From "3DMax" to "3D Builder"

dinamik · Post by **dinamik** » 28 Jun 2006, 21:34

I tryed take Unit (with animation, 20 frames) - from "3DMax 7"
and put in "3D Builder"

All right, not problem.
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But in "Spring" not so good.
He shivers (FPS about 70)

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 28 Jun 2006, 21:37

how are you converting max animations to animations for 3do?

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 28 Jun 2006, 21:50

What he said

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 28 Jun 2006, 21:51

If you can do animations in a non-script way, Then we can finally do nice animations! yay! \o/

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 28 Jun 2006, 22:10

Drone_Fragger wrote:If you can do animations in a non-script way, Then we can finally do nice animations! yay! \o/

No, silence you...

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 28 Jun 2006, 22:14

I hope it isn't just a load of pieces with a show-hide sequence. If it is, I'm going to be oh so pissed

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 28 Jun 2006, 22:22

dinamik

you need to either a: make us a mod or b:share all your secrets with us... you don't have any other choices as far as I'm concearned :D

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 28 Jun 2006, 22:24

*me remembers something*

http://taspring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewt ... &start=220

I try to explain how I have exported it, but my english is very bad...

1) I have created the leg animation in 3d Studio Max using bones and an spline that the feet follow:

2) I writed down Y angle for each leg piece for each frame in a spreadsheet and with some calculations I found TA angles:

3)Then I created the script with excel fom the TA angles:

4)Copyed and pasted in scriptor.

This method works with leg animations, but I writed down only (4leg)*1(angle)*(50frame) angles, if you have to export all 3 angles per leg it becomes a bit long, but the result is almost perfect.

Here you can find 3ds model, and the spreadsheet.:

[USE SAVE AS TO DOWN THIS]
http://guru.altervista.org/taspring/sentinel_all.rar

We need a plugin to do that, so that we modders don't have to do it by hand

dinamik · Post by **dinamik** » 29 Jun 2006, 07:35

No any secrets. This simple show-hide method.
For me was simply interesting to try apply
this method - in "3D Builder".
And, to the surprise, I have seen very clean picture,
with good animation.
"3D Builder" with ease has accepted this method !

But in Spring game not so. At once it became clear that
spring engine - not like this.

Neuralize · Post by **Neuralize** » 29 Jun 2006, 11:04

Try putting this in the unit tag?
smoothanim=1;

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 29 Jun 2006, 11:09

What you have to do is do the "show" of the next frame before the "hide".

And you want smoothanim to be 0, not 1, otherwise Spring will tend to drop show/hides operating on Nows when it interpolates.

Making sense?

Spring RTS Engine

From "3DMax" to "3D Builder"

From "3DMax" to "3D Builder"