animations

[penguinman]

hello,

i would like to learn to make animations,

but i dont know if that is part of addon editing,

what program do i need to make animations?

ofpec dosent have an anim editing section?

thanks

[Kyle Sarnik]

Ask sanctuary or someone else that visits his thread at the BI Forums, its called OFP Animation Sharing Center.

[General Barron]

Yes, to create new animations, you need to create an addon. There is no way to include animations within your mission.pbo, just like there is no way to include new weapons or units in a mission.pbo.

There are two parts involved in creating an animation:

1) Making the .rtm (animation) file, and
2) Configuring the animation to work in OFP

For step #1, you will need ofpAnim, which can be found on ofpec here. Make sure to read my comments posted there for a quickie tutorial and links. Other commercial programs can also be used apparently, such as Maya, but I have never used those.

Unfortunately, step #2 is very different (and often very harder) than step #1. There aren't really any good, complete tutorials on how this is done, mostly because, well, nobody really knows much about it.

I'm currently working on a tutorial that includes everything I've figured out on my own. It's still a total work-in-progress, but if you want I could send it to you. That is, once you have progressed pass step #1 above.  

[penguinman]

sure! great,

i got ofp anim, and read your tut, but im still havin bits of trouble.

i would like to help you finish that tutorial, i think it would help me learn more then just reading it, i can type fast, and can translate into a few languages, german,  french and spanish. I know its not much to help you but i would like to, uve done alot for me. with all those scripts u made.

i think the tut should also, include the step #1 too. thats what im strugling with most right now, i dont get the part with making frames,

what i would really like is a step by step tut on how to make a complete anim.

like snypers tut for wrp edit.


i could help so tell me if u want me.

[penguinman]

hmm, i think i got an animation working, but how do you keep it from going underground.

[General Barron]

That's because when you start a brand-spankin' new animation, the guy starts halfway in the ground.

Select the abdomen from the components view. Then click on "edit frame", then click where it says "rotate". That should change to "move"; then slide the y bar to the right, and the whole guy should float upwards. The yellow grid is where the ground should be, so just plop his feet so they touch that.

In general I've found it easiest to start with a BIS animation, and modify that. That way most of the work is already done for you, and you don't have to mess with stuff like this.

[penguinman]

ok cool

but coud i see ur config tut, i made my anim but i dont know how to write the .cfg

[General Barron]

It's in the mail.

[remcen]

if anyone looks for a tut (not perfect, but a start):
http://ofp.gamezone.cz/_hosted/animcenter/
available in english, french and german.

[penguinman]

no matter what i write for the config, all it dose is make the guy jump around allot, could sombody plz look at it and see what kind of config to make,


i did exactly what the anim center tut said,  but it dosent work

plz help

thanks

[Planck]

Not an expert on animations but:

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class CfgMovesMC
{
class Default {};
class StandBase: Default {};
class My_First_Anim: StandBase
{
actions = StandTalkActions;
file="\ My_First_Anim \ My_First_Anim.rtm";
speed = 1.0;
looped=true;
soundEnabled=false;
interpolationSpeed=1;
connectFrom[]={Stand, 1, StandVar2, 1, StandVar3, 1};
connectTo[]={Stand, 1, StandVar2, 1, StandVar3, 1};
interpolateTo[]={StandDying,0.1,StandDyingVer2,0.1};
};
};

Change that bit in you config, all I did was remove:

class States
{

and the final '}'


Planck

[General Barron]

Nah. Change this line:

file="\ My_First_Anim \ My_First_Anim.rtm";

You don't have any spaces in your folder's name, or your .rtm file name, do you? Of course not, but for some reason you have spaces written in here. Also, you don't need quotes here. It should look like this:

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file=\FolderName\AnimName.rtm;So for you, it should be:

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file=\My_First_Anim\My_First_Anim.rtm;Also, your speed should be negative. Maybe it will work if it is positive, but all of BIS's anims have negative speeds:

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speed = -1.0;
BTW, did you get the tut I sent you? I mailed it to the email address listed in your profile.

[penguinman]

yep i got the tut, thank u very much,

but have u actualy looked at the anim i made to see,

i copied the ofpe anim center tut so thats why its named My_first_anim

i think the cfg needs to be diffrent depending on what type of anim it is, right?

what would the cfg for mine say.

the ofpe anim center tut is for a static anim, but mines moving.

[General Barron]

LOL! No, I actually didn't look at your animation before; I just corrected the obvious errors in your config. I just viewed the anim now, and it is pretty funny. I don't have much time to try and configure it for you, but I'd follow the advise in my tutorial:

Inherit from the closesest BIS animation, then change whatever properties you have to.

Your animation is a guy sorta flying forward and hitting the ground. It isn't really like any BIS animations, except possibly some of the death animations. Try inheriting from the running-dying animation, and see where that takes you. Make sure to try calling the anim in OFP with both "switchmove" and "playmove".

Animations are frustrating as hell to config, and I haven't gotten them entirely figured out myself.

[penguinman]

its suposed to be like if a grenade went off near sombody, then in stead of doing the cardboard thing it would flip.

thanks il try that