Animation Help...

[Lord_T]

Hi everyone, just a newbie in need. I am Trying to make a paladin with the blademaster's Bladestorm animation. I tried copying and pasting the blademaster's bone specs into the Paladin's mdl... but i got a garbled flesh heap not worth mentioning.
Help needed, I have access to Magos's Model editor, notepad, and oinkerwinkle's tools. Thanks in advance.

 

[Mechanical Man]

A newbie an older member than me?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Post the model you edited.

 

[Xarwin]

Hmm the paladin/arthas their animation are using a strange kind of view.
I still didn't figured out (I'm not that good in animation/modeling) which one.
I have currently a same problem with my arthas. Each time I want to change his animations, he's looking more retard.

 

[Lord_T]

Well... there's really nothing i've done. Only editing i need to do to the model is adding that animation. Is there a way i can do it in notepad, I don't want someone to do it for me, i want to learn to do it myself.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

To transfer the animation, the bone names have to be the same for both models. So all that needs to be done is for you to rename the bones of the Paladin to the respective ones on the Blademaster. Then transfer.

 

[Xarwin]

A bit more explanation please Chriz. , we ain't that smart as you .
Altough I know where I can find the bones and how to rename, I won't know which I need to rename since there are much different ones. And I guess that dude knows even lesser then me.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Well I mean (as a cruddy example) if the shoulder bone of the Blademaster is B_shldr1, and the shoulder bone of the paladin is called bone_shoulder, then for the transfer to accurately transfer the animation from model to model, you would have to rename the Paladin's shoulder bone B_shldr1.

At least I think this is what needs to be done, I don't have too much experience with animation transferring.

 

[Xarwin]

Well, what if the other model has more animation then the other one?
*pwned*

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I'm talking about for transferring a single animation. And I don't think it matters, the number of animations. If the transferred animations are more than the original, the new model will just have more than it used to.

If the model you are transferring to had more than the animations being transferred, then the transferred ones will likely overlap the ones they are for, and leave the extras as they were. No clue though.

 

[TDR]

ugh, dammit...I'll not be exactly on topic here, but could you name your topics more properly from now on? Like "Help with animation transfer". I thought you had a real animating problem.

 

[Lord_T]

Allright Chriz., i understand where you're coming from, but what do i do about bones that the paladin doesnt have, like armor left, flag, and the face animation bones?

 

[Xarwin]

LorD_T -> Ignore it. Just change the main bones.
I understand it now.
Thanks Chriz.
+Rep.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Allright Chriz., i understand where you're coming from, but what do i do about bones that the paladin doesnt have, like armor left, flag, and the face animation bones?

The flag and armor, you don't need, since the paladin doesn't have equivilant bones. So yes, just ignore them.

Face animation bones? On the portrait model?

Let me know if you get it working.

 

[Lord_T]

Thanks for the help, I'm going to try it again, but on the pally, (insert limb here)1 would be upper and 2 lower, right?

Ok.. I just tried 3 times... but i keep getting the message "Expectect "}" , got "1" in group "Bone'' in "Tally.mdl"!

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Can you upload the edited Paladin?

 

[Sephiroth_VII]

Maybe it would be easier to create the animation yourself for the paladin. It wouldn't have to be perfect just good enough.