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C.A.T. with Max and TGE?

by Dale Cannon · in Artist Corner · 03/23/2005 (8:22 pm) · 8 replies

Im curious about what restrictions there are on what bone and animation system we can use. I am looking into purchasing C.A.T. [url]www.catoolkit.com[url] and am wondering if I can use this with TGE.
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Torque Owner Joe Maruschak
#1
03/23/2005 (8:34 pm)
I have not used C.A.T, but I have looked at it, and I can't see anything in it that would prevent it from being used to create animations for TGE. The animation system is really flexible, and I have nto had a situation yet where I could not expor a rig I had made..

Torque Owner Dale Cannon
#2
03/23/2005 (8:41 pm)
Thanks Joe thats what I wanted to hear.

Matthew Pierce
#3
02/22/2006 (7:32 am)
Just following up with this...has anyone got CAT to export correctly? If so, a brief explanation or tutorial would be great! Thanks in advance.

Torque Owner Bardur Mikladal
#4
04/12/2006 (4:21 pm)
I second that! *Matthew*

Regards
Bardur

Torque Owner Magnus Blikstad
#5
04/12/2006 (4:41 pm)
I haven't used cat either, but I don't really see what the problem is.
Create your skeleton; hook up your mesh with the skin modifier. Animate. Export.

Have you tried it and have any particular issues, or what?

Torque Owner AnarchyRising
#6
07/05/2007 (6:56 pm)
Old thread I know but I've used CAT (the most recent version anyway) with TGE and TGEA and it works fine. As long as you don't expect the features specific to CAT and not as a CS/Biped aid it will work fine.

Torque Owner Pierre (DragoFire) Hay
RedlineIT
#7
09/25/2007 (9:25 pm)
AnarchyRising do you have an other useful tips for the use of CAT and TGE/A?

As planning to start working on Character models for my game soon, and looking at all the options.

Torque Owner AnarchyRising
#8
10/24/2007 (10:22 pm)
Sorry for the late reply Pierre. There are no other useful tips that I can think of. The new CAT (Softimage aquisition version) works fine with TGE/A. You "may" have to collapse the CAT rig to MAX native bones for it to work but it depends what kind of content loader you use with your programmers.

Since I'm not an expert programmer I can't comment on that aspect.