Need help with animation

[Justicebringer]

Hi!

I have some missile models without death animations.
I have no idea how to make a death animation for it,
but I have no idea how to make them.
I know the basics of magos model editor.
Plz help, I dont even know what program should I use...

 

[Idaero Ace]

I thought you can make the animtion with emmiter if that missile is made by emitter

 

[Justicebringer]

No, it has a model. Thats the problem.
I know with mldvis you can create some animatons,
but to make the model smaller and smaller then
finally erase it... Should I use 3ds max for this?

 

[Idaero Ace]

let me remember, I think we can change the geoset with magos. Too bad right now I'm using notebook

 

[Vinz]

Geoset animation manager. Create one geo anim for all geos that are supposed to disappear. Open sequence manager, create death anim in a sequence far away from those existing. At the start of such sequence, every ~50 frames, write animated alpha in the geoset anims and deduct them. This will make the geosets fade.

 

[andreariona]

No, it has a model. Thats the problem.
I know with mldvis you can create some animatons,
but to make the model smaller and smaller then
finally erase it... Should I use 3ds max for this?

Open it on Mdlvis > Modules > Sequence Editor > Select "Anims" tab > Pick "Create" > Rename "New" animation into "Death" > Select the geoset you wanted to resize on animation > Made about 5 - 7 keyframes and rescale it smaller each frame > Untick visibility at the end of the frame so it's dissapear. Voila.

This doesn't work if your sfx is only particle emitter though.

 

[Karassu]

Easiest way is to just make the missile disappear completely while emitters come exploding.
The missile model's death animation will not be that visible with particle emitters coming out anyway.

 

[Justicebringer]

Thx for help, all got rep!
I had some problem with the alfa phase of
the solution given by Cakemaster.
But Andreariona's method worked for me.

Oh, I have 1 more issue. Although I can create emitters,
I dont know how to play them in certain frames, or
animation. So basically the emitters I make are always
going endlessly in every animation....

 

[Vinz]

Magos': Visiblity -> Check Animated
0: 0
<starting frame sequence of your desired anim>: 1
<ending frame sequence>: 0

 

[Justicebringer]

Oh, I understand. But still Its not working, Im so
desperate...Please, please
check it out:

 

[Vinz]

I don't know. :[

Maybe it's the other particle?

 

[Justicebringer]

No, its that particle.
But anyway, it was helpful. Perhaps it
will work with other models. I want to
give you a chocolate cookie.

 

[Freddyk]

Oh, I understand. But still Its not working, Im so
desperate...Please, please
check it out:

For visibility anims you should set the interpolation type to "none" (not linear).
If that doesn't fix your problem, you should try to add a keyframe for the beginning of each sequence to force the visibility to 0.