[Trivial Psychic]

Crud!  I hadn't thought of that.

[Bobboau]

well the problem with translation is, there is absolutely nothing in any of the code that suports it wich means I'll need to update not only the animation code to suport it, but also the rendering code and the (ugg...) colision code. as well as any other little tidbit of code that is any were remotely assosiated with anything to do with anything that might have a polymodle assosiated with it.

[FireCrack]

Just give everything that needs to move fore and back giant bendy arms.

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by StratComm
You're going to blow your subsystem-per-mission limit extremely quickly implimenting it like that.  Bad idea.

care to remind me what that is (how many) ?

[terren]

I can already see the macross transforming to 'battle' mode.

This animation thing is just so, unbelievable.

[Nuke]

you can fake a translation with two dummy subobjects. same as trivial psycic pointed out, but simpeler as you only need 2 dummy subobjects too pull it off. theres another way that is far simpler and that ive already used on the pf chimera. i will illustrate both meathods when i wright the wiki entry.

does the wiki support pics yet? because the techniques would be easyer to explain if i can show examples.

*edit, i have so many ships i forget what can do what

[Trivial Psychic]

Let me guess... instead of a bunch of small zig-zags, you just have a couple of realy big ones that are non-collidable and invisible.  Am I close?

[Nuke]

you are very close, you can glue a couple lights together and make a dummy object.  because theres no geometry there will be no colision detection data so it should work.

btw i just added the vwep wiki entry, grammer junkeys beware

the submodel animation entry needs some work, its not even named right, it should be called 'submodel animation' and not 'model translation', because to get translation you need to do some pretty fancy stuff, which the entry didnt document. i will fix this eventually and make a nicer one with pretty pictures that you could read to your kids.