Pelican Animations

[Hunter]

TheGhosts animation importer is not working for me, so I can't find out my self. Does anyone know the animations for the pelican.

E.g. The amount of frames for each animations. Like AdvanceBo did on halomaps.




Quote: --- Original message by: Advancebo
Primary Firing would be if you have barrels.
It would have the same amount of key frames as the number of barrels.
Exported as:
stand fixed fire-1.JMO


Secondary Firing would not be needed unless you plan on having an actual moving object for it.
Depends on what it is, if its a barrel like above or some complex firing mechanism.
Exported as:
stand fixed fire-2.JMO

Hatch opening can be any amount of keyframes you want.
Exported as:
stand opening.JMA - When you are exiting the vehicle
stand closing.JMA - When you are entering the vehicle

The opening and closing is coupled with "stand fixed idle.JMA", which tells what the vehicle is like when unoccupied.

Turning would be 3 frames.
0 - Default
1 - Turning Right
2 - Default
3 - Turning Left
Exported as:
vehicle steering.JMO

Accelerating has 3 main parts:
stand acc-left-right.JMO - What the vehicle does when turning left or right, such as on the Warthog's Chaingun.
stand acc-front-back.JMO - What the vehicle does when moving front or back, such as on the Warthog's Chaingun.
stand acc-up-down.JMO - What the vehicle does when moving up or down, such as on the Warthog's Chaingun.
Each has 3 keyframes, and they are in the order that it says:
0 - Default
1 - left/front/up
2 - Default
3 - right/back/down

Rolling is not needed.

Another animation you may need is "stand fixed aim-still", which defines where the vehicle's weapon can aim. The Warthog's Chaingun demonstrates that, where you can aim 360 degrees, but you cant aim straight up or straight down.
For a full 360 aiming:
0 - Default
1 - Aiming Backwards 180 degrees, and down.
2 - Aiming Right 90 degrees, and down.
3 - Aiming Forward 0 degrees, and down.
4 - Aiming Left 90 degrees, and down.
5 - Aiming Backwards 180 degrees, and down.
6 - Aiming Backwards 180 degrees, at normal.
7 - Aiming Right 90 degrees, at normal.
8 - Aiming Forward 0 degrees, at normal.
9 - Aiming Left 90 degrees, at normal.
10 - Aiming Backwards 180 degrees, at normal.
11 - Aiming Backwards 180 degrees, and up.
12 - Aiming Right 90 degrees, and up.
13 - Aiming Forward 0 degrees, and up.
14 - Aiming Left 90 degrees, and up.
15 - Aiming Backwards 180 degrees, and up.
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For 180 degrees aiming:
0 - Default
1 - Aiming Right degrees, down.
2 - Aiming Forward 0 degrees, down.
3 - Aiming Left , down.
4 - Aiming Right degrees, normal.
5 - Aiming Forward 0 degrees, normal.
6 - Aiming Left , normal.
7 - Aiming Right degrees, up.
8 - Aiming Forward 0 degrees, up.
9 - Aiming Left , up.
Export both as:
stand fixed aim-still.JMO

For the actual landing gear coming out:
Suspension Animations.
Depending on where each suspension is, such as the Warthog and Scorpion has 4, but the Pelican has 3, you name each on differently.
0 - Default
1 - Extended Down
2 - Extended Up
Then you export it for the location each suspension each. You have to make one for each suspension there is, the Warthog has 4 suspension animations, the Pelican has 3.
So export as:
suspension front.JMO - For the wheel
suspension left back.JMO - For the left beam
suspension right back.JMO - For the right beam.


Hope this helps.



Like that ^

[bobsam]

Sorry Shadow I didn't mean to make yuo made I just kinda got lost in what he was saying...

[ShadowSpartan]

mhmm....:confused2:
If you can not help him, then don't bother posting. Posts like that really annoy me.

Hunter, how is the Animation Importer not working? Does it return an error upon startup?

[Hunter]

It highlights part of the code. I will post what it highlights late, my mum is on the computer at the moment.

[Hunter]

Error Message:

-- Unable to convert: 1.0 to type: Point3

Highlighted Code:

in coordsys parent node_array[n].scale = 1.0

[CodeBrain]

Not sure what I am talking about, but could it be a parent node not having/having invalid vertex weights?

Sorry if that isn't even close to the error, I am trying to solve errors like these.

[Choking Victim]

The problem is that 1.0 isn't a "point3" value (a set of 3 values) you can try changing


in coordsys parent node_array[n].scale = 1.0

To


in coordsys parent node_array[n].scale = [1.0,1.0,1.0]

But frankly, I haven't looked at it myself.

[Hunter]

The problem is that 1.0 isn't a "point3" value (a set of 3 values) you can try changing


in coordsys parent node_array[n].scale = 1.0 To


in coordsys parent node_array[n].scale = [1.0,1.0,1.0]But frankly, I haven't looked at it myself.

That works, Thanks.

[Hunter]

### stand fixed idle.JMA
### suspension front.JMA
### suspension left back.JMA
### suspension right back.JMA
### vehicle steering.JMA
### vehicle velocity.JMA
the animation 'vehicle steering' must be an overlay.
the animation 'vehicle velocity' must be an overlay.

model animation compression saved 0 bytes


Is that right? Should the vehicle steering be an overlay?

[Advancebo]

Yes.