Animation problem, help request.

[Toffer90]

Could someone help me figure out why the death animation of this unit doesn't work?

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It works in nifscope, but in game it just plays its sound effects but doesn't move at all, the other animations are fine as far as I know.

I built the unit, armature and animations from scratch.

 

[SaibotLieh]

Could someone help me figure out why the death animation of this unit doesn't work?

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It works in nifscope, but in game it just plays its sound effects but doesn't move at all, the other animations are fine as far as I know.

I built the unit, armature and animations from scratch.

I think it might be because you are missing a "NiMultiTargetTransformController" node. Bones that shall deform during animations must have an entry in that node. Best check one of the standard Civ4 units for reference.

 

[Toffer90]

I think it might be because you are missing a "NiMultiTargetTransformController" node. Bones that shall deform during animations must have an entry in that node. Best check one of the standard Civ4 units for reference.

So that node is needed for bone location transform but not for bone rotation and scaling? The other animation works because they only scale & rotate the bones.

Thanks for the suggestion.^^


Edit: That fixed it right away. Thanks alot.

Edit2: For future references, all bones with animation data should have that node no mater how they are animated. it allows both parent and child bones to animate at the same time and is essential for location transform.

 

[SaibotLieh]

So that node is needed for bone location transform but not for bone rotation and scaling? The other animation works because they only scale & rotate the bones.

Thanks for the suggestion.^^


Edit: That fixed it right away. Thanks alot.

Good to hear that it works for you, glad I could be of help.

Not completely sure why it is needed for location transformation and not for the other two, but most of the time I just put all the nodes of the skeleton into the "NiMultiTargetTransformController" just to be sure.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Wrong forum......

 

[leif erikson]

Moderator Action: Moved to main C&C forum as that is where questions belong. Best of luck resolving the issue.