Animation!
 

Hello, everyone, I'm a member of the RP Community JKRP, we've got our own Roleplaying mod.

But, we're at the eve of the V2 Release of the said mod, and we've got some animations missing, we'd like to request if anyone could do this animation:



And while this picture is kind of wierd, it shows you waht we want!

We've already got an animation, where your character has his arms crossed, but he is leaning back! And it looks stupid when someone leans on air, we're Jedi or Smugglers, Commando Troopers, Bartenders or Sith or whatever but not Mimes.

Please we request your kind help!

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Could you repost the image or give a different link? It is not showing up for me.
I'm an animator and if it is easy enough I could do it for you.

*edit
Nevermind it worked for me.
So you want:
1. Spread feet/legs that are flat on the ground.
2. Arms crossed over the chest. It may look better if I put the thumbs down instead of up like in the picture.
3. Head/neck lowered in a glowering or brooding manner.

Anything else I may be missing? I'll start on it once you get back to me on this.
How do you want me to pack it up for you? The Dragon files, a pre-merged .gla, or go ahead and put it into a working animation mod? Which animation do you want me to replace with it?
Would you like me to add a slow breathing effect as well? That could look neat.

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Yes, though, the image I showed is a bad example, its just a simple crossed-arms emote, thumbs should be down, yes, and the head standing normally.

I couldn't find a better picture.

I will reply you about the packing in some minutes, also, slow breathing effects would, indeed look nice!

Thank you for your attention!

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Alright, Could you compile it in .GLM?

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I'll work on it tonight.

.glm is a model. I can compile it as a stand alone .gla file that you or someone you know will have to merge with your mod's animations, or I can compile it as a .gla file that is already combined with the default JA animations.

What animation do you want me to overwrite if I combine it with the JA animations?

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I assume Judge knows how to add more animations.
Considering it's a server-side + client-side mod, I assume that's what they plan on doing

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I kinda thought that but just wanted to be sure.

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I'll post his response here.

"I'll look into it but I'm not an animator. If anyone knows anything about animation and compiling .GLM then that would be helpful"

Well, I'll have him talk to you anyway.

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Here is what I have done so far.
http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/w...u/shot0133.png

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/w...u/shot0134.png

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/w...u/shot0135.png

Tell me if this is good enough or what needs tweaking.
When I finish I'll make three different things for you:
1. the Dragon files for you or whoever to edit if they wish,
2. the .gla ready for merging with an _humanoid.gla, and
3. an already merged .gla.
That way everything is covered.

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That looks simply great, katanamaru! :)
As said by Duzo, Josh isn't an animator unfortunately. So yeah. :p

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I meant through coding :D

It's really as simple as having another entry in a list, and making sure _humanoid.gla file matches up with animation.cfg (Which katanamaru can do)

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No, Katanamaru, that's not good enough.. It's Perfect!

Thank you so very much.

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Okay then I'll make all 3 versions of the files and post the link once I get them uploaded. May be tomorrow evening before everything is posted.

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Here is everything:

http://www.filefront.com/16803959/Ar...ed%20Files.zip

This contains: a mod that replaces Both_stand8 with the crossed arms and breathing animation, the Dragon source files, and a version of the animation ready to be merged with another _humanoid.gla.

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Hey Katanamaru, this is Judge btw.

:bows: Thanks alot for that its awesome! really appreciate it dude. I just have one request, do you think you could merge the animation into the JKE .GLA? As I can never seem to get anything to work with dragon xD. Oh and btw did you ever complete your Starkiller Niman replacement? I know you were working on it when JKE was in production?

Jke _humanoid JKE_humanoid.rar

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Yeah I'll merge the new animation with the JKE file.

As for the backhand style; I've gone back and tweaked a few of the moves to make them more effective and have a better presentation. I want to make a couple of tweaks to the movements and a new 2hand lightning still.
I haven't added it with JKE since I'm not sure what would need to be overwritten. Once I finish everything I may contact Raz0r and see if he can help me add it in. This won't be anytime real soon though.

I'm currently thinking about doing one more style and doing the dual backhand style since people will everntually be asking for it.

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:bows:

Great! Thanks alot :) Anything you can add else you can add or tweak would be great as well. Was wondering as well if you could add the backhand stance for niman, as its been requested so many times.. Also a backhand dual stance would be awesome, dual sabers are my favorite stance :). Currently the JKE dual stance doesn't work with the walk animations, so a new walk/stance would be great for it.

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Sorry for the delay.
I got distracted by the new Transformers game.
Here is the arms crossed animation merged with the JKE animations you requested.

http://www.filefront.com/16944025/jke_humanoid.zip

I didn't replace Stand8 like I did in the last version since I figured you or your team would know how to reference it. The animation is BOTH_ARMS_CROSSED.

That JKE file had my animations with it. You have permission to use them since that is the purpose of OJP/JKE. That seems like so long ago since I made those.

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Hmm, I've got another question.

You've made the animation, how can I make it work in JA+?

I just drag the PK3 to the base foulder?

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If it's an animation replacement mod, then you just need to overwrite JA+ animations.
If it's adding more animations, you'll need some coding to put it in (Out of the question if you plan on using JA+)

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I already know that =p.

What I need to know, is how to replace it.

I'm a pretty good skinner but I don't know anything about animation, sorry for the ignorance. :p

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I don't know anything about animations in JA+. I thought there was a way to drop some animations into a folder that JA+ would recognize.

If not the only thing I can think of is to merge the "arms crossed" animation with the JA+ _humanoid.gla and then replace an animation in the animation.cfg or code it in as something new.

I don't have the JA+ _humanoid.gla or animation.cfg file so I can't do that for you. Why did Judge want me to merge it with the JKE animations if this is going to be for JA+? I can merge those with JA+ if you can send me those two files or post them in a message.

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I've heard having multiple animation mods makes things iffy. Which is why I WTF when JA+ and MB2 start throwing animations in the base folder.
Personally, I have a set of animations for each mod in their respective folders, and everything goes fine (AM, JKG, STC, JA+, OJP all have unique animations..) as it should.

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in order for the animation to show up the server/host has to be running the same modded Pk3 as with your own. I tried it...results were:kerian: till I figured it out. anyways, why not just go on filefront and get the files?

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There are different versions of JA+ I believe and I don't want to grab the wrong version with different animations and have to keep merging and guessing which version they want. I'd also not download the whole mod since I have no intention of playing it, but I will if they will tell me which version to get.