Is it possible to put these ragdoll animations into Halo? Like, I don't really know much about animations but are they the right format to be converted to Halo-usable animations?

CE engine itself doesn't do ragdoll. But if you made ragdoll anims in max, then saved them as normal death animations, then you'd have ragdoll-looking deaths.

you act like you know that from experience...

It DOES look effective. Here is an old example from years ago when I was doing biped shaders like my life depended on it:

Ignore the gratuitous engineer. That was when I was trying to make something useful out of it but I forget what.
For this I made my own multipurpose and cubemap.
The cubemap was similar to this, but it did not have the weird streaks on the sides without the highlight:

The end effect was that it made the armor have a matte finish.

Obviously there is no way to truly make the engine have varying levels of gloss. The best that can be done is to emulate it with cubemaps such as these, or simply blurry versions of cubemaps meant to be glossy.
There's no dopey-ass reason to be so anal about it, so keep your tampon on.


Weellll it does do ragdoll, but.. not. You'll notice after a death animation plays, and the dead body comes to rest, its limbs will succumb to gravity and fall a bit. Bungie themselves called it ragdoll in one of their old screenshot gallery posts, and it could probably be considered a primitive form of ragdoll. As for one's body flailing about in realtime, no. The engine doesn't do that..
Although, I've noticed that if for some reason a body is sliding on a surface and comes upon a wall feet first in the "laying down dead" position, the legs will bend in real time.
It probably wouldn't have taken much more work to give Halo 1 real ragdoll physics.

I don't think the idea of using ragdoll physics to make an entire set of animations for deaths would really do well. They need to have at least some animation before being turned into a ragdoll.
Edited by Enzo03 on Oct 15, 2010 at 11:39 PM

does ANYONE have an animated spartan biped? thats better than the default halo CE one? (max format, not halo CE format)
Edited by abkarch on Oct 16, 2010 at 08:29 PM

im just gonna throw this in here

i couldnt get a good pic, but here ya go, just to let you know, that bsp is the crashed POA
mah uberhunter is sooo much biger lol

the bitmaps need fixing and i cant make a collision (open edge errors *rolleyes*)

you could just use the default halo 1 collision.

lol did i mention the size lol.

u mad?

using default collision is much easier, since its already there for you. and if you can't read, he says hes having problem with the collision model.
When making collision models, you never want to use the same geometry as the gbxmodel, it can easily cause open edge errors, and also cause more power on your CPU, since there is more colliding. such as having a grenade bounce endlessly in a cage of a model. Custom collision should use simple hit boxes, simplified pieces of geometry that outline the shape of the gbxmodel.

oh my. :)

Are you tard? Hes not asking to scale up the collision. Hes making new collision, which is why he has open edges.

ok im just figuring all this. how should i make this collision? my box didnt work -_-

Shape a box around each bone and the part of the model, such as a "bip01 head", you would get a box and shape it around the head, adding a few more edges to make it shape better. You do that for every bone.

LOL, then why did you tell him to use the default one?

i assumed the hunter looked halo 2-ish, and that the large hunter was merely an error.

oh no its the normal hunter. but do i keep the original model? or do i delete it? sorry lol it looks pretty good ingame and i really want to see this hunter fight. I already have an idea for a better shield bash animation. so how do i know what is biped arm01 or whatever? alsoalso noobish question but what settings should i do for the gbximporter for the collision(i made the model already and i extracted that, so what should i use as reference? all nodes as bones or whatever?)?

keep the original model, as the new larger hunter should be in a seperate folder on its own (ex: data\characters\hunterxl). the "bip01" is the prefix of the node, similar to "frame". It comes before: head, neck, spine, spine1, pelvis, l/r upperarm, l/r forearm, l/r hand, l/r thigh, l/r calf, l/r, foot; those are just the basic bones needed in a normal biped, such as the cyborg.

ok so when i make the collision:
the folder is data\characters\uberhunter
so what i meant was, in 3ds, when im working on the collision (physics\uberhunter.jms) i want to import the gbx model i made for the big hunter. sorry that i dont fully understand that^
what i got: Bip01 is the frame? do i still need the frame? i never read tuts so im just guessing/testing. and i have to somehow attach boxes to the bones
so do i delete the gbxmodel i imported or deleted it?

Try rigging it to the human flood?

they're a bit wide aren't they? Dead people should slim up a bit. Though a fat one with gut rot would be cool.

Get rid of the permutations with the hats, they look out of place, lol.

They are to black and stretched textura's.

zombies just in time for halloween! WOOT!

I think he means re-texturing the the human flood combat form to the WaW zombie style.

Here's a Mystery box spartan094 gave me long ago.


Now all we need are BSPs :D

is that a missile pod turret I see in the backround? 0_0

yaaa... uh, i think it would be better to just make custom animations for the Nazi zombie biped instead of rigging it to flood... IMO

+1000 intranets to the first one to make an animation of elite yiff.

go2school

I'm surprised nobody has made or is making a minecraft biped o.O

ironic.

^Ha.

made the spartans for my homecoming campaign today, they look beastly :P

i give you:
Commander Lance-632
Gunnery Sergeant Zephyr-216
Chief Warrant Officer Saphira-969
and Sergeant Major Grey-440



my personal favorite is grey because of this feature:



i added an protoss style warp blade to both of his hands. the one with the swords extended is for cutscenes only. this is what you will see normally:



notice that the blue lights on the emitter are inactive on the deactivated version.

i found the model on garrysmod.org, originally called the modular energy blade.

i had a fun time designing these spartans, and it took me all day to finish them. vote for your favorite :D

You better not be using my cubemap or else im going to kill you.

um no....