Add smoother animations relating to phone use

[Pazz]

Currently, the only animation on the phone is the animation your character snaps to, where they hold the phone in their hand and look down at it. Then, if you make a phone call, it snaps directly from holding it at an angle to placing the phone on your character's ear. This is all good, and well, it functions and displays what it has to. However, the wonderful thing about GTA is the copious amount of detail Rockstar always puts into their game; they do the same with animations.

Most of the animations, if not all, have states, where the animation with the character holding the phone is the "second step" for the purpose of the explanation. Then, it has a "first step" animation, which is the character, e.g., reaching for their pocket and then moving into the position of holding the phone, and the "third step", which is going from the static holding phone animation to putting it back in their pocket. Similarly, there's also a smooth transition animation to go from holding the phone to a phone call. There's also an animation that has the character's hand/thumbs moving because they're 'texting'.

Overall, it adds no functionality, but it adds a lot to the overall smooth experience. I have compiled a list of the animations below.

 

GRABBING PHONE FROM POCKET ANIM (to use when opening phone):
cellphone@ : text_in
(https://forge.plebmasters.de/animations/cellphone@@text_in)

 

HOLDING & READING PHONE ANIM (already in-game when holding phone)
cellphone@ : cellphone_text_read_base
(https://forge.plebmasters.de/animations/cellphone@@cellphone_text_read_base)

 

PUTTING PHONE IN POCKET ANIM (to use when closing phone)
cellphone@ : cellphone_text_out
(https://forge.plebmasters.de/animations/cellphone@@cellphone_text_out)

 

TEXTING ANIM (to use when sending a text message)
cellphone@str : cellphone_text_press_a
(https://forge.plebmasters.de/animations/cellphone@str@cellphone_text_press_a)

 

HOLDING PHONE TO CALLING PERSON ANIM (to use when entering a call)
cellphone@ : cellphone_text_to_call
(https://forge.plebmasters.de/animations/cellphone@@cellphone_text_to_call)

 

CALLING PERSON TO HOLDING PHONE ANIM (to use  when ending a call)
cellphone@ : cellphone_call_to_text
(https://forge.plebmasters.de/animations/cellphone@@cellphone_call_to_text)

 

[Harley]

+1 - Server needs a bit more modernisation. Phone UI update was a great step in this direction, now lets modernise the elements of GTA we use. Animations are built into the game, lets use them to make ECRP feel like a game that wasn't made 20 years ago