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is it possible to animate a vehicle to move or do something when it fires??
Since I cant make a large character (no help so far) I'll just make it into a walker that whan it fires it is animated like a soldier

Battleffront_Conquer wrote:Since I cant make a large character (no help so far)

Did you check the FAQs like this one Scaling up animation

yeah I have I've done everything I can think of... Im trying right now to see if turning it into an "acklay" will work but for some reason None of the primitives are even working... I mean the acklay has primitives, I dont know exactly what to do is the problem

what primitives are you talking about?

it has collision primitives in its model.... and Im trying to mimic it but I have come up dry.... if I try to use soldier collision the collision is all screwy and too small but I dont want to make the character smaller because then I'd have to scale everyone else down

i doubt that collisionprimitives work on soldiers

DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:i doubt that collisionprimitives work on soldiers

then is there any other possible way to create this character???

there are people who successfully scaled characters without collisionproblems
but maybe it doesnt work anymore when the factor is too high

DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:there are people who successfully scaled characters without collisionproblems
but maybe it doesnt work anymore when the factor is too high

dang
is it possible to make an animation for a vehicle when you fire?

no, you can only make takeoff and finanimations (see topics linked in the tutorialthread)

how about can I make a walker jump?
I figure I can at least work with that.....

also then how does the acklay's collision work ( if you now)

walkers cant jump they have hardcoded states you cant edit (theres a table with the states on psych0freds website)
the acklay has just a big skeleton

so what you are telling me is that there is absolutely no way for me to create accurate collision without making it look like a walking zombie?

Dang.......... and I had high hopes for this

how can they look like a walking zombie?

a walking character with no other animations other than walk.... sounds like a zombie to me... but thats beside the point....

I figure I could just leave that character (along with a few others) out of this mod

What unit are you trying to scale up?
Going about 2X is the most you should ever go and even then that is stretching it

And as was pointed out for vechicles, hovers and some flyers you can have 9pose or finanimations which only come into play as you move forward, backward and side to side etc.

Walkers have a very specific set of animations none of which are weapon fire related

Oh and from personal experience the acklay does not scale well.

FragMe! wrote:
Oh and from personal experience the acklay does not scale well.

I wasnt trying to scale it... I was using it as a reference to set up collision for soft bodied objects.... when I open it with ultimate unwrap, or whatever, it says "p_-btv-base" along with other primitive collision names... I'm going to halt my efforts for now but if anyone can help explain this better that would be greatly appreciated

Battleffront_Conquer wrote:

FragMe! wrote:
Oh and from personal experience the acklay does not scale well.

I wasnt trying to scale it... I was using it as a reference to set up collision for soft bodied objects.... when I open it with ultimate unwrap, or whatever, it says "p_-btv-base" along with other primitive collision names... I'm going to halt my efforts for now but if anyone can help explain this better that would be greatly appreciated

I get the feeling that the Acklay was Pandemic's "just make it work" unit; I think they probably tried a lot of things on it and just went with whatever made the unit function as desired - there's probably a lot of junk left in there that's redundant/unnecessary. You can probably ignore that as an example for the most part.

Or I could be wrong, who knows.

Maveritchell wrote: Or I could be wrong, who knows.

its this part I am hoping for

As Mav mentioned it was probably a hack together job by Pandemic. A combination of unit and walker that it why it has the collision primitives.
If you want to see which collisions are in use for the acklay run the bfmodtools.exe and then call up the fake console and turn on the collision renders then go to free cam and go up to an acklay and it will show you which if any of the collision primitves it uses.

This still may not help you in your task, because if you look at the acklay odf you will see the parameter IsAcklay = 1 which is obviously something pandemic needed to put in for the game to make the acklay work correctly.