Can I get an Animation Turorial
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| I know how to animate my models in Lightwave, but I don't know how to export it correctly for use with Blitz, can someone tell me how to export it so that I can use it.. -I have been to Lee's Page and tried to use the exporter, but if someone could walk me through the steps, I would be very grateful, thanks all |
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| save out the scene file (lws) and make sure everything is in the same folder , model & scene key frame every 2 or 3 run it through Terrabits lwdeform note down where the animation cycles start and end for extraction within blitz, eg your walk cycle is frame 1 to 20 jump cycle 21 to 31 then use the blitz extract anim command walk = ExtractAnimSeq(mesh,1,20) Animate mesh,1,1,walk,2 |
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| Thanks Much this is really gonna help me out!! |
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| Hey I am giving this animation stuff a shot and I can't get my model to actually run the animation scene that I put in for it. My Model won't walk, and I did as I was instructed above:..... ;===================================================== ;some of my code ;--for the loading of the model enemy\model = LoadAnimMesh("vi new try 2.B3D") ;--for the animation in my CheckEnemyAI() function walk= ExtractAnimSeq(enemy\model,1,50) Animate enemy\model,1,1,walk,2 ;========================================================= So any help, or ideas, or suggestions would be appreciated |
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| What actually happens when you run the code? Does it give you an error, or does the model simply stand still? Incidentally, make sure you only call Animate once to start the animation, then call UpdateWorld every frame to increment it. Common mistakes include calling Animate every frame (which would make the animation start over repeatedly, thus never playing) and forgetting UpdateWorld (again, without that in the main loop the animation doesn't play.) |
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| Thanks I did have it calling Animate every frame, and I have fixed it so that the Animate call is in the Initialization section of my code. And the UpdateWorld is called in my main loop, so it should increment every frame. I do not get any errors or anything either, my model is just standing still motionless??? So what do you think it could be??? |
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| Can you post the b3d file so that we can inspect it? |
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| How do i go about posting my b3d file? |
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| Upload the file to the internet somewhere, and post a link for others to download it. |
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| does the model animate in the converter window ? if it does then its your blitz code not the model |
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| No the model doesn't animate in the converter window. So does this mean that the model is made improperly?? |
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| yep its a lightwave issue your scene isnt set up properly |
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| Could you give me a "checklist" of what I should do to ensure my models are exported properly within Lightwave, for use in Blitz-3D please?? |
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| best thing to do is zip the scene over to me..if you want , i can take a quick look for you are you using bones with weight map only ? |
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| I e-mailed the scene and object 2 ya so tell me if you find something kk.. -thanks |
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| ok got it, i will take a quick look |
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| ummm the scene loaded all mashed up But it doesn’t look like you have assigned each bone to a weight map when in modeler name your bones(skelegons) the same as the weight map, this makes it easy for layout click on each bone and properties , each bone you select the weight map name will match up then select weight map only |
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| should the skelegons in modeler be in the same layer as the model or in a seperate layer??? |
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| yeh same layer, i have found you have loads of stuff in different layers WORK ON A COPY OF OBJECT :) skelegons, just give them a surface name so you can delete them from the the mesh when you have converted to bones this will avoid texture problems im still looking into it , wow you have been playing with layers ;) |
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| ok sussed it...check your mail have sent you the lightwave scene file to tear apart check the names on weight map and bones in item properties also it converts check the viewer in mail i sent have fun :) |
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| It sounds like you guys already figured this out, but I can confirm that the problem was the b3d file. When I opened it in Ultimate Unwrap, there was skeletal animation, but the mesh was not bound to the skeleton. Also, there were only three bones (each side of the hip and one knee;) I don't know if you meant that or not. wow you have been playing with layers I get that same feeling when helping one friend with Maya. He keeps using layers, but to me that just complicates the scene graph. |
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| KK MUCH THANKS for all your help guys!!! |
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