Republic Commando 2 - Delta Operations

[{CCP}VI]

animation tutorial for which program?

i use blender and there are many tutorials for it. its quite easy; only problem is that it does not work properly .

have worked on animations for a while and there was only 1 successful test yet(though it was just a little 3-bone animation).

im not sure whats wrong but sometimes the mesh gets screwed up or works only partially. at least the editor accepts the psa/psk files.

btw, seems like the psa-files i've created make no troubles with udk, so maybe there is something wrong with the importer of the editor.

[Delta RC-2235 "Cyro"]

well...ccp? could you make some non-weapon anims? (2-3)

in rc there are weapon anims only!

[Mandalorian Mercenary]

CCP - I was refering to Blender, but if you know of an animation program that works I'd be glad to hear of it!

 

And Cyro, there is the helmet and flag animations.

[michonicle]

So Mando Merc, how goes your skins? And have you been trying blender? I tried animating an already rigged character, and it was hard and confusing!

[Delta RC-2235 "Cyro"]

Mandalorian Mercenary, i mean the non weapon anims for the NCPs! not the hud arms!

[Mandalorian Mercenary]

No, I haven't checked it out yet. What were you trying to animate?

 

@Cyro

 

-Ahhh. Yeah, you have a point

[michonicle]

Me? I was trying to animate a clone trooper I found online after hours of hunting. Its just confusing with all the numbers and stuff.

[{CCP}VI]

well, there are a couple of other programs you could use. xsi, maya, 3ds-studiomax for example.

if you don't like blender i'd try xsi, because its free.(at least there is a free version and i'm not sure but i think you can also make animations with it. and there should be an actorx-exporter.)

have tested it once and it's quite easy. blender is more irritating at the beginning.

maya and 3ds max are great programs but really expensive.

normally it should also work with blender. you can either download a script for a psk/psa-exporter here or you can download blender 2.5 or higher which should contain the exporter.

 

shows you how to make an easy blender animation and how to import it into udk. we're not working with udk but importing is quite easy and does not need a tutorial. just open the animationbrowser and go to file>import mesh/import animation.

hope that helped.

[Delta RC-2235 "Cyro"]

not really, buddy!

i don't really need 3-bone-anims! (maybe for a snake! )

i only would need some animations for clone troopers, like if a clone stands arround without a weapon or if a clone with weapon gets hit at his shoulder!

[{CCP}VI]

sure, you can add that way more than 3 bones and you can take a more complicated mesh. that tutorial explains how it works in general.

animations for a clone would be the same. well, its way harder and you would have to regard boneweighting and so on but theoretically its the same.

[Delta RC-2235 "Cyro"]

----> off!

sorry but...another question:

could someone here post the original battledroid skin for me? my unreal ed has a malfunction (bump-map error! he can't show some textures!) so he can't show some textures! (like the battle droid!)

 

that would be great! thx!

[RyuzakiL.Lawliet]

http://img44.xooimage.com/views/7/1/c/battledroid-235fcaf.png/

 

[michonicle]

Hey CCPVI could you send me a link to the .xsi animation thing? I wanna try it but cant find it.

[{CCP}VI]

actor-x-plugin(32-bit version)

actor-x-plugin(64-bit version)

Autodesk Softimage Mod Tool 7.5

dont know whether everything works properly.

[HockeyGoalie35]

worked for me when i got it

[michonicle]

Is it software or a plugin?

[HockeyGoalie35]

both, softimage is the tool, actor X is the plugin

[michonicle]

Okay.

 

Edit: I just opened SoftImage mod tools. How do you move around the screens?

And can you open RC models into it?

[HockeyGoalie35]

press the "S" key to select the move tool. and you cant, you need to import the .obj files

[michonicle]

How do I export obj files from unreal? And do you know any tuts for this software?

[HockeyGoalie35]

you cant edit original game assets. only make new ones

[michonicle]

Okay. Do you know any good tutorials?

[HockeyGoalie35]

hmm, not really, you con probably search around though

[Mandalorian Mercenary]

Oh gosh, my head's going to pop Too..much..information!

[HockeyGoalie35]

haha....well back to Delta Ops......