Jammin'

Post by **Z-trooper** » 2009-06-02 06:58

Jammin' with animations

I've been doing animations for a while now, but never really bothered to learn setting them up for BF2 or exporting them. Had a nice little chat with the Chuc'ster about it and now I should be able to act as his lil' sidekick when/if he needs an extra set of hands.

//awww youtube killed my Bob Marley music

**Disclaimer**
There is no jam feature - this animation was a test to feel out the art of weapon animations. Could be used as an idle animation I guess, but the point here is that it was a quick test, nothing more.

I'll throw up some ingame fottage when I sort out my editor. (it is currently giving me hell, as it does from time to time...)

I'm sure you will see a few of my animations in the future, but probably not before late 0.9 or beyond.

See ya guys!

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2009-06-02 08:33

Yeah don't put any known music on YT videos, there's loads of copyright stuff on there just waiting to nerf your video.

=Romagnolo= · Post by **=Romagnolo=** » 2009-06-02 17:57

Nothing bad, nothing bad at all ! It's really good to know that the team may have one more animator.

WilsonPL · Post by **WilsonPL** » 2009-06-02 20:14

animating HMGs on trucks etc, what bout that?

Post by **Rudd** » 2009-06-02 21:34

thats nice mate, can I ask what Chuc is going on about when he says 3p animations are so hard? you seem to have it down mate

Post by **Z-trooper** » 2009-06-03 02:25

Well, 3p animations are pretty darn hard, even for the mighty Chuc. It is not just a couple of arms and a weapon, but a whole human body that has to act naturally - small mistakes will easily be picked up by the human eye.

Also much of the 3p work would revolve around something like walk cycles, wich are a pain in the *** to get right, even if it is a single step.
However, I will be rigging up a 3p player model for chuc, so that we can work more easily on 3p animations, but it will be a bit into the future for sure.

Post by **Chuc** » 2009-06-03 15:20

Thumbs up bro

Post by **Z-trooper** » 2009-06-03 16:19

yea, well I am not completly happy with it yet. Needs better timing, speed and more roughness, but then again it was just a quickie. Looking forward to messing with this some more when I've completed more of my modeling tasks

ReadMenace · Post by **ReadMenace** » 2009-06-03 18:30

The safety is still on Z! STILL ON!

_Read

Post by **Chuc** » 2009-06-04 04:41

The safety isn't separated for animation so its always locked on safe ;(