[TrashMan]

K I'm thinking of making a whole bunch of those, by main stealing from Starlancer and Nexus (both have really good head anis)

That is once I get a hold of the original files.. Starlancer CD is damaged and I can't find my Nexus CD..

One thing I wanted to do - use hte hallfight animation to make a few head ani's for marines.

Basicly I though of using 2-3 second from the scene where the tam lead talk with command (and puts his hand on the earpeace of hte helmet), cut those 3 seconds out and then cut jsut the head and some small part out of it.

So, I ask those wo work with video files and ani's all the time - whats hte best program and procedure to do this?

Oh, and coudl you do it so that I don't have to

[Darius]

Mine was a complicated procedure that involved converting the movie to a useable format (MPEG or AVI, can't remember which one exactly) and then using a slicing program to export single frames. After that, it was a case of converting them to the same palette as the ones FS2 uses and saving it as an ANI using ANIBUILDER.

All of these programs, unfortunately, are on another computer, so a trip to retrieve those is in order methinks.

[diceman111]

All of these programs, unfortunately, are on another computer, so a trip to retrieve those is in order methinks.

Do you remeber what programs it was

[Eviscerator]

This is an excellant idea. I will participate as soon as I get my primary rig rebuilt ( a few more days ).

I always used two ancient utilities called Bink and Smacker. They are game tools that will allow you to break video into frames, save the frames in whatever format you choose, then tie em up again. Used in conjuction with PS or PSP, and ANIBUILDER for clean up and final product construction.

It worked quite well for modding video from old games like Starsiege, Imperium Galactica II, etc.

[TrashMan]

Bink you say? Heard of that..

Well yeah, the current ani selection is rather meager...would be cool if we could make sorta a combined persona ani pack with as much of them as possible and put it up for public use.

speaking of which - any limit on the number of head anis?

[Eviscerator]

I do not know of any limits.

I would try using Smacker before you get into Bink. Smacker is easier to get used to, and it has been around in various forms from the developer since before WC1. Heck, IIRC WC1 actually used Smacker. The tools, and many others they have developed, are FREE and can easily be found on Google.

There is a whole package of tools that they have called Rad Game Tools. Again, free.