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Gmax characters rigged/skinned

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bob5568

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Hi gang, recently learned to rig and skin a character...animations look fab in gmax...yet in flightsim...nothing. No animations appear.

Can anyone say if they've been successful getting character animation to appear in fs using a rigged (boned) and skinned character?

Bob B
 
Bob,

FS dosen't yet support vertex level animations, only object level. The only thing you can do with a rigged character in FS is pose it in the design program and then export the posed mesh. Otherwise you have to break the character down in to individual parts and animate the axis of each part so unless you very carefully cap and texture the joints between two objects you can end up with what I call light leaks.

Lou
 
Thanks Lou for your quick answer. I was afraid of that! Too bad too, cuz its a blast to animate the character using the dummys at the hands/feet/and torso.

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Actually... It is possible using IK.

I have been working with Char Studio and have managed to get a walking figure into FS. It is still a work in progress :)
 
No Fair

No Fair...Nick gets to play with better toys....
I priced character studio...its now bundled with max7...only a cool $3500 at discreet.

Waaaaaaa

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