Hello friends,

i just want a human model's Head follow another walking character, so it's looking on (like Valve did it e.g. in Half Live 2). Of course i can create a corresonding bone-animation, but it's not working in this case, because the position of the moving character is dynamically.

Does anyone know, how i can "animate" the head to look onto the character with a smooth animation like ent_animate ?

Thanks for help

well first off you need to animate the player model's head, animaions making th head look right to all the way to the left and name these slides, in the scripting you need to script it so that when the player or enemy is in a certain range from each other that it will pick up the head animation so it's a mix of detection and animation, basicly the control of the animation so he would look that the entity.

Thanks Aaron, but this is not working, because an animation created with bones is fixed. But i dont have an idea, about where the model is looking. The position of the other characters is changing randomly. So i need an animation, which has different (changing) target-positions. I can do this by manually changing the bones itself, but then the Change in position is not interpolated, so, there's no animation

Is there a solution outside ?

The easy way but slightly ugly way: Just make the head as a seperate model and attach it to your model and simply rotate to look at the enemies ...

The slightly more difficult way: Animate with bones and change the percentage of the animation according to where the enemy is. Since humans are no owls you have to limit the turning of the head anyways, so it doesn't need to be perfect.

Cheers

And there is a tutorial, workshop 23 : "The bone collector"
in c-script tutorial 1..25, download it from the download page.

Thanks Friends, the Tip with the bone-collector was great (helped much for understanding), and the post from Orange-Brat did it finally.

Thanks to all, who helped