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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Rampage on June 11, 2003, 01:26:35 pm

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: Rampage on June 11, 2003, 01:26:35 pm

Dear FS2 Denizens:

Rampage has pumped out another tutorial!  This time I will teach the community how to make those horribly hard to make ship animations.

It's a hard job made easy.  Woomeister inspired me to write this tutorial after teaching me how to make animations in 3DS MAX two weeks ago.  I must not allow this knowledge to remain erudite but allow it to propagate into the minds of any and every FS2 MODder.

The tutorial can be found on Attempted Suicides (See Signature).

Sincerely,

Rampage

NOTE:  If you admins can broadcast this... And stickify this...

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: karajorma on June 11, 2003, 04:22:06 pm

This will be added to the FAQ :) Great work Rampage. Now I have to find a copy of 3Dmax to try it :)

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: Stunaep on June 12, 2003, 12:46:52 am

Mnyah, I prefer using MAX for everything in the animation (including wireframe/mesh translation, and the accompaning flash of light/thingy), but it's a preference I guess. My excuse is that I can't do SH1T in PSP

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: Rampage on June 12, 2003, 10:18:21 am

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Originally posted by Stunaep
Mnyah, I prefer using MAX for everything in the animation (including wireframe/mesh translation, and the accompaning flash of light/thingy)

How do you do that?  I would like to add that knowledge to my collective consciousness.

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: HotSnoJ on July 08, 2003, 10:08:55 am

Note to self: Get BG that :V: used and try to get a flash of light/thingy in the blender ani.

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: HotSnoJ on July 23, 2003, 11:05:42 am

:mad: WHERE IS ANIMTUT.ZIP! I must have it!

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: Solatar on August 19, 2003, 03:58:25 pm

Isn't that the interface stuff on the Scroll's site?

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: HotSnoJ on August 19, 2003, 05:47:04 pm

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Originally posted by Solatar
Isn't that the interface stuff on the Scroll's site?

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Originally posted by HotSnoJ
I thought there wouldn't be one with jsut the green BG so I made one.

If anyone is interested here it is.
(http://swooh.com/peon/hotsnoj/misc_images/ss_background.png)

From this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,16340.0.html)

With that BG I made a animated grid BG. If you're interested I'm going to upload it when I get back from vacation. I'll post links then.

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: magatsu1 on August 21, 2003, 03:17:09 pm

sorry to sound mega ignorant, but I didn't realise F/Space had that much in the way of animations.
aren't the ships just fixed models, bar the odd turret ?

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: HotSnoJ on August 21, 2003, 06:10:44 pm

no there are allot of animation/image stuff in it. FS does use the model for the techroom and the mission briefing when you click on an icon.

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: Setekh on October 18, 2003, 05:58:59 am

Rampage hasn't been around for a while - anyone feel like converting and submitting this tute to the HLP archive so we can unsticky this baby? (I'll probably end up doing it.) :)

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: HotSnoJ on October 18, 2003, 07:17:31 am

Then you must sticky mine. ;7

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,18012.0.html



:nervous:

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: Setekh on October 18, 2003, 09:25:02 am

Well, I wanted it in the tutes archive so that I could unsticky this one. :nervous: Yours, too. :)

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: HotSnoJ on October 18, 2003, 09:30:56 am

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Originally posted by Setekh
Well, I wanted it in the tutes archive so that I could unsticky this one. :nervous: Yours, too. :)

You want my tut in the HLP tut base-thing?

Well ok, but what do you want it coded like?

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: Setekh on October 30, 2003, 03:02:32 am

Actually, we could just link to it. :) Feel like logging in and submitting it yourself?

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/hlp/category_show.php?cat=34

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: HotSnoJ on October 30, 2003, 05:31:23 am

Sure I'll put the stuff together later today. :)

Title: Introduction to SS Animations Tutorial Released!
Post by: Setekh on June 30, 2004, 11:14:36 pm

This is in the HLP database now, so I'm unstickying this thread. :)

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/hlp/item_show.php?itm=560