Help with an anim

[Banzai!]

I have made an animation for a pikemen in milkshape.

I used MTW2_Pike_Advance as my starting point. However my modded animation seems to have kept the first frame of this animation, so each time it repeats the guy's pike flies upwards because that first keyframe is still there.

How do I delete this keyframe? I want the pikemen to begin over at my first keyframe not the vanilla first keyframe.

Here is a link to my .cas animation (bottom of first post in this thread: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=176070

Not quite sure how to post attachments in this forum.

[Ibrahim]

I dunno, but I'll look at it. but I have a question for you: can you export .CAS files? I really need help in that department.

[KnightErrant]

@Banzai,
Are you sure what you are seeing is real?
When I animmerge your animation with a unit
I see the glitch you describe but I think you just
have to edit the first edit box in the keyframer so that
the min frame is set to 1 instead of 0. In a hex editor
the .cas looks ok, each bone has 21 position and rotation
frames. Does the anim screw up in game?

[Banzai!]

I'll try it now KnightErrant. I haven't had internet access this past week so yeah.

EDIT: no I can't get it to work. I save with the min frame set to 1 and extract anim using your v1.1 animation utilities. When I merge again I keep getting that up pike glitch.

Also is there a quick way to append one animation to another one?

My Milkshape seems to have farked up and copy/set keyframes from two open windows no longer works.

[KnightErrant]

@Banzai,

You're not the first to ask about appending an animation to another one.
This could be done, can't really commit to it right now, too many things
going on. But I'll put it on the list.

But back to your problem. This is a guess but if you go to the first keyframe
and go to the animate menu item and get it's drop down menu, can you toggle
off the "operate on selected joints only" entry? This might be what is preventing
you from removing the bad keyframe that is messing up your animation. I think
the selected joint only option leaves the keyframe for other joints so you
aren't really getting rid of it. Unfortunately, there isn't a good way to check
keyframes in Milkshape to see what's there and what's not. Max has trackview
where you can see keyframes (and the non-keyframes between them) and that
let's you know if something is wrong. Maybe you can select bones and click
through the keyframer to check if they all have 19 or 21 keyframes and then
your anim will come out ok.

[Banzai!]

I found out how to get rid of the glitch at the start. You have to delete all keyframes first to reset where the animation segues to at the start. However since you can't copy/paste keyframes from other windows that makes modding existing animations damned difficult.