LoopEnd
The frame that ends every pass of a looping animation except the last.
- Applies to
- AnimType
- File
art.ini- Section
[<ObjectType ID>]- Value
- integer
- When omitted
- ComputedThe frame count of the shape the type first gets hold of, or zero if it never gets one.
The value is a frame number in the shape rather than a count of stages, which is how it differs from End. The frame itself is not displayed: the pass ends and the animation jumps back to LoopStart in the same logic pass that reaches it.
It bounds the middle passes only. The final pass — the one during which the last of the LoopCount is spent — runs to the stage count in End instead, so an animation whose two figures disagree plays a different length of artwork on its way out than it did on the way round.
A Reverse=yes animation begins here rather than ending here, and returns here at the start of every pass.
Shortening an animation with End= does not move this figure. The stage count and the loop end are both taken from the artwork before either key is read, and this key is read after End=, so an animation that states only the shorter stage count still loops over the full length of its shape. Both have to be stated together to shorten a looping animation.
-1 marks the figure unset, and it is taken from the animation’s stage count again the next time an animation of the type is created.
A structure whose weapon charges up measures the charge against the frame number belonging to the animation in its TurretAnim slot: the turret is charged once the charge sequence reaches that frame, or once it reaches frame 12 if the structure is running no turret animation at all.