jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Beginner's Guide

Time for action – responding to animation events

What if you want to play the sound loop of footsteps while walking, or reset the model to a neutral pose after crouching, or before jumping? To detect the start and end of animation events, your SimpleApplication must implement the com.jme3.animation.AnimEventListener interface.

public class AnimateModel extends SimpleApplication
        implements AnimEventListener {…}

1. Register the AnimEventListener (this) to each AnimControl instance:

   control.addListener(this);

2. Now you can implement the onAnimChange() method. It is called every time a new animation starts.

   public void onAnimChange(AnimControl control, AnimChannel channel, String animName) { if (animName.equals(ANI_WALK)) { System.out.println(control.getSpatial().getName() ...