need help : walk, death & co. -animation

[shankra]

Hello,
I'm using 3dsmax 4.2 to make my War3-models. My problem is to make and save different animations (death, walk, attack). I just can make one Animation . In this version I don't have the "set key" button that is used to make that animations in many tutorials i've seen. It looks like gmax in that corner. Maybe somebody know what I mean and what I have to do ...

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Make pictures of the interface you work with in Max 4.2. I'm surprised that it's really that different than 5.

 

[shankra]

So it looks : http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005587722355788137

This is my model : http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005996606191314596
it's rotating around the y-achse left and right ... that should be the walk-animation.

 

[TDR]

so what you basically want is...

 

[shankra]

1. I want to save that animation as walk-animation, but I don't know where to do this.
(In the Track view ... making note ... add keys ... and then?)
2. Afterwards I want to make more Animations : death etc. ...

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Go to "Graph Editors" --> Dope Sheet.

Make a Note Track under "Objects."

Make a note key at the start and end of your animation, and name them both the same.

Then do the same for your next animations, and they will be kept separate.

 

[shankra]

there is no Dope Sheet in my Graph-Editor-Menu ... only track view and sequenze view!
But I have imported an excisting Model, and there all animations are in a row. One after another. And all keys are in one Note-track.

I will try it like that.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

That's what I meant, yes.

I guess your max just has a note track, rather than accessing it from the dope sheet.