global animations

[karland90]

can i make some animations to be global animations on existing models?

in this case i have some limbs moving, but i want them to move at slightly different speeds, thereby creating variation and for that i need to have a global animation for each of them. and then play all these globals in the stand animation.

if not possible, can i create new (and global) animations to an existing model in any way more simple than importing the mesh to 3ds max and then making the new animations? i mean with magos' or mdlvis or something.

 

[D a w n]

the thing is: a global animation is GLOBAL. this means that they will play in every animation and not only in your stand animation.
it would be really good if you would tell on what kind of model which part of that model should be playing a global sequence, because then I could tell you what the best way to go would be.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

You could have variants of each bit with their own globals and then show and hide their geometry depending on the sequence, but that would be a logistical nightmare...

 

[karland90]

sry i dont want to give out much detail yet.

as a similar example i could say its like an engine model with it's pistons. i want each piston to move independently (as a global animation). and nothing else moves besides these pistons. and there are no animations other than the stand animation.
so if each piston moves at a slightly different speed, i get unrelated movement between the pistons, thus creating seemingly random movement.

i hope this explains my idea better.

 

[karland90]

sry i dont want to give out much detail yet.

as a similar example i could say its like an engine model with it's pistons. i want each piston to move independently (as a global animation). and nothing else moves besides these pistons. and there are no animations other than the stand animation.
so if each piston moves at a slightly different speed, i get unrelated movement between the pistons, thus creating seemingly random movement.

i hope this explains my idea better.

 

[General Frank]

That is totally doable. Just create different global animations and give the to the different the different bones.