To animate separate parts of a biped animation..., do you use frames for the parts of the model like you do with weapon animating? (Such as a jetpack biped)

same idea,l the movement in the frames is what makes up the whole animation.

Except you don't use "frame" frames in bipeds, they're "bip01" frames which are really called bones.

Frames are nodes and bip01s are bones.

However if you add a jetpack to a biped, the jetpack should use a node while the biped should keep its bones.

Remember to always import a biped with the "import biped nodes as bones" box checked in gbxmodelimporter v2.

that was good info for me too, thanks man.
i was thinking did he mean the smoothness of the animation, using the animation slider bar.
Edited by ally on May 9, 2012 at 08:23 AM

I kinda need some help... adding bones to a jetpack...

woah wait a minute. So you're saying frame nodes = bones?

Yes. However, bones are limited to the position they are in when linked to a parent bone. You can say that able to move freely in x,y,z, even when linked to another frame node whereas a child bone is locked to the position of it's parent bone, where only rotations and scaling can happen.

So I just add frame nodes to the jetpack meshes, and animate? And what should I name the nodes?
Edited by Spartan314 on May 26, 2012 at 06:16 AM

node names start with frame and biped bones start with bip01. You can name the nodes anything you want as long as it starts with frame;

e.g.

frame jetpack

Sweet. So it is sorta like weapon animating.. Thanks guys. I'm gonna get to work.