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I've gotten back into modding recently, and I want to know if my entity can have custom animations (kind of like animation states). These animations need to be accessable by code, as in they can be activated/deactivated by calling a function or event. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Anyone know if these are going to be implemented soon, or will I have to make my own API for it?

Sadly control.lua lacks a good way to change the sprite/animation of an existing entity programatically. You pretty much have to spawn/despawn new entities to trigger new animations, or use hacks like having completely different sprites for a "car"-type entity's Orientations and rotate it to get new sprites/run an animation.

well that sucks, I might make my own api seeing as there isn't any good solutions, and then post it here. Thanks