Okay, so I've been working on an SMG set for a UT3 mod lately that will feature Halo 1 assets and functionality.

However I'm also wanting to get this into CE as well, understandable right

Okay, so I'm having an issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2BrlyyWLkg

This is the animation set I want to be using. I've done the animation set, then deleted all of the FP arm skeletal bones, and exported the SMG model.

However, I get into Halo, and I get this:



Originally, my SMG looked like this in Max, and still does if I import the SMG and FP arm models

READ THE RULES:
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=2979

Bypassed profanity filter

HOWEVER I use the animation importer, and this is what happens:



I am raging so hard, spent a good couple of hours on those SMG animations, only to get defecated upon by some retarded node crap.

I was hoping to upload this to Halomaps today... but low and behold.

IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR THIS

oh and it looks and works and is scaled perfectly in Unreal. THE SAD, SAD IRONY
Edited by Marka Haiyana on Oct 6, 2009 at 03:18 AM
Edited by Dennis on Oct 6, 2009 at 07:44 PM

It looks like there isnt a Frame Gun on it.

I'm pretty sure Dennis will take your pictures off, they contain profanity.
Might want to make a few new ones.

I don't see any profanity in there...
Anyway, I remember having something like this happen to a sentinel beam I was working on a long time ago, but I never fixed it :\

Import an animation, like you just did,

then re-rig the smg while you hold it in the correct position.

there, solved.

that is, i dont see your animation in halo, but if it's just having an offset then this is the way to solve it, otherwise i'd need a better problem description.

frames mooks. your animation frames. make sure they have NO BASE SCALE other than 100% and NO ROTATION OFFSETS

I loved it... but that's just me

I tried that. No luck. SMG pickup is now not floating in mid-air, however the FP animations still show no gun whatsoever



Where can I find those options?

E: nvm checkin
Edited by Marka Haiyana on Oct 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM

quick note about the pickup: use a different model lol

about what donut said, the offset is cheaply solved with re-rigging while animated, even if the axis is completely ffed you should see it in a few frames correctly atleast, which isnt the case oddly enough

I wound up getting it. It was a scaling issue, apparently all of the nodes were 1.036 or something rather than 100, that's because I rigged it before scaling it down REMIND ME TO NEVER DO THAT AGAIN. I used Reset Xform and had to reanimate bits, which was a pain in the ass without IK rigs and dependancies...

I finished it though, and it's uploaded to the queue as we speak.

did you change the melee animation? I liked Halo 2's better to be honest

you can also go tot he heiarchy tab and you should have two buttons: reset scale and reset transform. to see what these values are, right click on one of the transforming tools, like move or scale. this will bring up a box with your absolute world values, and also allows you to type in transform values. it lets you set the node's scale and rotation back to 0 without affecting the actual geometry or position