I'm trying to make a hover vehicle with the clone commando model and animations, no crash, but the vehicle doesn't appear... I changed the msh lines to read the commando's msh, replaced the animations, commented out the fire points and weapons, etc. But still the vehicle doesn't appear, the error log says that the exp can't be found, might that be it? Thanks in advanced, as always

P.S. I have ready Superm9's topic on making Obi-Wan a walker, so I'm certain you can get a hover vehicle to use a unit's model and animations.

I thought you couldn't get units as vehicles. Which topic of Superm9's is this? Could you provide a link? Searching the forums for "Obi-wan" with Superm9 as the author didn't get me any results.

forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=18497&p=319 ... er#p319761 There you go

Ah, I remember that. I think FragMe mentioned that you'd have to edit the anims in XSI.

FragMe! wrote:Now if you were to edit the Obiwan pose in XSI to something pleasing you could probably make him into a hover vehicle, no bones about it

yes,
you just give your vehilce the units odf thats all

but the unit will allways have arms and legst stretched if you dont import it in xsi pose it differnetly and reexport or make a 9pose anim for it

DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:yes,
you just give your vehilce the units odf thats all

What do you mean by that?

my bad i meant msh, sorry

What about when it comes to animations though?

what do you mean?

Super_Clone wrote:What about when it comes to animations though?

You cannot use the regular Obiwan animations, meaning no jumping, running rolling etc.

What you may be able to use is for the 9pose animations (or finanimations as they are sometimes called) Example from the barcspeeder.

AnimationName = "rep_hover_barcspeeder"
FinAnimation = "barcspeeder_9pose"

so try something like

AnimationName = "human_4"
FinAnimation = "human_barc_9pose"

That may get it in game but there might be not too much movement.

*you may or may not need the human in the human_barc_9pose

Super_Clone wrote:P.S. I have ready Superm9's topic on making Obi-Wan a walker, so I'm certain you can get a hover vehicle to use a unit's model and animations.

The part that you really should've paid attention to was the last post:

Superm9 wrote:Yeah, I managed to get a player model as a hover vehicle easy... it just isn't the effect I was looking for.

Yeah, the effect was a hovering player model in the basepose (arms outstretched, legs straight (the pose seen in the meshviewer))... everything worked, it just looked really bad.

And a player model as a walker vehicle is almost flat-out impossible without creating an entire new group of walker-type animations with playermodels in mind - very hard. I did have mild (and very strange) success in using a player model with the origional walker animations - it looked very funny seeing Obi-Wan's model stretched out over the skeleton of an AT-RT

But yeah, playermodels as vehicles have been attempted, but you either end up with an impossibly difficult project or a really weird result.

Good luck!

Ok, now I have more vehicle issues, My vehicle for my DMI lot isn't appearing, All it is is a hexed Rep Commando Shuttle for a new texture, and I rigged it up to be a hover vehicle, heres my ODF:
And heres the error log parts relevant to said vehicle: Both are Sev 2's so I'm assuming that they couldn't / shouldn't not allow the vehicle to show up.

How did you add the vehicle? Did you place it itself or use a vehicle spawn?

Tried both, neither worked, heres the updated error log: About the new CP error, it says its not there for the vehicle spawn, but yet it is..

Super_Clone wrote:Tried both, neither worked, heres the updated error log:

Hidden/Spoiler:

Message Severity: 2
C:\Battlefront2\main\Battlefront2\Source\EntityGeometry.cpp(1073)
Entity "rep_hover_trans" unknown vehicle collision "p_vehiclesphere"

Message Severity: 2
C:\Battlefront2\main\Battlefront2\Source\EntityGeometry.cpp(1058)
Entity "rep_hover_trans" unknown terrain collision "collision"

Message Severity: 2
C:\Battlefront2\main\Battlefront2\Source\EntityGeometry.cpp(1065)
Entity "rep_hover_trans" unknown building collision "collision"

Message Severity: 3
C:\Battlefront2\main\Battlefront2\Source\VehicleSpawn.cpp(135)
Vehicle spawn missing command post "cp1"

About the new CP error, it says its not there for the vehicle spawn, but yet it is..

Does it have a control region?

Oh, and I'm pretty sure you should be placing your vehicles directly for DMI, not using vehicle spawns.