Unable to prevent multiplayer voice chat's ear-grabbing animation

[luke-de-vos]

In a TTT2 server, I run this emote addon. The emotes are immediately interrupted/canceled if the player begins voice chat during it.

To fix this, I want to prevent the voicechat animation. The wiki suggests simply overriding this hook. I ran the following code in shared context at addons/addon_name/lua/autorun/addon_name.lua.

-- override  GM:GrabEarAnimation( Player ply ) to prevent grabbing ear
hook.Add("GrabEarAnimation", "ForcePreventGrabEarAnimation", function()
    print("ear grabbing should not happen")
    return true
end)

This had no visible impact. The print statement didn't execute either. Perhaps TTT2 is doing something different to run that animation?

Does anyone know how I can prevent this animation, or interruption to a separate animation in general?

Thank you.

[Histalek]

Overriding the GrabEarAnimation hook won't work because we explicitly perform the animation in the PlayerStartVoice hook [1].
This is done the same way in vanilla TTT [2].

Restructuring the TTT2 code and running the GrabEarAnimation hook instead might be an option to explore

Aside: You just made me aware of a possible bug :D

[1]

TTT2/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_voice.lua

Line 391 in d3801d6

ply:AnimPerformGesture(ACT_GMOD_IN_CHAT)

[2] https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod/blob/68366f07a2ce93389cb54a231e3bcee1a2a8509e/garrysmod/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/cl_voice.lua#L503

[luke-de-vos]

Got it, thanks for the links, I see now. And glad to be of service! Lol.

Editing TTT2 directly feels out of my depth at the moment, but following up on your links I discovered ttt_show_gestures. I've found found that I can disable that for the duration of the dance, that seems to solve the problem!