Hi I want to know how to use bone animation with 3d models also I would want to know how can I program an animation to go off at certain event's like for example if I was shooting a car that drove by and a bullet hit the window how would I activate a animation of the glass breaking after the window get's like hit after 2 or 3 times? and gun's in my level how would I be able to make a gun appear in the player's hand when he picks it up. With 3dgamestudio could I make more animations like when the player is picking a gun up would I be able to create a gun pickup animation showing the guy leaning down picking the gun up. I only heard that you can make a run a walk a swim a jump a duck animation slides. How could I add gun's to the player's hand without animation the gun onto the player's hand.

You can play a bone animation just like a vertex animation with ent_animate(). As for how to play an animation of a window shattering or some such, i would make the animation for the modle in MED, name it something like "SHOOT" or some such, then put an ent_animate() command in the entities event function. like so:

Function car_event()
{ if(EVENT_TYPE==EVENT_SHOOT)
{ times_shot += 1;
if(times_shot>3)
{ anim_count = 0;
while(anim_count<100)
{ ent_animate(me,"SHOOT", 0);
anim_count += 5;
wait(1);
}
}
}
}

As for picking things up, you can make an animation where the model bends down and reaches for the ground to pick something up. You can make as many animations of whatever nature you want. The main character for the game im currently programming has like 40 or 50 different animations and over 300 frames of animations, including flips, rolls, three different mellee attacks, and more.

Hi thanks for the info.

I am going to search for some good step by step on using bone animation I hope I can do somehting with it.

Thanks for your help.

hi all...im a noobie, and i dont understand ent_animate..
where did that "SHOOT" come from?? is it the name of the baseframe?
how do i animate a model using this?? pls help (

Hi xbox 360 , the ent_animate is a command in programming , what we were talking about is to animate a glass breaking of the window's in a car model when you shoot it, I had to create the animation in med and then script it in wed or create a script that would play the animation so the script above is the script I would need to make in order to play that animation when a bullet hit's the glass 3 times the glass would shatter, that ent_animate is a command that you want to script a entity animation.What it really is, is to control when the animation will be played by checking the event's so the animation won't play unless a bullet model hit's the window three times that's what it say's up above, in that script but I could change it, if I want to.

To answer your question the ent_animate is the control of when the animation is going to be played, you would need to animate models by med or a modeling software. SHOOT is what he suggest to name the animation frames like shoot1 ect.

ahh, oke, got my animations working! tnx Aaron!!