NEW ANIMATIONS ARE POSSIBLE!!!!

[Sarge6754]

A while ago, I noticed that this one new OFP mod could create new animations for flashpoint, it was some ww2 pacific mod. Anyway, the screenshots were amazing! It looked like another game! I don't want ww2 units with better animations than every other unit! Some one should design a universal addon animation system. I hate, absolutely hate the retarted animations in OFP right now. I don't think that it would be too hard to do a number of other things either, like better looking trees, that maybe, sway in the wind, but the Frame rate wouldn't go down because of it, because they would only sway at a certain distance away from the player (LOD thing). Did you ever notice how the men in OFP have the butt of their guns resting on their upper arms, below the shoulder! If it were real life, there would be a helluva lot more wounded showing up in those medical tents. I would really really like for some talented animators/add-on makers to read this, if you know someone who does make add-ons, tell them about this! And if BIS is reading, incorporate this into FLASHPOINT 2!!!!!!!!! Ragdoll physics would be a real nice treat for OFP 1, and is definitely needed in OFP 2. Sorry about the long post, but I really needed to say this, OFP is my favorite game but it has crap for graphical presentation!!!! If anyone agrees with me, REPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanx

[Kuro]

Hallo Sarge,

i certainly agree that OFP is a great game and the grafics can be improved. But instead of making such lame postings about how bad the animations in OFP are. Do something !

ftp://www.gamezone.cz/ofpd/utils/OFPAnim_0.93_full.zip

Under this URL you can find the tool, with which the Animantions can be changed.
I am looking forward to your first animation package !

Greetings
Kuro
Don't ask what the OFP Community can do for you, ask what you can do for the OFP Community ! Thanx

[BronzeEagle]

Hey, if I were an animator the first thing I'd do would be to make sword animations.  Then I'd move onto jumping animations.  Then leaning with my back against the wall while I aim my gun around.  Then maybe with a turn of the mouse I'd lean around that corner with my back against the wall.  Then I'd jump to the top of a wall and pull myself over.  That's what I'd make with animations but more importantly I'd make sword animations.  I'd create a ninja army.  I'd even animate throwing stars.  

[Vyper]

Bad thing about new animations is alot wont work...aparently you can't map new keys to animations so jump wouldn't work unless it over wrote crouch or something....i'm not even sure that would work..

And hand to hand combat would be really bad with the current physics engine, collisions are shocking so in a sword fight somebody might just fly backwards for no reason...

remember it was designed to be a modern military sim...not a medieval!

Vyper

[bigdog632]

Bad thing about new animations is alot wont work...aparently you can't map new keys to animations so jump wouldn't work unless it over wrote crouch or something....i'm not even sure that would work..

forgive me for adding this but i think this game is better without jump it is a lil less realistic but bunnyhopping down the middle of a battlfield is not too realistic either

[swift88]

yeah but not many ppl use the walk key (F)

[Mr_Shady]

I use it a lot actually  

[swift88]

geeeeeee with that last comment, it shows that im not too much of a infantry man..................I myself am a heli ops' and tanks

[Vyper]

You know i didn't even know there was a walk key to be hounest...

Vyper

[bigdog632]

either did i

[Messiah]

its very handy.... ever ran around a corner only to b gnned down because of your headless chicken routine? very usefull for those situations...

AI use it well too... set a squad on 'combat' and the slow walking half crouched, gun raised anim is the walking... AI do combat v well actually - they provide cover... have point men that are sent out and go prone... then the rest follow crouching every so often to scan the horizon... and one follows, guarding the rear  

[bigdog632]

i guess i didnt know it cuz i have a diff key for it lol
anyway i like the ai doing that routine cuz everytime they crouch and scan i shoot them

[O Neil]

" headless chicken routine?"

Lol, you know, this thread is pretty......funny, but off topic, I say that to warn you cause soon some moderator will come and say that, then lock this comvo.

Lol, soz to sound all official and everything, just this convo sounds funny sh|t, so I might as well say something to

O'Neil

PS: And straighten those legs up gentlemen !!!