Play animation based on distance

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Hi!

Im working on a security check barrier and I want to animate the barrier so as soon as I approach with simobject OR with the camera so the barrier will open and as soon as I leave certain area it will close.
I made it to open and close based on proximity triggers of the simobject (aircraft) but this is a parking barrier and I want it to open as soon as I get close with the camera, so the only idea I have on mind is to somehow read from the MinSize of the LOD so if the minsize is 30 then play the opening animation, if minsize is >30 play closing animation.I tried everything I know but I didn’t got any results.
I thought of another idea that LOD0 will have opening animation and LOD1 will have the closing animation but if the barrier is half way opened and I switch to LOD1 the barrier will start closing starting from the first frame of the closing animation (0) instead of the keyframe the opening animation was stopped, so if the barrier opening was at keyframe 150 and I switch to LOD1 it will not close from keyframe 150 to 300 but will start from 0 to 300 with closing.

I hope you get my point and I really look forward to find a solution for this.

Thank you!

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Any help please?

Can it be done somehow with the LODs? So a script to check if the current LOD is 1 then play the animation in reverse or whatever?

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Have you tried changing <ObjectFilter>USER</ObjectFilter> to <ObjectFilter>ANYTHING</ObjectFilter> in your WorldScript?

If I remember right, that should take the camera into account, though I also remember it being a bit buggy in some cases.

I have not personally tried this any other way, so I’m unsure if there is an alternative. Hopefully someone else will chime in if there is.

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I have “anything” filter in place, but It won’t care about the camera position

And is buggy has hell because it triggers to terrain changes -.- , so implementation needs to have origin or placement above the ground