[Question] What are the differences between Tasks, Scenarios, and Animations?

[Astria28]

Hello.
I’ve been looking for 6 hours what are the differences between Animations, scenarios and tasks because I want to know how to animate the player ped to achieve the best realism.
Isn’t scenarios the same as animations but with lower abilities ?

Thanks

[LamontCranston]

Scenarios are game files that set a NPC to follow a route or stand smoking or stand guard. If you have codewalker, you can change to scenario view and see the scenarios.

Animations can be created in Blender and are ususally activated by an emotes menu for your character, ie dancing etc

[Kiminaze]

Tl’dr:

• Tasks: Contain everything related to actual tasks for e.g. peds. See native reference:
  
  
  
  (e.g. TaskPlayAnim is used to start an animation on an entity)
• Scenarios: Used for more complex animations and e.g. cutscenes and sometimes with multiple peds or other entities.
• Animations: Are just that. Animations used for (usually) single entities.

[Astria28]

Thank you for sharing this.