ACTION
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## ACTION

### Description

Level: 3rd

(wm3d 0.41 or later) An Action.

### Parent Elements

AMGR

### Child Elements

nothing

### Attributes

type (type:String) = ""

  Type of action. Currently available actions are:

  AUTOROT: rotation gradually
  ROT: rotation at once
  AUTOTRANS: translation gradually
  TRANS: translation at once
  AUTOSCALE: change scale gradually
  SCALE: change scale at once
  AUTODEPTH: change camera z-pos gradually
  DEPTH: change camera z-pos at once
  PLAYFOR: begin forward playing
  PLAYBACK: begin backward playing
  MOVESCENE: move to a specified scene
  FORWARDSCENE: forward a scene
  BACKSCENE: backward a scene
  WAIT: wait
  RESETVIEW: reset camera settings
  RESET: reset scene (reload original XML)

  Available parameters are:

  x, y, z: extent for each dir (*ROT, *TRANS)
  v: non-directional extend (*SCALE, *DEPTH)

  AUTOROT, AUTOTRANS, AUTOSCALE, AUTODEPTH, and WAIT also use frame attribute of this element.

params (type:Int) = "0"

  Parameters for this action. See type above first. Values are given by params="(name1):(value1) (name2):(value2)" in XML file. Acceptable parameters depend on the type, and the list of params are listed in type above.

frame (type:Int) = "0"

  One of parameter for an Action. But, this is common for most events. This parameter specifies the number of frames (not time) to be spent in this action. This param is related to some parameters defined in the "param" attribute.

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