Question by kacyesp · Sep 07, 2014 at 07:31 AM · boolean animation events

Why don't animation events allow you to call functions that take a bool parameter?

According to the docs, "The parameter can be a float, string, int, object reference or an AnimationEvent object."

Is there a good reason behind this? My only thought is that setting bool parameters during an animation is meant to be done somewhere else, but if that is the case, then where?

Right now I have a function which gets called at the start of each animation as an animation event:

 private void SetInterruptableFlag( int interruptFlag )
 {
     character.CurrentActionIsInterruptable = interruptFlag != 0;
 }

I know it's trivial, but I feel like I should just be able to directly set the variable equal to the value of the passed in argument instead of making an extra != comparison.

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DESTRUKTORR · Oct 11, 2014 at 04:28 PM 1

I would honestly chalk it up to deadlines. I can't come up with a reasonable explanation for why they would ignore bool arguments, apart from the idea that the animation event system is not yet fully fleshed out.

indieDoroid · May 11, 2016 at 07:06 AM 0

"+1" for me

Just today wanted to add a bool to my animation event.

Not allowed.

facepalm

bobmoff · Sep 13, 2016 at 10:42 PM 0

ha ha, this is so silly that it doesnt work.

Bonfire-Boy · Sep 14, 2016 at 09:14 AM 3

I take the point in the question, but it makes the current situation look worse than it is... a ternary operator isn't necessary there (just use interruptFlag!=0, it's already the bool that the ternary operator returns).

kacyesp Bonfire-Boy · Nov 15, 2016 at 03:14 PM 0

You're super right lol I must have been tired. Can't believe I didn't realize that at the time. I edited the question to use the != comparison instead of the ternary.