Multiple models under one skeleton
by Stephen · in Artist Corner · 12/06/2005 (5:11 pm) · 7 replies
Is it possible to have a basicskeleton for seven different meshes...but also resize them?..im creating an action adv rpg and you get to pic between races but i want to see if i could animate one skeleton for all human types and then another skeleton for any beast types....but some of the human races will be sized differently...any takers?
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#3
like, you can make a HUGE person and they do what you would want.
that is,
the bone-weighting for each vertex isn't affected by the scale.
try it out on the Orc in the stock demo.
12/06/2005 (6:02 pm)
I believe so.like, you can make a HUGE person and they do what you would want.
that is,
the bone-weighting for each vertex isn't affected by the scale.
try it out on the Orc in the stock demo.
#5
12/07/2005 (11:53 am)
Be aware that lighting doesn't work well with scaled objects.
#6
in what way ?
what amounts of scale start to be trouble ?
also this scale is applied after any skeletal animation,
so if you scale the player to be twice as tall,
their arm will be twice as long with arm straight up,
but twice as thick with arm horizontal.
there's a resource for doing better, pre-skeletal animation body scaling somewhere..
12/07/2005 (2:16 pm)
Huh,in what way ?
what amounts of scale start to be trouble ?
also this scale is applied after any skeletal animation,
so if you scale the player to be twice as tall,
their arm will be twice as long with arm straight up,
but twice as thick with arm horizontal.
there's a resource for doing better, pre-skeletal animation body scaling somewhere..
#7
So your saying that if the character selection screen allows for bone scaling to allow more model look freedom -it will screw the lights on said models ?
12/08/2005 (11:40 am)
@ ThomasSo your saying that if the character selection screen allows for bone scaling to allow more model look freedom -it will screw the lights on said models ?
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you can scale the players in-game via script:
%player.setScale("1.5 1.5 1.1"); // make the player much wider and slightly taller.
or probably even in player.cs