Inverting/Flipping a boned character?
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| I want to do a cheap reflection effect by flipping my boned character and putting it beneath my regular character. However, I seem to be having problems. I'm using the following psuedo code: newentity = CopyEntity(oldentity) ScaleEntity newentity,1,-1,1 This flips the character, but I seem to be getting lots of errors. The character is inverted, and it doesn't animate. It also screws up the multiple textures (though I can get around this by using a single textureon the character). Is there any way to flip an animated character reliably? |
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| I imagine the problem is that you are copying just the mesh and not the bones. Not sure how to fix that though. |
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| You could load in two versions :o) |
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| I'm playing with this more, and there's definitely something amiss - it must be down to the bones. I can squash and stretch the mesh but I can't seem to flip it on the X co-ordinate, so I can't realistically reflect it. The inside-out meshes just neeeded their normals updated, and then they were fine. However, still not able to mirror these things. |
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| Just to clarify, I've tried loading the model as a seperate entity, and it still doesn't let me manipulate it properly. For instance if I use ScaleEntity 1,-1,1 it actually does ScaleEntity -1,-1,-1. I'm trying to make water reflections and duplicating the geometry by hand is the cheapest way (CreateMirror is too much). Hmm. |
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| I guess if you flip a bone on ANY axis, you will get the full inverted effect you describe.. I think Ross's suggestion would be the best, and 'create' the inverted character in your modeler yourself and move & animate it in-sync with your normal upright character?! Danny |
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