the game is not always happy when people do that, odd things occur with the objects with off 1.0 frequencies at times nothing that will crash the game just at times the anim will not work or play at normal speed and a few others.

If your trying to do something Dynamic like setting its timescale based on some secondary factor I seriously doubt even OBSE will find a way to do that although we never know, they may.

Thanks for the info. Basically I'm trying to find out how to use custom nif-elements in the UI. I know the game has code to control all of the animated elements but I was wondering what that code did exactly. In what way it interacts with the nif or which setting it might be changing on-the-fly. Depending on where and how it is coded I might be able to access/use it from within my OBSE plugin. I'm busy looking in IDA-Pro for the code that handles this UI <-> Nif interaction but without any idea as to how the game might handle it I am kinda searching in the dark.

Anyways, which exact Frequency setting would I need to change? There are multiple ones in the nif and I tried changing them but the lenght of the sequence always remained the same. Atleast, in NifSkope.

Also, you mentioned the compass, actually the compass isn't animated, it's just an image which gets moved around.

-kyoma

The Sequence frequency -> also do not alter the anim itself making the anim play faster or slower still requires that the anim be set to play normally basically do not do as was suggested earlier in this thread and set its end time to match the frequency nor set its TextKeys to match as doing that will screw up how its played.



Yeah, just looked at the files again I must have gotten Ob mixed up with a different game I could have sworn that Ob's Compass was a .nif that used a Texture Transform to move the Texture around -> although the Arrow.nif might be a good place to look as it does basically the same thing rotates the players map arrow, probably can not help much past that as I have not myself looked further into this as the only thing I wanted to change was the enemies delayed health update behavior.