Basics of Animation

[Tarzan]

I'm trying to learn how to animate models - specifically robotic arms (some of you from halomaps have prolly seen the models). Anyway - I linked the arms together in a tree, and got the pivot points to the right places. But now I'm kinda lost. I would assume that there's some tutorials on this such as offspring's animated scenery tutorial... But to make it sync, it needs to be a device machine, and I have no idea how to create those...

So... where do I start with all this?

[malolo420]

For devices just export as "device position.JMO."

Then you can pretty much just look at bungies doors to see how the device_machine tag is setup.

[Tarzan]

ok - so do I need two animations for the arms opening and closing? or can I just play the same animation backwards? And will the HAX exporter do JMO files?

[Ki11a_FTW]

No. device possision.JMO uses an Overlay because it uses the same anim for open and close, except it closes in reverse.