Hi!

I am working on a new character movement, you can control the character via help objects. So that the model moves like the biped in 3dsmax! The tool will use animation with keyframes and save them...Here a very early version screen that shows that the help objects already move the model:

(maybe somebody wants to have his model in the final version, just say it, because I won't give my nice female model away... )
A lot of people make their animations in 3dsmax and don't need such a tool but I found out that sometimes it's better when you have realtime animation with bones, because you can give the animations other models too, you just have to copy the bone structure and attach the vertices to the bones.
Greetings
Chris

Hey really cool!

Does it work like inverse kinematics? And does it actually save the bones animations to the mdl file?

Yes, like inverse kinematics! But it is just a wdl code! It will save the animation to a extra text file...when the animation would be saved in the mdl, only the single mdl would have the animation... with the script every mdl which has the same bones can use the animation.

Ah, that's cool, but I suppose you can't use the engines' native animation instructions like ent_animate.
Wouldn't it be possible to throw away the mesh in med, leave the bones, copy/merge a new mesh and attach it to the bones. That way you can use the same bones + animation for multiple models, and still use the standard animation instructions. (if it's not to difficult to write to the mdl file)

Ah cool. controllers!
Still need to buy Comm or Pro for this

-Jeroen

Here is a screen of the rotation tool, you can see that the helper objects can change their forms and rotate the single bodyparts...

@Excessus: I will write my own "ent_animate" function, it should work like the real one, maybe I call it bone_animate or sth. else. The problem is, when I want to save it in the mdl, I need to write a dll plugin, but I am very uninformed in writing dlls. Furthermore, a lot of people will have problems, because the dll often doesn't work with different pc/windows settings.

This is something which is very very very interesting.
I thought about some kind of relative animation for multiple models a while ago.

Please do something and capture meanwhile so that you can show a video about it..

ciao
- Christian

Yes yes looking good! When will it be finished?

I can upload a demo when you want to see the moving...but I need a ftp server, I didn't have one...
it will be finished when everything works like I want it
so...I still have to make controllers (sliders) for the hand and the face, that will be finished in one or two days. After that I write a code to save the single keyframes and the animation functions, so maybe in a week or a little bit earlier.I just keep on working...

Here a pic of the hslider-finger-action, works very well:

I can host it for you on my server, email me at dniezgocki[at]11threvenant.com

-Rhuarc