Create units with OpenFX
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The Great Apple
Big Cheese
Errrrm... good point - I didn't think of thatNeomega said:
EDIT: Not really ideal, as positions are all thrown off, it'll take about an hour to fix it all, so if anybody knows by what lens percentage I need to reduce it by for a 20% increase in resulution I'd be grateful. If not I'll do some experiments...
The Great Apple said:Errrrm... good point - I didn't think of that
EDIT: Not really ideal, as positions are all thrown off, it'll take about an hour to fix it all, so if anybody knows by what lens percentage I need to reduce it by for a 20% increase in resulution I'd be grateful. If not I'll do some experiments...
Not sure what you are doing, but having your original center point at 0,0,0... (not 0,0,1... not sure why Morpheus did that) makes it pretty easy to reposition your unit. You can also do some eyeballing, and using your 2d editor, can do some side by sidew comparisons. That is what I did when I realized my soldeir was too big.
What I mean is, I am not sure why you want to scale up.
If it is to add a beam weapon, I have always worked in 239 x 239 cells for all animations, so scale problems would not arise. Unfortuantely to get BMPs you need multiples of 20... so 220 x 220 would probably be advised.
The Great Apple
Big Cheese
I've been working in 200x150, but need more space for the missile animation, so I'm upsizing to 240x180. There are quite a few different objects involved in this animation, and I am too lazy to shift them all so they all work again (each smoke puff would have to be moved manually, and the rockets appear to be going too fast). Several bodges have been made along the way which confuse the issue as well, and it would be far easier just to resize using lens sizes.
If I know I can also trim down the resolution of the other animations, cutting out some redundant magenta, and saving space and rendering time.
If I know I can also trim down the resolution of the other animations, cutting out some redundant magenta, and saving space and rendering time.
Tzar Sasha
Tzar of Nowheresville
Neomega said:
The Morpheous use 0,0,1 because he was demonstrating with a flying unit which sits a little higher than the ground units. In fact my Borg Tacticle Cube was centered at 0,0,1.7 because when rendered at 240x240 that was the position needed to center the unit properly within the map grid in game.
muffins
Lemon scented
Neomega said:
oh, my word! Now THAT is cool! How did you do the missile smoke-trail?
muffins said:
How did you do the missile smoke-trail?
My bad, I must have promised on a different thread to show the missile animation once I got home....
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=2027257#post2027257
Is where the discussion was occuring....
Chris85
Emperor
Chris85 said:
Well I'll be damned, first word from the site in over a year.....
Mr. Will
Mister
How do you do civilopedia pictures? I think it's been asked before but I don't know where.
BTW, here is my next animation challenge after i post the Artic Tank, hopefully I won't screw up the beautiful model, which is done by Spart, my artistic brother. Anyone have any tips on animating bi-pedal units?
BTW, here is my next animation challenge after i post the Artic Tank, hopefully I won't screw up the beautiful model, which is done by Spart, my artistic brother. Anyone have any tips on animating bi-pedal units?
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muffins
Lemon scented
Take your pic in Animator, then in PSP resize to 128x128 and decrease the colour depth to 256 colours. Edit the palette so that the very last colour (bottom right I think in the palette view) is the magenta/pink colour. The small pedia pics are done the same way but to 32x32 size.Mr. Will said:
The only helpful advice I can give for that rather cool mech is to take your time and model the walk on an ostrich or the rear-legs of a dog
The Great Apple
Big Cheese
With my dreadnaught I found the run to be the hardest animation. You need quite a bit of movement (it would be horrible without a skelleton), and, what muffins said.Mr. Will said:
A new version? Great! Though it doesn't seem to have many changes, it's the bugfixes I'm looking forward too.
Mr. Will said:
Break it up into a set of four, and draw a stick figure storyboard, with a white leg and a black leg. That's how I finally figured it out. Reverse joint is fairly difficult because you can't walk around and figure it out. I believe reverse joint is a more bumpy ride...
muffins
Lemon scented
This is how I did it 
24 frames and the keyframes were set 3 frames apart
24 frames and the keyframes were set 3 frames apart
Mr. Will
Mister
Muffins,
I made these when I was bored last week. I heard the Muffin Army was low on ideas...
I made these when I was bored last week. I heard the Muffin Army was low on ideas...
The Great Apple
Big Cheese
EDIT: Sorry - this post was a load of nonsence
EDIT 2: No it wasn't... has anybody else found there are more bugs in version 1.1 than in version 1.0?
EDIT 2: No it wasn't... has anybody else found there are more bugs in version 1.1 than in version 1.0?
Mr. Will
Mister
How many joints do you reccomend in my unit's legs?
The Great Apple said:
I wouldn't be surprised. New versions always seem to add a bug for every one they fix.
I really did not see a need to upgrade, so I haven't.
legs should have a hip, a knee, an ankle and a toe joint.
The hip attatches to the pelvis, The upperleg attaches to teh knee, the lower leg attaches to the ankle, and the foot attaches to the toe.
Tzar Sasha
Tzar of Nowheresville
I found a mesh online that I'd like to animate, but it has greater than 65535 vertices. OpenFX will not let me render the image. Does anybody know how I can reduce the number of vertices? I tried breaking the mesh up into smaller logical segments, but each section also had too many vertices.
