Need Help- Anims and Bones

[PROXY]

heyo, It's me again Just another time I need your help

Soooo, I started another model right now, the "Demon-Queen". It should be a like this but instead of the horses felhounds, and the cart, without wheels (fliyng in the air). Soo, I got the normal felhound model and edited it, but my problem is, that I can't copy the felhound to make two because of the bones. Sooo if I copy the felhound the animations screw up, because (I know) that they don't go togehter with the bones Is there any way to fix this, that they both have the normal felhound anims? (I think it has something to do with my previous thread with rigging etc.?)

+rep for shure for help

 

[Mulgrim]

you can do that, animate both hounds at the same time, but if you want i guess you could use an attachment point for the left/right one that is missing..

just copy, paste, and set the keyframes from one hound skeleton to another

 

[PROXY]

ah, thx ok, buuuuuut, how can I do that ? I never did such things in milkshape

but + rep for shure

 

[Mulgrim]

well, to begin with, will you make brand new animations or transfer? because you can't import animations into ms3d

 

[PROXY]

jeah I thought that I just take the felhound anims, and let the cart fly up and down per magos.

 

[Mulgrim]

that's going to be a bit complicated, because ms3d doesn't import animations, so i think you will just animate the cart. merge that with the hound geoset, and make another hound to merge with the first one, when you have the 2 hounds working, merge that with your cart. all on vertex modify

 

[PROXY]

ehm, sorry, but at the moment I don't get it

 

[Mulgrim]

wait nvm that. just do this on vertex modify, might work.

get your regular hound model in vertex modify, geomerge/import a 2nd hound model, try that and check animations on model editor, something funny might happen, but it might work.

 

[Argus]

The easiest way I can think of would be to copy the model, use Oinkerwinkle's Geoset Translator to move the two copies in the opposite directions (one to the left and the other to the right) and then copy the geosets and bone structure of one of the hounds into the other. I tried it myself, but was unable to locate where bone's coordinates where located, thus forcing me to set the location of each bone by hand. Oh, and don't forget to change the new bones and geosets so that the geosets use the new bone structure.

 

[PROXY]

thx both of you, will try that