Arma 2 Sample Skeleton Custom Animations

[Arma 2 Sample Skeleton Custom Animations]

This exactly what you should be doing. You can do that using bones (like BI did), bipeds as well as CAT. I know it worked for me. That said, i for one would wait for A3 before i finish my own rigs.

you're welcome. Hope it helps

So what Hell is saying is that he creates his own bone structure? Like:

Import BI sample > form bone family from 3DS > Copy each coordinate and rotation for bones as the sample > Finished?

[Arma 2 Sample Skeleton Custom Animations]

you don't know what you meant in previous post? way to go.

and i've told you before, yes that is possible to get the samples in Maya, then rig it based on the bones structure available, following the inheritance, and animate it. You can get the animation back in O2 using any of the methods described above.

where is the confusion?

Thanks for piecing it, it was all just sort of jumbled. Thanks for the information. :)

[Arma 2 Sample Skeleton Custom Animations]

edit lod? please rephrase

I don't know, all I wanted to know was to import the arma 2 sample into Maya so I could rig and then animate. Getting confused by what you guys are talking about.

[Arma 2 Sample Skeleton Custom Animations]

although i haven't tried it, and 3ds should save basic animations and keyframes (linear ones, rotation, movement and scale), i doubt it really does. 3ds is a legacy format, so i actually never used in the last 6-7 years. Might be worth giving it a try.

EDIT:

i just gave it a try, and amazingly, it does work. I wasn't expecting that at all. Good catch Thromp

So the edit lod does work? I am getting confused by this conversation you two had.

[Arma 2 Sample Skeleton Custom Animations]

there is no such thing

Okay well, would you accept money through some form like Paypal and help me get a workflow set up?

[Arma 2 Sample Skeleton Custom Animations]

Yes, it is possible to import the skeleton provided in the sample and create a rig based on that. You can import maya animation file back in o2, as long as the animation curves are set to linear (and not the default, for both max and maya - ease in/out).

Oh that is very interesting. Do you know of any tutorials to get that import/export set up?

[Arma 2 Sample Skeleton Custom Animations]

Are you able to import the skeleton into something like Maya or 3DS and animate it? This would create a much better workflow than using Oxygen2 for me. Or is it impossible, and I just gotta suck it up?

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I created a previous thread and I suppose I misrepresented myself. But that is out of the way now and I am wondering if it's possible to hook up your own made animations with different bone sets to Arma NPCs, or would you have to use a rig that BI has provided? I am currently inquiring mainly because I wanted to test out the Arma 2 engine for creating mini-movies. Any information would be of help.:)

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