Animation¶

Creating animation resources¶

Animation creation relies on 2 kinds of resources:

• .qianim file, also called Animation Timeline, contains a sequence of gestures performed by Pepper limbs and head, as well as text labels associated with certain times of the animation.
• .pmt file, also called Animation Trajectory, contains a trajectory performed by Pepper base.

To create:

• an Animation Timeline, see: Animation Editor.
• an Animation Trajectory, see: Trajectory Editor.

You can also import an Animation Timeline. For further details, see: Animation Browser / Viewer.

Playing an animation on Pepper¶

Here is the pattern to build an Animation and play it on Pepper:

val myAnimation: Animation = AnimationBuilder.with(qiContext)
                                    .withResources(R.raw.animationResource)
                                    .build()

val animate: Animate = AnimateBuilder.with(qiContext)
                                .withAnimation(myAnimation)
                                .build()

animate.async().run()

Animation myAnimation = AnimationBuilder.with(qiContext)
                                      .withResources(R.raw.animationResource)
                                      .build();

Animate animate = AnimateBuilder.with(qiContext)
                                .withAnimation(myAnimation)
                                .build();

animate.async().run();

Where: animationResource is the name of the resource file (.qianim or .pmt).

Retrieving labels¶

To retrieve the labels of an Animation, use the labels method:

val myAnimation: Animation = ...

val labels: Map<String, List<Long>> = myAnimation.labels()

Animation myAnimation = ...;

Map<String, List<Long>> labels = myAnimation.labels();