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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 5th Feb 2004 20:57
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I've been having pure bad luck ever since I started looking for an animator. First I tried Anim8tor, that was pretty good and I make a really good running animation, but the files don't load into dbpro. Then I tried JT Edit, but I really can't use it cos it keeps crashing, I appreciate its only in the early stages though and its gonna make one hell of a program when its finished. 3D canvas was next on my list, I download the demo and it works fine once. Then I open it up again and try to load the same .x model again and it crashes. I've tried again several times with no success. Lastly I tried the milkshape demo, I manage to get a model loaded, but whenever i look at the help to learn how to use it, it just freezes and quits.

As you can see I'm really not having any luck. Are there any other free/relativly cheap programs I could use for skeletal animation out there that work well without crashing? Thanks.

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zircher
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Posted: 5th Feb 2004 21:41
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You can download the CHM file for Milkshape's help file from their web site and that should fix the help look up bug. I'd give MS3D a second chance since it has a lot of bang for the buck.
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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 5th Feb 2004 22:14
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Thanks, trying that now. I've got the skeleton working with the model, just I'm having troubles with animating (key frames).

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walaber
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Posted: 6th Feb 2004 06:19
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i think milkshape is your best bet out of those. you seem to have programs crash alot- any possibility your system itself is unstable?

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arras
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Posted: 6th Feb 2004 11:56
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Get CharacterFX ..you can try it for 30 days for free than you must register for fairly low price.

Its better than Milkshape and export to x without problems.
I higly recomend it...
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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 6th Feb 2004 17:22
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Thanks everyone, lithunwrap has started complaining that I need some directX 8.0 feature to save to .x, so maybe I should try downloading directx again. I will try CharacterFX arras, thanks a lot.

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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 6th Feb 2004 18:32
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Hey, I'm finding this CharacterFX really good. It was pretty easy to bone the body and I've got a really good running animation coming along. Thanks Arras, I will consider regestering .

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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 6th Feb 2004 19:36
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Triple post, sorry....

My first step towards becoming an accomplished animator dude . A running loop with super-box-man . Now I'm gonna try and make animations for linking static with running.

http://www.dbforums.co.uk/thedbplace/contents/modelling/guy.cfx

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