[x3d-public] Limit to # of chained sensors?

[John Carlson]

This appears to be of more general interest, so I am forwarding to others.

I am trying dead simple animation chaining, with one time sensor chaining
into another...nothing really complex yet, though I've tried
ScalarInterpolators, BooleanSequencers, event utilities, etc.

Even simpler would be setting startTime and stopTime directly in the
TimeSensors.  Should I do that?

Is this the right approach, or should I attempt something more difficult
with event utilities that people keep talking about?

Browsers of interest: FreeWRL, view3dscene, X_ITE all do 4-5 animations,
not the whole cycle.  Is there a limit in the standard? That would be
likely?

There are no loops yet, so only 1 TimeSensor should be running once you
activate the Everything_Touch TouchSensor.

Thanks!

John

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 7:00 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michalis, Joe,
>
> Is there a limit to the number of chained animations in view3dscene?, say
> I have 11 TimeSensors with 11 animations, running one after the other? I'm
> only seeing 4-5 active at a time.  This is important, because I have 4
> characters.
>
> I've been messing with the Animations panel, to see what's possible.
>
> I'm guessing I should have a single TimeSensor, that sends to a
> ScalarInterpolator, but this is dead simple animation. It looks like only
> 4-5 can be active at a time. Is there a better architecture I can use?
>

> Here's the essentials:
>
> $ cat takes.Lily.t*
> DEF Lily_Stand010Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 2.6999999999999997 loop
> FALSE enabled TRUE startTime 1 } # 2.6999999999999997 - 0
> DEF Lily_Stand011Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 0.6000000000000001 loop
> FALSE enabled TRUE } # 3.3 - 2.6999999999999997
> DEF Lily_Stand012Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 3.45 loop FALSE enabled
> TRUE } # 6.75 - 3.3
> DEF Lily_Run013Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 6.300000000000001 loop
> FALSE enabled TRUE } # 13.05 - 6.75
> DEF Lily_Turn014Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 3.4499999999999993 loop
> FALSE enabled TRUE } # 16.5 - 13.05
> DEF Lily_Walk015Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 2.3999999999999986 loop
> FALSE enabled TRUE } # 18.9 - 16.5
> DEF Lily_Walk016Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 3 loop FALSE enabled TRUE
> } # 21.9 - 18.9
> DEF Lily_Skip017Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 3.6000000000000014 loop
> FALSE enabled TRUE } # 25.5 - 21.9
> DEF Lily_Stand018Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 1.5 loop FALSE enabled
> TRUE } # 27 - 25.5
> DEF Lily_Stand019Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 3 loop FALSE enabled
> TRUE } # 30 - 27
> DEF Lily_Stand0110Timer TimeSensor { cycleInterval 0 loop FALSE enabled
> TRUE } # 0 - 30
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Stand010Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Stand011Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Stand012Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Run013Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Turn014Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Walk015Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Walk016Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Skip017Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Stand018Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Stand019Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Everything_Touch.touchTime TO Lily_Stand0110Timer .stopTime
> ROUTE Lily_Stand010Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Stand011Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Stand011Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Stand012Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Stand012Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Run013Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Run013Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Turn014Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Turn014Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Walk015Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Walk015Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Walk016Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Walk016Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Skip017Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Skip017Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Stand018Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Stand018Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Stand019Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Stand019Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Stand0110Timer.startTime
> ROUTE Lily_Stand0110Timer.cycleTime TO Lily_Stand010Timer.startTime
>
> Pulling my hair out,
>
> John
>
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