UE3 - General Animation Code problems

[FlamingRain]

So, I don't have much coding experience (for UDK my main position is an animator) and I wanted to change something that Unreal does.
Unreal scales your firing animation based on your fireinterval. For automatic weapons, this makes the animation look sped up (because I have a recoil and kick-back to origin that would happen after you let go of the trigger). I attempted to correct this by looking at the UTWeapon script, and then, overwriting the script/function in my new EOWeapon script.

/********************************************/
simulated function PlayFireEffects( byte FireModeNum, optional vector HitLocation )
{
	// Play Weapon fire animation

	if ( FireModeNum < WeaponFireAnim.Length && WeaponFireAnim[FireModeNum] != '' )
		PlayWeaponAnimation( WeaponFireAnim[FireModeNum], GetFireInterval(FireModeNum) );
	if ( FireModeNum < ArmFireAnim.Length && ArmFireAnim[FireModeNum] != '' && ArmsAnimSet != none)
		PlayArmAnimation( ArmFireAnim[FireModeNum], GetFireInterval(FireModeNum) );

	// Start muzzle flash effect
	CauseMuzzleFlash();

	ShakeView();
}

I tried many variations of editing this, such as removing FireModeNum from the function's body, and then I also tried replacing FireModeNum with DefaultAnimSpeed, and obviously, I have no clue what I'm doing so I could use a little assist.
Is there a way I can make the firing animation play at the default speed the animation is animated at rather than scaling it based on the FireInterval?
Thanks, and all help appreciated.

 

[brold9999]

The second parameter to PlayWeaponAnimation and PlayArmAnimation is the amount of time for the animation to play for. From a quick glance at the code it appears that it plays at the normal rate if that parameter is zero.

So, in this case, you want to replace GetFireInterval(FireModeNum) with 0.

 

[FlamingRain]

Thanks, the animation plays at full length now, but the animation will snap back to the idle animation/origin when it's able to be shot again rather than continue the animation.

 

[brold9999]

My initial intuition is that another animation (likely the idle animation) is being started when the weapon can be fired again and it's overriding the animation currently playing.