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Skeleton Pack Blog 5

Name:	Andy Hawkins
Date Posted:	Jul 25, 2006
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Just a quick update this week. You can find out more info and purchase the Skeleton PackSkeleton Pack[/url] here.

The work continues, most importantly on the Max source animations. There are a lot of little tweaks required using Multi-res and some workarounds were required because of some niggly issues with the Max 6,7,8 DTS exporter especially when dealing with transparency, most notably the rib cage. It had many unclosed edges, which work well on Lw2DTS exporter but not the Max one. Nevertheless, the Skeleton Pack wants to exist in Max format!!!!!!

Also I forgot to mention last time, there are several static poses with severed limbs - mid joint as if sliced off by a sword.

Progress list...
- 3dsMax source animation - 80%
- Several Static Poses - 100%
- Skeleton pieces - 100%
- A new mission - 20%
- A special surprise! - 15%

More copies were sold so thanks to everyone who has supported the pack so far. The pics below are the biped rigged over the skeleton in Max and an example of the weight mapping. The Skeleton can be pulled, pushed, tweaked, nipped and tucked in a variety of extreme poses and not break the rigg as seen below. More soon!!!

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Jesse (Midhir) Liles (Jul 26, 2006 at 03:56 GMT)

Special surprise? I'm going to call my boss and demand a 50% raise so I can get this sooner rather than later =-/

Andy Hawkins (Jul 26, 2006 at 10:35 GMT)

@Jesse : With a 50% payrise you could buy 2 packs :) It would make a great present for a budding Torque user and keep one for yourself :)

Jesse (Midhir) Liles (Jul 26, 2006 at 11:23 GMT)

Well, he laughed at me, so I guess that went better than expected. Anyway, I'm still working on not being broke ;)

Andy Hawkins (Jul 26, 2006 at 13:22 GMT)

Maybe try for a 7% payrise. He might go for that.

Hans (Jul 26, 2006 at 22:24 GMT)

Andy: is ths an updated pack for the first rel or is this a totaly new pack ?

thks

Hans

Andy Hawkins (Jul 26, 2006 at 23:00 GMT)

@Hans - yes this is a FREE upgrade to the existing release. Free to those who already have the pack. New customers will get the old and new items in one pack.

Michael Cozzolino (Jul 27, 2006 at 14:45 GMT)

Argh. I have no system right now due to Hardware failure. I was just about to finally start playing with the pack too. :( Hopefully by Monday my parts will be at my home.

Andy Hawkins (Jul 27, 2006 at 15:25 GMT)

good luck with your system Michael. Hopefully you get up and running soon.

Sabrecyd (Aug 23, 2006 at 20:34 GMT)

Anything new with this? Just checking :)

Andy Hawkins (Aug 23, 2006 at 23:06 GMT)

Things are going a bit slowly. I was hoping for a August release, but because of technical issues with the transparency and max exporting tools it's dropped the schedule back a bit - keep the faith! Some good stuff in the works!!!!

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