The Action Engine is designed from the ground up to allow for the simplest and easiest method possible for creating, editing, and saving prim-configurations and small furniture/device animations. It is a system designed as a plug-in content creation tool for moving levers, buttons, switches, windows, doors, running engines, and changing the configuration of prims "on the fly" in a highly modular plug-in style architecture without drowning your object in scripts, not to mention reducing production overhead on your products by providing you with a prim animation/event system that has built-in triggers and other script APIs to simplify your content right out of the gate.
Not only does the Action Engine take away the pain of creating prim animations, making it incredibly fast and easy to create and edit prim animations... my Action Engine plug-in system can replace dozens of animation scripts... with just 3.
What other advantages does the Action Engine give you?
Action Engine was designed with object interactivity in mind, so it is much better suited for objects that require a lot of little animations than objects that require large, complex animations with a lot of prims.
ADVANTAGES OF THE ACTION ENGINE:
▫ Everything managed through an easy to use HUD; click buttons to save load, edit, etc!
▫ No confusing popup menus to navigate; only popup menu you will find is when naming your animation or creating an action trigger..
▫ No need to put a script in every prim. Not for playing, not for saving, not for editing.
▫ Easy save, load, edit, re-save, etc, easily change your animations as much as you want, any time you want.
▫ A script for EVERY animation? Nope, not here! Store multiple animations in the memory script.
▫ Animate only the prims and features you want to animate, per frame; great for doors, windows, levers, buttons, computer consoles, where you want a central animation system to control everything, BUT only want to animate specific parts at a time, etc
▫ Embed triggers for audio, link messages, chat , etc in any frame of your animation; for easy plugging into other systems.
▫ Free yourself from trying to sync prim animation with audio! We have every-frame, forward-only, and reverse-only sound triggers which allow you to have sound triggers play depending on the direction your animation is playing. Make a single animation to open a door, a close door... just by playing it in reverse and a reverse sound trigger with a slamming sound!
▫ Use triggers to change the timing/play speed of animation while it's playing!
▫ Start/stop animations using link/say messages using our easy to use API to control the player.
▫ Play animations forwards, backwards, looped, or ping pong in opposite directions-- even set how many loops! Great for engine setups!
▫ Resume an animation, exactly, where you stopped... in any direction you want to resume, forward or back.
▫ Play partial animations at start and stop frames, loop 'em, pong 'em, great for using a single animation to create intensity/momentum with just one anim.
▫ Scale aware animation playing!
▫ Export/import animations as Action Engine Script to/from notecards.
▫ Encyrpted UUIDs to protect your texture/audio UUIDs.
▫ Load Action Animation Script from notecard to memory if scripts gets reset.
▫ Smoothing/Tween feature; interpolate a new key frame between two key frames at the touch of a button..
▫ Incorporate Action Engine directly into your products; redistribute the Memory, Player, and Reloader scripts to your customers!
▫ 100% self-contained. Does not rely on outside networks, safe to use as a third party plug-in for your products. Designed to be forward/backwards compatible. Future proofed.
▫ End users want to mod/adjust their prim animations for the products they bought from you? Yup, they can, if they own Action Engine!
▫ The Action Engine is THE most flexible prim configuration / animation system in Second Life, bar none.
▫ Built by the ancient Lillani Lowell... so, not only is it built well and built to last, customer support is top notch.
▫ Built-in event informer that can be enabled to send animation status messages to scripts/chat channels.
Action Engine is designed for content creators first and foremost.
Once you've tried the Action Engine for creating your prim-based animations... you'll be hooked by what you can do!
The ActionEngine::Creator scripts are copy only, but the ActionEngine::Plugin (redistributable scripts) for end-user animations and product sales/distribution are copy/transfer.
CONTACT:
If you have questions, concerns, issues, or need help with this product please don't hesitate to contact me: Lillani Lowell.
If you want to see how it works in person, feel free to message as well.
- Create, edit, save, load, etc frame-based animations "on the fly".
- Embed event triggers (like sounds) directly into animations.
- Easy script API for changing the way animations play
- HUD based frame editing-- save, append, insert, copy, paste, etc.
- Informer system-- tells YOUR scripts what the plug-in is doing at any time.
