Like hes talking, ive tried for hours now messing with the animations and there doesnt seem to be a way. if anyone knows ,please tell me how to do it, id really appreciate it

you have to animate it in a 3d modeling program...?

Make sure the mouth is rigged to move.

what does that mean though, and how would I do it.

I do see a node called ponytail1, So how exactly do I switch an animation to make him talk, Like under the animations tag I see melee, and i switched it with stand talk, but now when I press melee he doesnt melee but he doesnt talk either

Edited by GoldeNTacO on Jul 2, 2010 at 08:09 PM

you misread, He does have ponytail1.

You need to rig the mouth's mesh to move with ponytail1.

How

Same way you move the other parts of the body...

*sigh* Modifiers>Skin>Edit Envelopes. There was another method but I forgot. Physiology, was it? Oh, and I think you might want to make a bone, not a node. Anyways I'm not good with bipeds.

After that, don't you think it's better to play around with 3ds max/gmax yourself? I mean you are very much free to search the internet, but your learning skills would be sharpened easier if you don't ask specific questions much and search for it yourself. /offtopic

so the only way to make the mouth move is to animate it in a 3d modeling program? i thought since the mouths move in the game i could just switch an animation around and make it move when i hit crouch or something. but so far it seems impossible

um lol no. if you thought it was easy you were sadly mistaken.

as i said in the first reply, you have to animate it in a 3D modeling program.
Edited by abkarch on Jul 6, 2010 at 07:52 PM

I tried switching crouch with "stand talk" and the mouth did move when i hit crouch, but the marines arms go out to the side like hes being frisked. if only i could figure out how to make him stand still while talking.....

I can read, But it doesnt make sense having to animate it in a 3d program when the animation is already in the game.

What biped are you using?

Also the animation is in the game for other bipeds Not all bipeds have the same animations, so the animations for a marine are vastly different from a sentinel or hunter.

ive been trying it with a crewman from A10 and some random marines from other maps. but every time it acts the same, i switch a animation with "stand talk" in the animations tag and the mouth moves but he puts his arms out like to the side, if only there was a way to stop him from moving his arms the animation would be fine. theres gotta be a way.....theres gotta be.