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Better Sailors

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Korrow142

Landlubber
'Lo guys <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />
*Cough* <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />
Ahoy mates! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/diomed.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dio" border="0" alt="diomed.gif" /> Jus' thought I'd give ya a small sample o' what I bin workin' on as of late, as well as ask for your assistance.
<img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c338/KorrowOfCheese/man5.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
<img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c338/KorrowOfCheese/man2.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
<img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c338/KorrowOfCheese/man4.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
As yeh may notice, I replaced the default Lo_man characters with the characters used for when the player is walking around. They walk around the ship quite well, (Or as well as they ever did atleast) but that is not to say there aren't problems.
<img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c338/KorrowOfCheese/man3.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
You may not know it, but in sitting down, this man is loading the cannon <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> Because man.an doesn't have any cannon loading animation, I got stuck with this.
<img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c338/KorrowOfCheese/man1.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
There isn't a climbing animation either, and let me tell you it's pretty funny to see this guy levitate up the rigging. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />

Anyway, the help that I was after. I'm wondering if anyone would be able to tell me if it would be possible to make animations in 3dsmax and convert them into the .an files that POTC uses? Right now, I just edited the .ani file to use animations that kinda sorta work. Any help would be appreciated. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
nobody has ever been able to make a new animation yet. it's possible, but no-one knows how.
 
You can in Tool, can't you? I haven't tried putting anything ingame as of yet, but I've been able to edit animations to some extent.
I'll go see if I can get anything to work ingame.

[Edit] Argh, you're right. It won't save the animation once you edit it. [

[Edit2] Oh, just kidding! The animations were renamed when I saved them. I'm going to have to mess around with this now. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />

Oh by the way, if anyone would be so kind as to upload the original RESOURCE\MODELS\LowCharacters file I would appreciate it, I managed to mess up the backup that I made. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
i think that's more animation work than anyone else here has done. although i HAVE seen Morthon doing some nice work with making an animated kraken.
 
Hmm. It seems that anything before where I edit gets lost. The ideal way to fix the animation problems would be to change the detailed models to use the default sailor skeleton. Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to rig a POTC character?
 
ask Heretik. he made a davy jones character from scratch, although i guess you mean animations, right? in that case, no, there isn't a tutorial on that, as no-one knows how to make them.
 
The only people who ever were able to mess around with animations were High Sea Lass and Inez Dias. They've both left quite a while ago, but perhaps we might still be able to contact them. If only we could get some of their knowledge back into the community, that might give us the opportunity to do quite a lot of new things.
 
BTW: How did you manage to replace those sailors? Looks really nice! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" />
 
I replaced the Lo_Man.an with a copy of man.an and gave the Lo_Man.ani a few edits so that the animations more or less fit. Then I just replaced all the guys in the LowCharacters folder.

Oh, Pieter, I was going to PM you about this, but word on the street is that you can change user names. Would you mind taking these numbers of my username? I have no idea why I put them on there. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />
 
I changed your display name as per your request. Your log-in information should remain the same as before. If you have trouble logging in, please let me know.
 
how is he supposed to tell you that he has trouble logging in if he can't log in?
 
yeah, i thought of that after i posted. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Everything works fine, thankye. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />
 
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