Idle animation "twitches" when viewed externally
by Fenrir Wolf · in Torque Game Engine · 06/20/2004 (2:29 pm) · 21 replies
Hi there. I've been having this little problem with Torque lately that has been driving me nuts. It's not a show stopper as far as being a major bug, but it is very visually jarring.
What happens is that my DTS shape for the player has an idle animation. It plays fine when I am attached to the object -- For example, viewing it from third-person view. But when I view the object from another camera (like, hit ALT-C or F7), the idle animation twitches. It's almost like it's trying to play one of the walk/side animations, but then quickly resets.
Well, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a short video file must be worth a million. (670k MPEG) It demonstrates what happens.
I've verified it does it with my own modified Torque engine, or if I drop the unmodified demo .exe in the directory. So it can't be due to any code changes I've made.
Oh, I am using Dave's Lightwave DTS exporter.
What happens is that my DTS shape for the player has an idle animation. It plays fine when I am attached to the object -- For example, viewing it from third-person view. But when I view the object from another camera (like, hit ALT-C or F7), the idle animation twitches. It's almost like it's trying to play one of the walk/side animations, but then quickly resets.
Well, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a short video file must be worth a million. (670k MPEG) It demonstrates what happens.
I've verified it does it with my own modified Torque engine, or if I drop the unmodified demo .exe in the directory. So it can't be due to any code changes I've made.
Oh, I am using Dave's Lightwave DTS exporter.
Torque Owner Thomas \"Man of Ice\" Lund
I'll start a thread here