Hey guys, I have reached a point in the development of my map, Firefight-Descent, where I cannot continue without proper and working animations for a few things:

Phantom 1 - in/hover/out (for covenant drop)
Phantom 2 - in/hover/out (for covenant drop)
Phantom 3 - in/hover/out (for covenant drop)
Pelican - in/hover/out (for troop dropoff)
Pelican - in/hover/out (for player pickup)
Sparrowhawk - in/hover/out (for temporary player support)

I am really in need for these soon, or this map will go nowhere, as I am preparing for a lot of things during the late fall and early winter season.
Please, if anyone is willing to get these done for me soon, contact me on Xfire (MoooseGuy), or send me a PM. Thanks for your time.

Peace,
-MoooseGuy

I'm already doing them. Remember yesterday?

They didn't work...

if you need help getting animations ingame, talk to me.

i can make animations in flash cs4. private message if u need my help.
Edited by Jose on Nov 15, 2010 at 06:07 PM

I've always been really curious about how it works! Would you mind giving a brief general explanation??

you export the animation into a file using CAD's exporter, and then run it through tool into a tag format

bunch of stupid crap about proper hierarchy, getting your first animation in is like getting a hole in one on your first time golfing

A tag for a world-relative animation? I thought it was seperate from a vehicles model_animation_graph?

I R confused by this.

What tag format is it compiled into then?

don't know only done biped and fp

My small understanding is that it is seperate from the model animation graph and that it is added after. That unfortunately is nearly the extent of my knowledge in this matter and I can't seem to find a decent tutorial on the subject.

Yes.
Mooseguy, I'd appreciate it if we went over this together soon. Are you getting an error with the vehicle? Or is the animation not scripted right?

I'm really only familiar with getting 3p type things in game and playing them on models. This is more essential to sp, and I guess some novelty backround thing in multiplayer.

Out of all the animation export types, use jmw. It makes it world relative, playing it around the coordinates of your bsp, which is really useful for making other animations in sync with each other and the world.

.jmw format isn't shown in the export list, so you need to export as jmm and then rename the file extension to jmw in windows explorer (and yes they will still compile).

Use the tool command animations to compile them into a model_animations tag. Make sure the node list checksum is correct for whatever object your playing it on, and then you can use the script command "custom_animation" to run it in game, spaien, etc.

I animated and compiled these for him. It's possible that Mooseguy didn't change the checksums correctly.

I made some animes some time back but didn't really work on them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VM5Whgf1JY

Anyone want to guess what all parts moved?