| Making Animations [message #93455] |
Mon, 07 June 2004 18:06  |
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Spice
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How would I go about making a animation. I modeled a Windmill and
I want the Wind catchers to spin in a slow manor as its rotating in the wind. Of cours ei modled it in Gmax since it was for a map im working on.
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| Making Animations [message #93461] |
Mon, 07 June 2004 18:16  |
Tidu
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I was wondering about this too... do we have to press a button to start the recording of the animation, because sometimes i just accidentally move that little barr at the bottom and wonder if i messed up something... there's also an Animate! button that you can toggle on/off... does this turn on the animation or allow us to start recording the animation?
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| Making Animations [message #93462] |
Mon, 07 June 2004 18:18 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Maybe you should look around http://www.discreet.com/ and see if they have a... oh, what's the word.... oh yeah, tutorial or something like that.
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| Making Animations [message #93475] |
Mon, 07 June 2004 18:36 |
Tidu
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I got it now.. it's really easy
1. click the animate button, so the 1-100 bar turns red
2. move your object for whatever you want to be animated a little bit
3. move the bar up 1 notch for frame #2
4 repeat until done
5. press animate to turn off animate mode
6 to the right of animate is rewind, forward, play, etc.
7 have the animated object highlighted, and click play
8. i made a windmill easily, all you do is group the propellers and during every frame, move them on the Y axis a little bit.
9 i would guess export as a hierarchy animated model... but i don't know; commando confuses me 
tip: under the play, ff, rewind, etc is a button with a clock. click that, and edit how many frames (gmax calls them time: 1 time = 1 frame) you want and the speed. 1/2x is slow, 2x is fast, etc. I don't think you can toggle the speed in game; that'd be cool because it would look like the wind would vary in speed.
if i got it right anyone can.
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| Making Animations [message #93522] |
Mon, 07 June 2004 21:25 |
icedog90
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I know how to animate an object in Gmax and set it up to loop in gameplay. If you need any help, ExDeath, you know I'm in IRC or on AIM.
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| Making Animations [message #93716] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 16:24 |
Tidu
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Woudl you then just export it as an animated heirarchy model and it'd work? or would you have to do other stuff?
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| Making Animations [message #93746] |
Tue, 08 June 2004 18:48 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Oh dear....you have to animate every frame in gMax? Cinema 4d is way better, I think.
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"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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| Making Animations [message #93920] |
Wed, 09 June 2004 10:48 |
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Spice
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yea as far as I know. You can skip frames but it wont look as good. Such as doing frames at 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 intervals or doing animations at 25 , 50 , 75 , 100 like I did for a test. The bigger the intervals the shittier the animation will look,
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| Making Animations [message #93942] |
Wed, 09 June 2004 12:01 |
Tidu
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You can go into the time properties and set the max amount of frames so you don't have to stretch the animation over 100 frames.
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Tip though , when animating make sure the your object is all attached or you get some funky stuff 
