Hello, I am trying to make a custom vehicle from scratch becasue I wanted to make this when I first started playing Halo and also because I am bored.

A picture can be found here.
http://www.xfire.com/profile/anthonybeug12/

It is a giant rolling hamster ball that you can get in and splatter people with. I need to animate it. I think I know how to make basic moving animations for the vehicle itself, but I am unsure of how to move the cheif. In GBXmodels of vehicles I have imported, I could only find certain cyborg joints like the hands, legs and pelvis. Where are the other joints, as I want the master cheif to run around inside the ball. I do not want him to limp around inside, I want him to run. I think it might have to do with the cyborgs model animations. Do I have to edit these as well? I am not sure as all I have ever really animated was a spinning fan for animated scenery. Could someone please enlighten me on this subject in detail please?

Copy the animations from "stand unarmed" and rename them to "h-ball" or someting.

Also to help with the ball animations, make a "frame root (parent node)" and a "frame ball" for the ball geometry. And lnik the markers such ad the "#driver" to the "frame root" so that the cyborg doesn't spin in circles with the ball.

I already set up the nodes like that, and do how exactly do I copy the animations?

Duplicate the "stand" unit animations and rename the new one to whatever you want.
Then go down to the next set, and delete all but "unarmed".

What markers do I need? I have the camera, the enter and driver.
Do I need ones for the hands and feet?
Edited by Ro0ster on Jan 21, 2010 at 02:53 PM

No