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| SWAT One:
Well, I am moddeling a new weapon in Milkshape (wish I could display pics but they dont seem to be taking corectly) and I want to know how to: 1) place a joint 2) take pictures correctly (so I can show you) 3)create animations such as reload and trigger pulling. 4) know which to export with: Torque Game Engine DTS or Torque DTS Plus I will also need scripters soon for it. |
| SWAT One:
BTW, by Joint I mean where the player would hold the item. |
| Blastdown:
To place a joint, you press the Joint button (next to Extrude) under the Model tab. To animate, you must first assign the joint to a mesh. You select the joint (it will turn red), then you select the mesh, then you go to the Joints tab and press Assign. Once assigned, you press Anim (short for Animate). You select the joint you wish to animate, then for example you move over one, you go to Animate on the top and press the Set Keyframe option then move again and once again press Set Keyframe (or you could use ctrl+k to set the frame). Make sure you pull the little bar at the bottom left, or you'll keep animating over 1 keyframe. When you've made the animations, you use Torque DTS Plus (this is what I use). You set the sequences there (these sequences will be used in the script). You press the Add button, you name the sequence and set what frames the animation is on (let's say the Reload sequence is from 1-8). You click OK and you're done. When you export, make sure you keep the Export Animations box checked. |
| Uxie:
--- Quote from: Blastdown on September 26, 2010, 02:34:27 PM ---Make sure you pull the little bar at the bottom left, or you'll keep animating over 1 keyframe. --- End quote --- So that's why I couldn't animate. Lol Damnit. |
| SWAT One:
I did pull the Bar, and well... Do I export every animation sequence, all I want is for a trigger to go back and forth smoothly, and when I click "Play animation" it stays at the first frame. Second, what do I call the joint that fires a projectile and the joint that you center where you would hold the weapon? |
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