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I am making a new ship for my level and i have a question relating to the animation of vehicles.
A CIS ship of some sort:

for it to work do i have it in landed state(landing gear out) or how it would be flying?
Then how do i get the animation in game?
Also would some one be able to export for me? Please, i hope to get this and another vehicle into a map for the GT Mappack 4 Comp.

EDIT:I may need to ask for help with skinning too

There is a tutorial on vehicle animations in the tutorials thread stickey.

OK, But Please could someone export (and/or) skin the vehicle for me?

have you merged your polymeh yet?
and have you added pilot_hp's, damage hp's and other things?

Not yet, ill do that last. I found a good way to skin so ill do that then animate. After that i need someone to export it for me.

I will more than happily export for you, simply after you are done export it to .xsi and send it to me via xfire.

Thank you very, very much. Ill send it tommorow. You can use it if you want.

pilot hps arent needed unless its something where the pilot is actually visible, best to just hide the pilot via the odf file and save some objects in the scene.

It says imn the Vehicle setup tut that it needs to be a single mesh. Does it have to be because if it is i cant get the textures to work.

all the games meshes were single meshes and were enveloped, the animator i talked to from pandemic and bconstructor proved it. yours can be multiple but the documentation and animator say its best to keep it a single mesh, its supposed to use less memory but it does have to be enveloped.

I sure love reading your 'speeches', fred!

I guess Mini and I were thinking of the Source engine... in there it cost less memory and in Source vertex-animation requires more memory.. but less CPU

Anyone's got some questions for the long post?

I have enveloped it, most of the parts of this are quite simple, not too many polys hopefully. I only have 3 bones: front leg and each wing. I have removed envelopes from all the parts i dont want to move is this OK.

Also i have retextured it now:

that texture looks better definately an improvement

What's with the Nurbs..?

MasterYoda, what's the next step..?

NURBS??? :
I have now done the hardpoints and im animating it now. At the moment im having problems with a wing bending when i try to rotate.

Ok, but what are NURBs, i didnt know there were any in my model?

Noooo! I just realised the ship is backwards in XSI, Ive enveloped and animated now, theres no way to rotate it!

How are you getting it into your level? If you're placing the vehicle rotate it in Zeroeditor and if you're spawning it with a vehicle spawn, rotate the spawn.

Oh, sorry about that double post.

If i rotate it in ZE wont it still fly backwards?

you confuse me xD

And I asked about the Nurbs because I think it looks like you've built it pon Nurbs... Might jsut be me xD

Nurbs is basically the same as any other mesh, but it's calculated in curves... which makes it round even if there's barely any polygons I hate Nurbs, though <.<