From 20810aa0d3dfac49e1f43fe84634f74f56374fcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Skoland <davidskoland@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 18:26:19 +0200
Subject: Fix preanims not playing on blank posts

The early return guard `textnow === chatmsg.content` was firing on the
first tick for empty messages ("" === ""), short-circuiting the entire
animation timeline before the preanim or shout phases could run.

Now the guard also checks that both tick phases have completed before
allowing the early exit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 webAO/viewport/viewport.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/webAO/viewport/viewport.ts b/webAO/viewport/viewport.ts
index b37ff06..45cfc96 100644
--- a/webAO/viewport/viewport.ts
+++ b/webAO/viewport/viewport.ts
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ const viewport = (): Viewport => {
         playSFX(sfxUrl, chatmsg.looping_sfx);
       }
     }
-    if (textnow === chatmsg.content) {
+    if (textnow === chatmsg.content && !startFirstTickCheck && !startSecondTickCheck) {
       return;
     }
     if (animating) {
-- 
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