Animation Speed controlled by a Property/Speed Relative to Scale

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As many of you know I am making a game called T. rex World. In this game, the dinosaurs are supposed to be able to grow up real-time (BTW, I have already figure out this mechanic and have it down pretty well), but what I am having a problem figuring out is how to change the speed of an animation relative the property that controls the age. I don’t want to make 25 different walk animations for every stage of life, so I would rather speed up/ slow down the animation based on the individual’s size.

Any suggestions for how to do that? Oh yeah! When I used “Property” in the animation actuator, it worked, BUT it does not allow for blending at all, so it just “POPS” into the animation.

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you could do it with python (dont know if the rest of your stuff is in python or bricks)

object.playAction(name, start_frame, end_frame, layer=0, priority=0, blendin=0, play_mode=KX_ACTION_MODE_PLAY, layer_weight=0.0, ipo_flags=0, speed=1.0, blend_mode=KX_ACTION_BLEND_BLEND)

and have the speed as something relative to the property “scale”

like… speed = 0.1*object[“scale”] or smt

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you can also march a property at a rate, like own[‘Anim’] and set the play speed to zero giving you very fine control for synchronized actions

object.playAction(name, own[‘Anim’], own[‘Anim’], layer=0, priority=0, blendin=0, play_mode=KX_ACTION_MODE_PLAY, layer_weight=0.0, ipo_flags=0, speed=0.0, blend_mode=KX_ACTION_BLEND_BLEND)
own[‘Anim’]+=own.localScale.magnitude *magnitude

or something close*

I do this using own.localLinearVelocity all the time :smiley: