I know there's one from the "forgotten exile" maps, stkft_v1, but it doesn't have proper 3p animations for melee or throwing grenades, etc. The melee is the big one, but I'm no good at animating or modeling, so I was wondering if there are pre-existing tags that are flood, but rigged to be fully playable in MP, similar to the elite_v2 playable biped that was released a while back?

You can make it by replacing the animation with .JMR anims and deleting keyframe on the legs
you would have something like this in the end (last half of video : http://fr.xfire.com/video/5ecaf3/ )
Edited by bourrin33 on Nov 16, 2014 at 05:55 PM

Gonna have to dumb that down for me, I have 0 experience animating or modeling at all. What is a .JMR anim? (I know it's a format of some kind, but how do I go about obtaining one) What is a keyframe, and how do I delete it on the legs?

Thanks for the reply, though

1) Import GBXmodel in max (bones or nodes as you want)
2) Use animation importer to get the flood melee
3) select legs bones, then select the colored things in the time bar (the bar where there is 0-100 usually, under viewports) on the entire anim and delete them
4) attempt to adjust animations for the other bones
5)Export in a new model anim, compile as a tag (adapt checksum in the tag if needed)
6)Use the animation injector to change melee and inject the newly made one
7)open in guerilla and add the melee animation in the weapon label section as melee (investigate to understand how it works)
8)profit

Yeah, something tells me that those seemingly simply 7 steps there require weeks of back-end modeling tutorials and learning how to animate in the first place...

You talk about "attempt to adjust animations for the other bones" like that's a 30 second process. I don't even know how animations work, other than they are changes in a model's structure over time.

In short, this list is a good list for someone who already knows how to do all of this, as you do. This is a very bad list for someone who knows extremely little about the subject. It seems so far that with my current skillset, the cost in time from digging through countless tutorials to find the right snippets of what I need, plus the time spent getting it all together, are much higher than I'm willing to spend. I spend way too much time tinkering with halo as it is :P


PS you forgot the

6.5) ?????

step

6.5 would be exporting the file. Oh and there is nothing to create from scratch actually.
I'll try to explain better later

I absolutely am willing to learn, this is just way over my head at the moment. Installing 3DS 2010 now though

STOP.

Kill the autodesk installer app via task manager.

Open up google chrome in incognito mode, and go here: http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/3ds-max