Some questions about animations and how KSP handles them

[royals]

How do KSP do animations? With ModuleAnimateGeneric, the animation plays till the end then reverses. I can't get this behaviour, I only get it to play to the end then it jumps back to the beginning and plays from there. How can I do this in my own module?

Also parts like landing gears and legs: while in the editor, how can I get parts to jump directly to the end and beginning without playing the whole animation?

Cheers

[Diazo]

I have not done significant work with ModuleAnimateGeneric, but one of the Play() methods should accept a float between 0 and 1.

This is a percent on the animation so if you can set the module to 1, it should jump to the animation fully complete.

You should also be able to use a -1 somewhere to play the animation in reverse, but I can't remember the method name.

Hopefully someone who knows more will chime in shortly, but hopefully that at least narrows down where you need to look.

D.

[royals]

Looked at firespitter's source and if I use AnimationState's time and speed variables, I can set time to 1 and speed to -1 to reverse it. It isn't the most pretty but it does the job at least.