BLA... Blends..<<< needs help

[D.C. Darkling]

Ok.. I desided to put this seperate.. Cause I really like to know.

HT hell do you use blends.

Pls post any info you know on it.. Don't care how little.. i need blend info bad.

probably won't make the version i am working on now.

 

[Iyce Da Kidd]

um i usually use the smudge and blur tools to blend em together

 

[D.C. Darkling]

I am currently talking bout animations.


>ANYONE?.. <

 

[Sin Goku]

Ehm...

Make one animation, like holding a gun parallel to teh ground. Then change the spine bone's rotation so he looks up with the gun. Do the same for looking down. Export looking up and won as seperate smds, up.smd and down.smd or such. Now if you want this anim ingame, use it like

$sequence "hmg_look" "up" "down" blend XR -90 90 fps 30 loop

(Not sure about the "up" and "down" position. Just try it, if the model looks up when the player is lookin down just change their position, I'm to lazy right now to import and anim...)

Now ingame you can see the other palyer looking up/down with this animation, so the engine picks the fitting position between the 2 blends that fits to the angle the player is lookin. That's what I figured out, I hope it's right ^^

 

[D.C. Darkling]

can I do a 6 way blend.. or is it purely only up down, left right, left down, w/e?

 

[Sin Goku]

Dunno. Perhaps go to the polycount or wavelenght forums and ask there. I only work with up/downs and have not seen left/rights. Left/right are bone controller controlled only IMHO. Sorry, but I'm just too tired right now to look there myself, I'll go to sleep now. Good night, I hope you find something. If you do, please post it here.