Hi there. Odstmt really needs some animators for cutscenes, and dropship anims and probly weapon animations too. We also need a rigger to fix our odst bipeds. Mastur cheef, pics?

I think we agreed on getting rid of the head and giving them all helmets

Which I am doing... Just give me time ok?

I am going to completely rerip everything.

I think you guys saw my masterchief =3


Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Mar 5, 2011 at 04:13 PM

I can do whatever you guys need. I'm an advanced "generalist" as yakz calls it.

Umm...ok then. Are u going to use the characters own helmet or just a normal odst helmet? Cos their own helmets would be way better

do something that hasn't already been done and maybe someone will consider it. all I'm seing are completely uninspired ports done by people who probably have no artistic talent or originality. ported content from other halo games has been around for years

does anyone else have something to post that will actually contribute to the success of making these bipeds??

finally an h3 model that doesn't look like a plastic action figure.

Pretty much, considering we want these bipeds to work and for people not to tell us to scrap the bipeds cos they have been around for a few years

hater.
Edited by AGLion on Mar 5, 2011 at 06:35 PM

welp, in that case, don't expect many people to be terribly interested

All i needed for the bipeds was one person which i have found. Can anyone help with cutscenes and dropship anims, especially dropship anims?

By dropship anims i mean recorded animations of dropships dropping off troops then flying away

-Use a bsp converter to convert a scenario_structure_bsp into an obj (or, if you made the map, just use the map's model in max)
-Use the gbxmodel importer to import the gbxmodel of the vehicle you want to animate
-Freeze everything but the frames (if you made the map, delete the frame for the bsp you made)
-Animate the frames along the timeline using 3dsmax
-Set the length of the animation with the buttoned called 'time configuration' at the bottom
-Go to the start of the timeline, move/rotate the frame of the dropship
-Press N
-Go to the middle of the timeline, set the move/rotate again for the main node/frame of the dropship
-Go to the end and move/rotate the frame of the dropship to its end position.
-Use an animation exporter to export the frame animations as a .jmw (.jma, .jmm, .jmo or whatever for other kinds of animations)
-Compile the model_animations
If:
data\ cinematics\a30phantom\animations\fly-in.jmw
then enter:
tool animations cinematics\a30phantom
-Use kornmann's guerilla to open up the animations tag you made AND the gbxmodel of the vehicle you used
-Scroll to the bottom and copy the node list checksum, paste it into the gbxmodel's checksum and save
-Set the vehicle tag to use your animation graph as its animations and save
-In sapien, add the vehicle and name it something
-In sapien, add a flag-marker
-In an hsc script, script the dropship to object_create_anew, then teleport to the flag, then run the custom_animation command
(custom_animation nameofvehicle cinematics\a30phantom\a30phantom "fly-in" 1)
-Ctrl+shift+C, save, compile, play blah blah etc etc