Digital procedure execution

The digital procedure functionality helps to execute digital procedures on the asset. The procedure can be implemented using animation clips. The sample template project have reference implementations of procedures using Animation Clips. You can find them in the project –GameData/Logic/User folder. Various approaches of implementing a procedure can be found in samples.

• An AnimationClip for each step in the procedure. In this method, in each step the animation clip corresponding to the step will be invoked. The previous and next callbacks will invoke the correct animation clip based on the step count. A reference implementation can be found in Gamedata/Logic/user/apm_animStepClipsProc.xml.

• Single AnimationClip for the entire procedure with different timeframe ranges for each steps. Here, all the steps will have same number of frames (for example, 30 frames for each step or 60 frames for each step). This frame range can be configured by user. Based on the step count, the previous and next callbacks will adjust and correctly map it to the start and end keyframes of the AnimationClip. A reference implementation is found in Gamedata/Logic/user/apm_animStepClipsProc.xml.

• Fully scripted model. This method is not preferred. A reference implementation can be found here: Gamedata/Logic/user/apm_fullCustomProc.xml.

Code example

The following snippet in apm_data_sampleAsset.xml configures the parameters for the procedures.

<define name="sampleAsset.procedures" type="config" >

<item name="numberOfDropdowns" value="3" />

<struct name="dropdownList_0">

<item name="displayName" value="@lang:sampleAsset_proc_dropdownLabel_0@" />

<item name="entries" value="ExampleProc"/>

</struct>

<struct name="procedureMapping" >

<item name="numberOfMappings" value="1" />

<item name="rule_0" value="ExampleProc"/>

<item name="procedure_0" value="ExampleProcedure" />

</struct>

<struct name=" ExampleProcedure">

<item name="title" value="@lang:testProcedure1@"/>

<item name="numberOfSteps" value="3" />

<item name="setUpCallback" value="launch_ExampleProcedure" />

<item name="nextStepCallback" value="apm_crt_simpleAnimationClipEnginePlayStep" />

<item name="prevStepCallback" value="apm_crt_simpleAnimationClipEnginePlayStep" />

<item name="exitCallback" value="exit_ExampleProcedure" />

<item name="useAutomaticStepText" value="true" />

</struct>

</define>

Parameters

This table contains a list and descriptions of parameters.