Rotating animations

[Thrikodius]

Hey
I'm using magos War3ModelEditor to animate my models, but I'm kinda limited. I don't get how to rotate a bone in the animation. I have tried to set some values but when I play the animation it just looks like some messed up scaling.

Could someone give me a short guide? I learned all I know about animations from a Dissipate Animation tutorial here on hive. So a short introduction should be enough for me to get into it all.

 

[xXMephistoXx]

You've really hit a snug, since it's not possible to rotate in magos's... Something's fucked up in the script, which forces the program to delete everything you typed in rotation the moment youe click "OK"...

 

[Thrikodius]

Well that kinda sux. Is there some other program that I can use to animate then?

 

[xXMephistoXx]

Oinkerwinkles tools, it's not optimal, I'd say, but it works...
Or you could get yourself a proper modelling program, like G-Max, Milkshape or 3D Studio Max

 

[BlinkBoy]

If you want to keep animating in magos and you want to animate rotation; u'll require one tool for that. Among oinkerwinkle tools there's one that converts Euler Angles into Quaternions, use it for building up the animation keys so you can animate properly.

The reason is because wc3 uses quaternions instead of euler angles for rotating objects, mainly because it's easier for wc3 to compute quaternions than euler angles.

 

[Thrikodius]

Can you give me a link to the tool? I didn't find any matching description among the tools.

 

[xXMephistoXx]

You mean me? In taht case, I've allready linked 4 tools for you...

 

[Thrikodius]

No I meant the tool that Blink Boy talked about.

 

[xXMephistoXx]

You can find it here.

 

[Thrikodius]

What's the use of helping me if you don't read my threads. I already said I didn't find any matching description. I wan't the name of the tool.

 

[skrab]

I already said I didn't find any matching description.....

what description.. you have the tutorials and read them
TUTORIALS

....I wan't the name of the tool.

the name of the tool we use is Oinkerwinkles tools

also try Warshape
or milkshape if you can't get 3d max >_>

 

[BlinkBoy]

I'm sorry I couldn't find the link.

this tool is from oinkerwinkle, since I couldn't find the link, I'll upload it.

 

[Thrikodius]

Thanks Blink Boy. At last someone got what i was talkin about.