Editing Animation folder

[Tanauser]

I don't understand I think I'm lost ; whatever I rotate with the Right arm (hand , elbow , uperarm); the Gun comes with it...(its like if it was weld to the arm) I have tried to assign the gun again "Bone_weapon_weapon01 to musket ...it doesn't work


.I have to go back from the begining
1) Open the merge Ms3d file (with the animation) selecting 5 frames /second
2) Click on the anim button ? so the model get in position
3 ) selecting the R_elbow from the joint Tab (dble click)
4) click on the Rotate or move button from the model Tab to give the motion I search?
5 ) Save the frame animation by clicking on the set keyframe from the menu Animate

[KnightErrant]

Hi Tanauser,

That's how animation works, the gun IS welded to the right hand when it's assigned to it.
Every child of a joint moves when you rotate the parent. If you rotate bone_Rupperarm,
every vertex assigned to it, AND every vertex assigned to bone_Relbow and bone_Rhand move as well.
Think of you own arm as an example: if you are rigidly holding an object in your right hand,
it has to move when you bend any joint in your arm.
The bone_weapon bones are children of bone_Rhand so they also move.

[Tanauser]

I understand ; so there is no way to have the weapon still ....; I will have to play with both arms to get the closest to the effect ...Rotate UP with Right elbow and follow the movement with Left Clavical .....that will keep me busy for few hours
I made already an animation with No weapon (as I have deleted it before) ; I had the idea of merge it after the job but it didn't work ....the animation was trembling and GOM didn't like it at all

I can send you the file when I am done to have your opinion ?

[Tanauser]

It was finally shorter than what I have expected



a discreet movement from the wrist : I moved the Left elbow first than selected the rifle and rotate it counter-clockwise to make it appear still ... Now the file must go in a new folder containing all the animations of the musket LESS the reloading

[KnightErrant]

Ah excellent! It's not really hard once you get the hang
of it. I'm working on something else right at the moment.
I'll try to give you the rest of the steps tomorrow on getting
your modified animation in game. Once you've got the whole
procedure working, it really is just using the keyframer on each
animation you want to mod and voila! a custom animation family
for your bluecoats.

[Tanauser]

I'm just going guessing
I have extracted the modified animation from the Ms3d file under

USspanish_dragoon_lod0_animby.cas

Put it in a new folder

America/data/animations/Winch_HR_Mod/USspanish_dragoon_lod0_animby.cas
along with all the others from the same family -minus- the one I am replacing

that is "HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_release.cas" (this is the .cas I have modified) -minus the original reloading file (the one I don't want to see in the game by the top of the gun) that is :

anim attack_missile_reload data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_reload.cas -evt:data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_reload.evt

............................


I have 2 US blueCoats units
Cavalry gives , in modeldb
.....1 5 Horse 16 MTW2_HR_Arquebus 13 MTW2_HR_Sword 2 19 MTW2_Musket_Primary


Infantry gives:
...1 4 None 16 MTW2_Fast_Musket 20 MTW2_Non_Shield_Fast 1 19 MTW2_Musket_Primary 1 18 MTW2_Sword_Primary
so MTW2_HR_Arquebus and MTW2_Musket_Primary are the animation family

lets take the first one
if I open descr_skeleton.txt it gives for MTW2_HR_Arquebus


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type MTW2_HR_Arquebus
reference_points siege_engines/UnitModelsRefPoints/HR_Arquebus_Ref_Point.modelReferencePoints
parent MTW2_HR_Crossbow
no_deltas
in_awareness 135.0
in_zone 135.0
in_centre 45.0

;;; HR_Arquebus attacks


anim attack_missile_ready data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_ready.cas
anim attack_missile_hold data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_hold.cas
anim attack_missile_release data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_release.cas -evt:data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_release.evt

anim attack_missile_reload data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_reload.cas -evt:data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_reload.evt




;;; Weapon

type MTW2_HR_Arquebus_Primary
suppress_refpoints_warning
in_awareness 135.0
in_zone 135.0
in_centre 45.0

anim default data/animations/HR_Arquebus/weapon/w_HR_Arquebus_default.cas
anim stand_a_idle data/animations/HR_Arquebus/weapon/w_HR_Arquebus_default.cas

anim attack_missile_ready data/animations/HR_Arquebus/weapon/w_HR_Arquebus_default.cas
anim attack_missile_hold data/animations/HR_Arquebus/weapon/w_HR_Arquebus_default.cas
anim attack_missile_release data/animations/HR_Arquebus/weapon/w_HR_Arquebus_default.cas

anim attack_missile_reload data/animations/HR_Arquebus/weapon/w_HR_Arquebus_default.cas



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Just guessing
So now I should
replace

anim attack_missile_release data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_release.cas -evt:data/animations/HR_Arquebus/HR_Arquebus_attack_missile_release.evt

by my new animation USspanish_dragoon_lod0_animby.cas


but What about the .evt ? can I keep the same ?

Than I need to change that path in that descr_skeleton.txt
but if my file is in the America/Data folder is that OK ?
should I repack it or can I use the Animation from dl from TWC ?

[Tanauser]

Could you tell me if I need to repack ? ...and in which DATA folder (MTTW2 or AMERICA)