Alright, so I've been experimenting with First-Person Animations and 3rd-Person Animations and decided I like fp animations better. Now, I ALMOST completely reanimated the default assault rifle for some practice (I'm making my own modified MA5).

I know what the following animations do:

first-person firing
first-person melee
first-person idle
first-person moving
first-person posing
first-person ready
first-person throw-grenade
first-person reload-full

However, my question is this: What formats should I export some of the animations in and can anyone offer guidelines for Fp Animation? Also, what do these animations do:

first-person reload-full2 (Isn't there already one?)
first-person overlays

And is there any way to actually USE the remaining animations:

first-person light-off
first-person put-away
first-person stealth-melee

I don't think the last 3 are possible (except stealth-melee, which you can replace melee with), but what format should I export all of the animations?

Any help will be appreciated.

PS: I just remembered, are there any skinning tutorials available for Halo CE weapons? I have a grip on UVW Unwrapping but making textures is a nightmare for me.
Edited by shadowce9 on Mar 23, 2010 at 05:55 PM

You can also use JMA instead of JMM. Reload-full2 is supposed to be the reload-empty animation, I believe, except the original AR had no reload-empty animation.

I tried JMA and JMM, but for some reason JMA refuses to compile -_-. Also, when I tried to get my animations in-game using the HaloAnimationEditor, I get an unhandled exception (well, warning, and it gives like a paragraph of text related to the error along with the code) error whenever I try to replace more than one animation at a time. Is there a way to fix this?

You could use the animations you compiled as weapon animations.

Don't know if this would help, but I have a tutorial on you tube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbN554T597s


Hope it helps.

Through Open Sauce, Choking Victim of Zteam was able to activate the light animation, not sure about the put-away though.

first-person overlays (JMO) is a 10 frame animation, here's a textfile I have that explains it a bit:

Thank you for your replies, I will try making a first-person overlays animation later. As for arkaman, I used your tutorials to get me started fp animating in the first place. So, thanks for uploading those.