uhhh really?

because it's wierd for me, it only works properly when I'm camo'd. are your two nodes named differently or something?
Edited by HaloIsAHorribleGane on Jan 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM

Whoah omg good idea, Unreal would be epic!

Ehh ._.
For future reference, quality does matter.
I actually quite like HaloIsAHorribleGane's dual plasma pistol animations. However, if you're going to show that making animations is easy, you might want to make something that looks better than what you're criticizing.

better?

if yes it's final, I'm not going to get super nit picky

going to work on a posing, then after the light gets fixed that's gonna be it, this'll get released

Definitely looks better. I could go for it.

awesome work hiag,dual in halo ce i thought this wasn't possible?
im no animator but that's impressive right there.

It's not, technically. You either pick both of the pistols up at once, or you don't at all. same thing as the dual weildable weapons in h2_coagulation by CMT.

i think the orgin should have the guns further back.

1/26/11 - Never Forget - The Day HIAHG Did Something Positively Constructive

He's quite the animator too.

@HIAHG you should animate more often :D

HIAHG producing great content? Blasphemy!

this isn't dual wielding in the halo 2/3 sense, but you wouldn't consider this to be dual wielding at all?

ugh cmt's old dual weapons were eye-gougingly horrible. they used two triggers for two different projectiles, and the animations got all screwey and overlapped



planning on learning more about character animation as a hobby



inorite

and here everyone thought I didn't know crap about the engine because I was an unrealfag :L :L :L

well then, any actual criticism or pointers? or are you just going to stick with a completely useless, vague, unconstructive, unhelpful advancebo post?

better. now was that so hard?

granted this is the final product, the animations are sketchy as this was only meant to be a proof of concept of this approach at dual wielding. I will keep that in mind next time I do any more animations of any type: "don't try to copy halo 2/3/odst/reach's hideous walking animations"

anything else? I'm sort of surprised you didn't bring up the terrible, jerky, unnatural transition between the overheat animations

Yeah, they're good, but like Lodex says the arms and movement look restrained/restricted/strained/stiff. If you were trotting in a half-ton of armor, the movement would be more fluid or loose.

Edited by DarkHalo003 on Jan 27, 2011 at 07:33 AM

Why so late to the party brosf?

oh, that makes more sense then



if you were in a half ton of armor that enhances strength, stamina, dexterity and agility and somehow magically makes you three feet taller, probably by stretching your limbs in unnatural, uncomfortable ways, you also wouldn't get kickback from firing a gun or feel any burn from a weapon overheating. the animations in halo are nothing more than eye candy

I'd probably have a try at it, but I couldn't guarantee anything. I've actually got a few books I need to read through concerning animation before I'd feel comfortable tackling an entire character. first person animations are only a tiny fraction of a whole character

This made me think of something...


EDIT: a hahahahaha I missed almost the entire last page....

Anyway:



That is a really sweet gun. Kinda look's like the M8 a little.



What part of "WEAPONS W.I.P." didn't you understand? Bipeds go in biped thread and vehicles go in vehi thread...



Those were just to show that it is relatively easy. And I didn't have much time on my hands. and I only had really REALLY crappy FP arms. So yeah.



Yup. Make's yah wonder...


This is Madness.
Edited by Skidrow925 on Jan 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM

I'll send you my gbxmodel so you can see how my markers are like.
Also, when you release these, I would like to work on some dual rifles, unless you're doing that already.

Hey, new guy here.

I got some Paint.Net sketches of gun I would like to be modeled.

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww2/freakyfartface/LAGLRvariants.png


The 1415 Light And German Looking Rifle.

Whaddya think for a first time?

:P you beat me to it i know... The only reason im late is because I got my brand new pc with blackops on the first of this month and I didnt think about ripping it until a couple days ago

I'm almost completely certain that this is from enemy territory quake wars. It's the assault rifle with the grenade launcher unlocked for the engineer class, iirc.
Fake edit:


The thing is, he did it WELL ._.
Anyone can animate. It takes maybe ten seconds to move a ball two units over the course of three frames.
This argument is stupid anyway >>

Yes... Yes it is... You aren't mutually online with gane are ya?

I'm not paying any attention to what is being posted about the Quake look-alike,

I made another paint.NET.

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww2/freakyfartface/FIM201.png



The box with the logo on it is really a cylinder barrel. I hope you understand what I mean.
The ammo goes in the revolveresque bulletholderthingy to the right of the cylinder.
The stock folds out in a SPAS-12esque. You can interpret what the iron sights are.

I'm close to calling it the HAR, Homaging Assualt Rifle.

I'm going to call it the HAR.

If you actually model and put textures on it, leave the logo off the cylinder barrel, (I REALLY hope you understand what I mean.)

because the CSS rig sucks gorilla testicles. Tried something different with the thumb.

Purdy.

dont use those spartan hands there ugly >.> use the mw2 ones :P

negative. I do however have a working inbox

It really, really isn't...
Spartan hands are better than the MW2 ones to be honest, mainly in terms of the thumb and it's flexibility. Here I think he's using the beta rig though which is seriously screwed up in the thumb unless you know how to use it (which he doesn't). Your thumb should not be slammed into the gun like it is now, and the padded part of the thumb is actually facing down ffs. You should either have it directed at around a 45 degree angle between the side of the gun and vertically up or somewhere around there.

Need to learn how to rotate the forearms too, since that one little "nitch" on the wrist should be pointing inwards.

I know how to rotate the forearms, I'm just not positive at what position it should be in. Illustrate how you want the thumb to be (screenies).

forearms are wierd to work with since the bones twist. google search shows this twist.



you've got to take into account the way the skin is affected by this. oddly enough, the closer to the wrist, the more the skin is affected by the twist. unless there's canonical information out there on the way the armor actually attaches to the forearm, there's no real 100% way it "should" be rotated. I mean the armor can't rotate perfectly with the bones and skin, because it's made out of freaking vizorium titanium uranium super mega hella ultra alloy, right? though I'm sure you could study various images and screenshots and try to get a rough estimate. and I don't just mean from first person perspectives either, look at cutscenes and concept art and learn from it

Well, that's interesting. It seems true, the skin near the wrist moves with the wrist more.

the mp5k has a built in grip i thought