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Dude
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:07 am    Post subject: Animation Reply with quote
I didnt know where to ask this really but...

What are people using to animate their games? im just wondering what good
thanks
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Jeroen
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
There are a number of 3D modellers out there that can also animate your models. The most popular lowcost modeller that can do animation probably is Milkshape. Others are Blender, CharacterFX and JTEdit. Of course, the bigger professional apps like 3dstudio, Lightwave etc all can do animation as well but are usually way to expensive for the hobby gamedeveloper.

DeleD can't do animation and I'm not sure if it ever will support it. I want more lowpolygon editing, lighting, CSG and texturing methods in there first and that's quite enough for me, given the limited amount of time I have. Wink
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Mr.Fletcher
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Blender can't do (bone-) animation either, afaik only it's intern animations.
I am using Milkshape, but if you are looking for a free animation tool, take a look at Anim8tor.
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Dude
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
any good milkshape animation tutorials out there?
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dirkk
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sure.

http://www.robsite.de/tutorials.php?tut=milkshape
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Dude
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sweet

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Dude
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
are they in english they look Germen or something?
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Dude
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
i got it sorry
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TheWraith
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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
what about hash animation master?
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Grandmaster B
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Blender can't do (bone-) animation either, afaik only it's intern animations.


Blender uses bones animation! I use Blender for character animation and export the result to my engine with a custom python script. Works fine, but writing the script was difficult as there are plenty pitfalls. Anyway, DirectX (X-file) exporting does also work for animations and is used widely. When you use Irrlicht or Ogre you're always fine with Blender!

Anim8or is nice, i used it for a long time. But its hard to get the animations into an engine, at least last time i checked. This may have changed with the scripting support. However, there seems to be no support and nobody i know of uses the animations in game development.

Another low-weight, no-cost animator is
Misfit Model 3D http://www.misfitcode.com/misfitmodel3d/.
If you like having the bare minimum!
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Paul-Jan
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Misfit Model 3D seems like a nice little package, thanks for the tip! However, it doesn't seem to export too many formats yet, hope that improves in the future.

The compile-your-own-plugins approach works well with programmers (especially given the cross-platform nature of the application), but I'm sure most artists will be at a loss there.
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Grandmaster B
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, he really should implement .X next! Maybe someone sends him a request Smile
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Starnick
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jeroen wrote:
There are a number of 3D modellers out there that can also animate your models. The most popular lowcost modeller that can do animation probably is Milkshape. Others are Blender, CharacterFX and JTEdit. Of course, the bigger professional apps like 3dstudio, Lightwave etc all can do animation as well but are usually way to expensive for the hobby gamedeveloper.

DeleD can't do animation and I'm not sure if it ever will support it. I want more lowpolygon editing, lighting, CSG and texturing methods in there first and that's quite enough for me, given the limited amount of time I have. Wink


If one day you guys could pull it off, you'd be loved by millions I'm sure Smile

And that misfit model 3d seems nice...but dang it doesn't support collada Sad
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