Dwarven Steam Suit

[DwarfZealot]

Yes I know what your thinking, "he would boil to death!" And your probably right, but this is fantasy right?

I am making this hero for my campaign, but i am having some problems. Mainly animating. I tried to follow a couple of tutorials but I didn't understand them at all, could some animation savvy person help me out?
By the way i am working in 3ds max 5

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I swear by this tutorial, seriously. Got me going.

http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=53729

If you have problems understanding something please say in this thread, I'll gladly explain.

 

[DwarfZealot]

thanks, but i have a question already, how do you make all the pieces attached, also I followed the tutorial and tried to make two animations, but when i export it or prevew it it it squishes both animations into one

 

[Mechanical Man]

You mean that connected thing?

 

[DwarfZealot]

what? no i mean i made two sequences, stand an attack but it makes them just into a stand anim

 

[Mechanical Man]

In dope sheet, under objects, add note track, there create pair of keys with the name of animation, one key at the beginning animation frame the other at the end.

 

[DwarfZealot]

-.- thats exactly what i did

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Show me a screenshot of your dope sheet, showing all the animation note keys you made.

 

[DwarfZealot]

ok here it is

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Other than the fact that you have two note tracks under objects, it seems like it should work fine.

Can you attach the model so I can have a look? The mdx I mean.

 

[Dionesiist]

Ooh, unofficial release!

 

[Callahan]

do it in the pastebin

 

[DwarfZealot]

the one i am talking about now isnt the steamsuit, its the snowman i made for the tutorial.

 

[Dionesiist]

Bygreatfatherchristmas!

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Max file now please.

 

[DwarfZealot]

ok i fixed all the problems with that model, i am not animating my steamsuit.... I have made the walk anim and thats it, when i try to export it says the following items use float keys and will not be animated.... wtf are float keys and how do i get rid of them?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

You have to set the controllers of those items to TCB. You have to select the item, go to the tab with the wheel on it on the right, and under "assign controller" select TCB for all three.

 

[DwarfZealot]

TBC float? thats th3e only tbc on there

 

[Deleted member 126647]

TCB position, TCB rotation and TCB scale.

 

[DwarfZealot]

as requested on chat.

 

[Mechanical Man]

That one above the last

 

[DwarfZealot]

Hey chriz. how do I get the animations to export properly?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

What do you mean? Just...export the model, with the correct Dope Sheet information.

 

[Need_O2]

Hmm I have the same problem thanks for helping now I recive a messange "the following objects are missing closing key frames in specified sequences" when I save the model it is still unanimated :/

 

[l-hate_you]

I have the same problem- there are absolutely no tutorials on how to do animation in 3DS max and its pretty complicated- in gmax there were no colored keys.. I need help animating my model. I just fixed the TCB thing and now its saying theres no ending to my animation keys. How do I add the ending keys and how do i make an interval as Stand and another as Walk etc? I just know how to place plain-old keys.

 

[skrab]

I have the same problem- there are absolutely no tutorials on how to do animation in 3DS max and its pretty complicated- in gmax there were no colored keys.. I need help animating my model. I just fixed the TCB thing and now its saying theres no ending to my animation keys. How do I add the ending keys and how do i make an interval as Stand and another as Walk etc? I just know how to place plain-old keys.

did you read the Art Tools documentation?

 

[Dr Super Good]

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