Making missile model. How do I do?

[Sunchips]

I am making an attachment model of a spear. I thought I could as well add birth- and death animations + add SFX to make it a missile?

So, what are the rules? I have never made a missile model before and would love to get to know how to do, using magos model editor

+rep for help, thank you

 

[Pharaoh_]

You don't need anything fancy. Like you suggested, you need a birth and death animation. Stand should also be implemented, for attachment issues. Notice, the death time should be really low, most likely 0.1-0.2 seconds, to be removed :almost: instantly.

 

[Sunchips]

thanks for your reply but im rather new to animating models so I dont know what to do really, I was playing around in magos, trying to find out how to do, so I made a copy of the stand animation and named it birth (changed the frames so they didn't override each other). Is that it for the borth anim or do I have to do something else?

Also in death animation I don't know how to make the material disappear
or is it something you do with the texture?

 

[Deolrin]

Just copy the mesh over to the Bandit Missile.

 

[Sunchips]

I got all confused, I tried to remove the original geoset with my 2 geosets (use 2 different textures so 2 materials) but I can only use the geoset animation, making it invisible in death animation, for one of the geosets? I'm not very experienced with this. Please help me out

 

[Deolrin]

You have to make a new geoset animation, just copy the previous one.

 

[Sunchips]

I tried that but then there was something else :S
It only made one material invisible even tough I have assigned both the geoset to the main bone and used the geoset animation.

I also tried making a new bone, asigning one material to each bone and make them have the same geoset animation. After I tried making them have each geoset animation (copied the original).

It seems like im missing soemthing obvious but I just can't find it out :/

 

[Deolrin]

Can you post the model here, please?

 

[Sunchips]

Here it is thanks for your help

 

[Deolrin]

There, I fixed it(And added a small rotating animation during stand, I will remove it if you don't like it, I just thought it might look kinda cool).
What I did was:

1) Take the bandit missile model, and convert it to MDL.
2) Take your spear mesh and add it on the bandit spear model via Vertex Modifier.
3) Remove the bandit spear mesh and attach the new mesh to the bone "Cone01" via Vertex Modifier,
3) Split the current model into two geosets("duplicate" the geoset) via Notepad.
4) Open whatever came out in Vertex Modifier - remove the spearhead on the first geoset, and remove the spear itself, leaving only the spearhead, on the second geoset via Vertex Modifier.
5) Open the outcome in Magos' Warcraft3 Model Editor, add the two textures - "Textures\CityStructures.blp" and "Textures\CampaignOrcaxe.blp" via the MPQ Browser utility in Magos' Model Editor.
6) Switch the current texture on the only material in the model to "Textures\CityStructures.blp" from "Textures\Bandit.blp" and create a new material, making it use "Textures\CampaignOrcaxe.blp" via Magos.
7) Switch the material on the spearhead geoset to the newly created "CampaignOrcaxe" material via Magos' Model Editor's "Geoset Manager" utility.
8) Create a new geoset animation with the same "Alpha" as the already existing one, and attach that new geoset animation to the spearhead geoset via Magos' Model Editor's "Geoset Animation Manager" utility.
9) Save the model as an ".MDX" file, open it in WarForger and make a small rotating animation in the middle of the "Stand" animation.

And that's it.

 

[Sunchips]

Thanks alot for your help I will take a look on what you wrote here whenever I need to make a missile because I will impossibly remember all this x)

+rep

 

[Sunchips]

One thing is, I want this to be able to be an atytachment model aswell so I don't need to have one model for attachment and one for missile, could you help me with a stand animation where it is just straight as it was ferom the start wich will be used for attachment?