Hey,

I am importing my new made character animation to the ME. Everything works fine in ME but when in the game it doesn't.

What happens is that when i look around with the mouse the character/hands moves like it should be but the weapon that is attached in the animation doesn't move correctly with the arms "not perfectly aligned".

Well then u have an option in ME; animations::convert -> Target orientations to relative rotations. In-game the weapon stays correctly at the hands but some of my animations are acting weird at some key-points, moving arms/hands weird around that is not what i want at all...

   

Im exporting the mesh to ms3d or b3d... i tried with .x but the problem is that the gun animation isn't working anymore.

I use FragMotion for the animations.
Does someone have any solution to this problem?



Thnx,
~Dynad

When it it is in zero position, are all the axis aligned correctly? Looks like it got twisted because the axis in Zero position is not pointing in the right direction.

if hands animate correctly cant you attach the weapon to the hand using SkelPoint?
that's the recommended methos as it allows to have many weapons

I would do as Esenthel says, but do different animations based on which weapons gets loaded into SkelPoint,
void weaponswitch
switch(caseweaponswitchto)
case caseweaponswitchto M60:
{
play M60switch anim;
//code to get the point in M60switch anim when hands are gone from view;
remove any object from handskelpoint
attach M60 to SkelPoint
}
caseweaponswitchto "nextweapon
{
repeat
}

This is how all big games does it. R6 Vegas, css,unreal tournament, crysis.
well its basicly the same way they do it, a little advanced functions to make it look better etc.

Yes but i had some trouble with it, like reloading that the mag is falling out and the new one is putting back... and thats kinda pain in the ass if the hands and gun are not in the same mesh file. And ofc the gun animation, it would be stupid when u can shoot u can gun without reloading the gun... and if they have an animation how do i know that their animation with the hands are in sync?

I tried it before trust me but my hair went almost grey with Esenthels method.....

So thats why i choose for this option

Sure the big games do this way but they have source code of their engine, i dont so i have todo it with the stuff i have..


~Dynad

In animation in mesh editor you can see the length of your animation. go through the animation to see when they are synced.

Also, I've wondered, what is Imba Licenced? 1000usd?
possible way attach clip to SkelPoint on the gun via code, when reloading attach it to right hand skel?

first noway if im gonna do that it would take ages to get that right... my way is way faster.

second no its just mod cp

and last well try it urself u wont be happy at all with this method...

Well I dont know if esenthel got a way to detect which frames its in an animation. That would make my way alot faster.

Already have tried it, just not with Esenthel. =p

Yes well i tried it with skel points but not very successfull if u ask me ...

Well, come to think of it, there is another way of doing it, its having the hands and each gun animated together, (aka the same model) and when you switch weapon you switch the hand|gun model as well.

Quote:Yes but i had some trouble with it, like reloading that the mag is falling out and the new one is putting back... and thats kinda pain in the ass if the hands and gun are not in the same mesh file and ofc the gun animation.

Yes that was my plan..

So its kinda working now with weapon and hands in 1 mesh... only the controller class is not working properly cause of the skeleton names etc but that is not really a problem.