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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: dragonsniper on March 07, 2009, 10:21:48 pm

Title: ANI in-game?
Post by: dragonsniper on March 07, 2009, 10:21:48 pm

Is there the possibility that you could get an .ani file to play while in the middle of a mission? The .ani could show a lot of different things, but is it possible, and if so, how long would it take to plant into FRED or the FS engine?

Title: Re: ANI in-game?
Post by: Dilmah G on March 07, 2009, 10:23:22 pm

You could just use it as a persona ani couldn't you?

Title: Re: ANI in-game?
Post by: dragonsniper on March 07, 2009, 10:34:53 pm

I'm talking for a big planet explosion in the background or something like that.

Title: Re: ANI in-game?
Post by: Dilmah G on March 07, 2009, 10:35:57 pm

Quote from: dragonsniper on March 07, 2009, 10:34:53 pm

I'm talking for a big planet explosion in the background or something like that.

Oh Okay. Hmmmm, what format are the in-game explosions? If it was possible to convert the .ani to that format it could work

Title: Re: ANI in-game?
Post by: Droid803 on March 07, 2009, 10:46:57 pm

Retail explosions are *.ani, Mvps are *.eff (with the frames being in *.dds mostly)

Title: Re: ANI in-game?
Post by: Dilmah G on March 07, 2009, 10:57:26 pm

Then it should be useable then shouldn't it?

Title: Re: ANI in-game?
Post by: dragonsniper on March 07, 2009, 11:11:42 pm

Should be, maybe. But how is my question?

Title: Re: ANI in-game?
Post by: dragonsniper on March 07, 2009, 11:14:04 pm

Quote from: Droid803 on March 07, 2009, 10:46:57 pm

Retail explosions are *.ani, Mvps are *.eff (with the frames being in *.dds mostly)

Is there a tutorial on this kind of stuff? It would be cool to know (for me anyhow) and I need to learn it for upcoming stuff.

Title: Re: ANI in-game?
Post by: Galemp on March 08, 2009, 12:38:29 am

Well, there are SEXPs to create an explosion effect at a certain location. If you can specify the ANI file there, that might work.