Model's constraints

[Moro_Nick]

the last several posts in the following thread may be of some relevance:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3337&p=39124#p39124

Edit: ahhh. i get it now. good to know. alas, pattern recognition can take up the slack for a host of lacuna & deficiencies, leading like a homing missile to the sage value of waste not, want not. it all comes out in the wash with exquisite karmic pungency.

[MaNGusT]

Meshes other than the first are controlled by the animation "scripts". If you want them to display but not animate, I believe you need a dummy animation file.

It doesn't work.

AR.wz

[Per]

Ok, another question. How can I tell to the game when I want to start the animation and when I want to stop? or do we have only the cyclic animation?

Currently only cyclic.

I'll try to look at the issue more closely this weekend.

[XANAX]

you may have to set up the models like the standard cyborgs
one pie file is the animation & the other is the stationary
but difference is that the left and right of the props

so we would need
wheels.ani
wheels_driving.pie (1left - 1right)
wheels_stationary.pie (1left - 1right)


5 files in total

6 files if you need 2 .ani files for left and right

[virgilglyph]

All together interesting...

[Per]

Looks like the types of animations are hard-coded, so adding ANIM_3D_TRANS animations to droids will require code changes. The animation code really screams for a rewrite. I will look at solutions, but it will take some time.

Sorry.

[MaNGusT]

Looks like the types of animations are hard-coded, so adding ANIM_3D_TRANS animations to droids will require code changes. The animation code really screams for a rewrite. I will look at solutions, but it will take some time.

Sorry.

Thank you. It's better than nothing.

[Per]

Question to you artists - what tool do you use to convert your models to PIE files? The blender plugin, the 3ds2pie program, or something else?

[MaNGusT]

Question to you artists - what tool do you use to convert your models to PIE files? The blender plugin, the 3ds2pie program, or something else?

the blender plugin.

[astorian]

Looks like the types of animations are hard-coded, so adding ANIM_3D_TRANS animations to droids will require code changes. The animation code really screams for a rewrite. I will look at solutions, but it will take some time.

Sorry.

I have tested both animation types on the cyborgs - working. I am glad you are looking into it.

Question to you artists - what tool do you use to convert your models to PIE files? The blender plugin, the 3ds2pie program, or something else?

blender plugin