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Jasonorc
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Ok, so, a few questions.

First, I want to animate my character so he can...say swing a sword, or shoot a bow, but have an leg animation aswell, such as flying a bird, or running. How could I make a m,axed and matched set of animations? (Not using enhanced animation pack...sorry.) Whats the easiest way to this?

And also, my Graphics guy has a way of "naming" animation, instead of having them as frames, is there a way is DBP to load named animations instead of framed ones?

Thanks

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zeroSlave
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 18:14
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Try using CharacterFX for rigging and modeling. It's free, and works well for what I do. I don't know about "naming" animations(I've never tried), but you could probably code some animations names into arrays:



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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 20:53
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You can use variables to store the frame numbers:




Or use constants that will never allow a number change:



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Jasonorc
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 20:55
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Thanks, I'll look into the characterfx thing, and thanks Grog, I'll be using that, but it's not what I meant. In blender my animator says he hasn't made the anims seperatly, they are named differently, and thats the only way they could be differentiated in code, ideas?

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Grog Grueslayer
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Are they in different files like a walking file, running file, and dieing file?

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Jasonorc
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Posted: 4th Aug 2009 10:52
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No, he has a single model, single file, that has multiple anims on a single model, with sets of frames, 1-12, then 1-14 and stuff. But I've decided to just have him use a different animator, other than blender.

But how about the legs and torso thing. what would be the easiest way to that?

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Emphasoft
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Enhanced Animation is a very powerful tool, which should do everything you need.

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BMacZero
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Just a heads up that animations do not export well from Blender to the X format.



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