TXD animation with a timer fail

[Faw[Ful]]

I want to animate my TXD (gta sa texture library) by using a timer and many TXD so there is a texture with the same name in each TXD. With a timer I want to load the TXD 1 for example and after the TXD 2 and after the TXD 3 so at the end I will create an animation.

But

This work :

addEventHandler('onClientResourceStart', resourceRoot,  
function()   
  
txd_anim1 = engineLoadTXD('files/anim1.txd') 
engineImportTXD(txd_anim1, 2396) 
  
local col = engineLoadCOL('files/21.col')  
    engineReplaceCOL(col, 2396) 
  
local dff = engineLoadDFF('files/21.dff', 0)  
    engineReplaceModel(dff, 2396) 
  
engineSetModelLODDistance(2396, 500) 
  
end  
) 

and this dont work :

function animate()   
  
txd_anim1 = engineLoadTXD('files/anim1.txd') 
engineImportTXD(txd_anim1, 2396) 
  
local col = engineLoadCOL('files/21.col')  
    engineReplaceCOL(col, 2396) 
  
local dff = engineLoadDFF('files/21.dff', 0)  
    engineReplaceModel(dff, 2396) 
  
engineSetModelLODDistance(2396, 500) 
  
end  
setTimer ( animate, 1000, 0 ) 

But I cant add a timer in the first script , because my function need a name and if I add a name the script dont work.

[Faw[Ful]]

got the timer working but it look like MTA cant load a TXD on another TXD already loaded by MTA

maybe there another way ?

[AGENT_STEELMEAT]

So, you want to load the .col and .dff, then play an animation? I'm having trouble understanding you.

[DiSaMe]

You're doing that in a wrong way. First, you load custom models and textures every second and don't unload them. Because of that, you may run out of RAM pretty fast. In your place, I would use a model ID for every animation frame. I would load the same DFF and COL on all of them and different TXDs on every model ID. Then I would create as many objects as there are frames, in the same position, and would show them one after another with setElementAlpha. I would also disable collisions for all but one model (but I would still replace COLs as they're used to detect whether the object is on the screen and should be rendered).

[Faw[Ful]]

got it working. thanks, but need to use different dff for each TXD.