Riders

[Hawkwing]

I would like to know how I can attach a Rider on to a model and animate it.

What programs do I need? I need a somewhat simple tutorial.

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If anyone can tell me how to add a dissipate animation to a model as well then that would be good.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I told you how to add dissipate in this thread!

http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36538

And I know it works because I've tried it.

 

[Hawkwing]

I told you in that other thread. I tried and I didn't understand. It's way too confusing for me... But I'll look again.. I'm assuming you didn't look at it after I replied and said that. ^_^

Anyways this is mainly about the Rider thing.. Keep that in mind.

 

[Cavman]

Adding riders to none rider models is not very easy.

You have to pick, or make, a ridder then put it on the right position on the mount. Then you have to add the rider's bones, rig them to the mesh, and then animate the rider. I've done it once before, and am gonna attempt it again with the Elekk Knignt model I'm working on right now.

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Just use animation transfer to add the Death and Dissipate animations of a hero unit to a normal unit.

 

[Hawkwing]

Okay. I'm not sure how to Animate it.

 

[Cavman]

Thatts tricky part. You'd have to animate new bones in the prexsiting animations. There are only two programs that I know of that can do that: Note Track, and Magos. Note track as a tendancy to cary animation values to differnet bones, and magos you have to do it all in the numbers. It's very tricky, and even I mess up alot.

 

[Hawkwing]

Does anyone know exactly how to do it? Could someone maybe show me a step by step way to do this?