[x3d-public] Turning on and off simultaneous animations individually

[John Carlson]

Okay, I’m attempting to read the spec:

“All nodes under a Switch continue to receive and send events regardless of
the value of  *whichChoice*. For example, if an active TimeSensor is
contained within an inactive choice of a Switch, the TimeSensor sends
events regardless of the Switch's state.”

So I’m guessing that ROUTEs are not nodes, and thus are susceptible to stop
receiving and sending events in a Switch.

I don’t even know if ROUTEs can send and receive events.  Sure, they can
transmit or transfer events.

Clarification in some place in the standard is welcome!


John


On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 2:40 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it be possible to put an animation’s ROUTEs in a Switch that could
> be toggled on and off with a boolean toggle?
>
> Google AI says:
>
> Yes, you can absolutely put "ROUTE" nodes within a "Switch" node in
> X3D; in fact, it's a common practice to use them together to dynamically
> control which set of connections (via ROUTE) are active depending on which
> child node of the Switch is currently selected.
>
> I didn’t realize that statements were affected by Switch.
>
> John
>
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 1:43 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We are dealing with multiple facial animations.  The thing we want to do
>> is combine animations using HAnimDisplacers.  Currently, our animations go
>> from key = 0 to key = 1, (weight = 0 to weight = 1) and each animation is
>> controlled by a single TimeSensor that we enable or disable.  What we want
>> to do is enable multiple facial animations, yet retain a single
>> TimeSensor.  I have done something with enabling multiple time sensors all
>> at the same time.  So, ideally, we could toggle each facial animation
>> individually.
>>
>> Note that one can have multiple simultaneous HAnimDisplacer animations on
>> a single Coordinate, they all add up just fine.  There’s no single
>> animation per body part requirement as there is in other places in X3D
>> (according to Michalis, from my understanding).
>>
>> I don’t currently know how to individually toggle multiple animations
>> without toggling multiple TimeSensors, so assistance is welcome!  Indeed, a
>> multiple toggle button X3D example would be welcome (hopefully, something
>> we can put in a scenegraph).
>>
>> Here’s what we currently have
>>
>> https://github.com/coderextreme/ci2had/blob/main/resources/SingleMenuJin.x3d
>>
>> As you can see, lots of duplication.
>>
>> Viewed best in FreeWRL and Sunrize/X_ITE.
>>
>> John
>>
>
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