I was wondering about if this is already implemented, or if it's possible to do in any way. I'd want to use a scene or set of scenes from an animation in another model (in bones animation, of course). So, it would be possible to animate a legion of different bipeds based on the same skeleton, applying the animation from a single animated model.

I remember Darkbasic had something like this at load time (you could load a .X model and then load_append an animation from another .X model, or something like that).

I failed to search the forums for this.

Another derived question: would this be possible to do with a plug-in?

What I had in mind is a replacement for ent_animate with an extra Entity parameter, kinda...

Code:

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dll_ent_animate(ENTITY entity, [b]ENTITY animated_entity_to_take_scene_from[/b], STRING scene, var percent, var mode)

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Now, there's at least a problem and it's the dumbest one - if I remember right, we can't pass more than 4 parameters to a dllfunction, right?



|Emilio|

There is no such function available in 3dgs yet. Though I too would like to have such function as it can greatly reduce the final game size and less burden on game creation. I think you should ask this function in the "The Future" forum. Might be that enough voice can persuade conitec to implement this functionality into 3dgs too.