Scaling The Model Without Loosing It's Animations?

[metal_head]

I made a model and I made some animations for it, it took me long time to make them, now I need to resize the model (make it bigger). Is it possible the model to be scaled without loosing it's animations?

[Jay]

...you change the ActorScale...

It depends on what entity you are using (is it a Player, a StaticEntityProxy, a StaticMesh, a Pawn etc.) where you can find it, but it is always called ActorScale. Higher means bigger.

[Juutis]

You can also use MilkShape's Scale All tool. It scales everything: the mesh, the skeleton and the animations.

But as Jay said, scaling the actor in RF is much easier.

[metal_head]

Thanks! I know that I can scale the model with the scale factor column, but the model is a first person weapon and if I scale it with the nums, it will collide with the walls..dunno what's the proper word for that, part of the weapon goes INTO the wall.

[creekmonkey]

The scale all tool in MilKshape scales the animations????? If anyone has been sucessful in scaleing a model in Milkshape with "scale all" and still have the animations work corectly Id love to know how. I have tried several times with several different models and the animations are always messed up.

[bernie]

Well there's one in the next version of Equity V6 (will be out within a few weeks) and it works quite well.

[Juutis]

The scale all tool in MilKshape scales the animations????? If anyone has been sucessful in scaleing a model in Milkshape with "scale all" and still have the animations work corectly Id love to know how. I have tried several times with several different models and the animations are always messed up.

I have done that, quite a lot of times actually. Never had a problem with it. Just remember to scale the animation files as well. I mean, using a scaled model with an animation that hasn't been scaled won't work.

Thanks! I know that I can scale the model with the scale factor column, but the model is a first person weapon and if I scale it with the nums, it will collide with the walls..dunno what's the proper word for that, part of the weapon goes INTO the wall.

I'm afraid scaling the model in MilkShape won't help you there. It doesn't matter whether you make the model bigger in the modeler or with RF's ActorScale, the model will still grow and go inside walls.

[creekmonkey]

@ bernie...Sounds great, I have been waiting and looking forward to the next release.

@juutis....What am I doing wrong? I open model, import animation, scale all and the animation is totally deformed.

[Juutis]

@juutis....What am I doing wrong? I open model, import animation, scale all and the animation is totally deformed.

Seems like you're in the animation mode when you use the tool. Use the tool in the normal mode (exit the animation mode by pressing 'Anim' in the lower right corner). If you're not in the animation mode, I can't help you 'cause for me the tool works perfectly.

[creekmonkey]

Bingo! You are right Juutis & thanks! If I use the scale all tool in animation mode it deforms the animation. But I also found that if I play the animation before scaleing it also deforms the animation about 50 % of the time.

[Jay]

@metal_head: It seems that your problem is the Players' BoundingBox then. If you want to avoid that the weapon goes 'into the wall' then you have to avoid that the Player gets near enough of the wall. It depends on if you're using a ScriptedPlayer or a built-in one, but the thing you are searching for is called BoundingBoxWidth.

[metal_head]

@metal_head: It seems that your problem is the Players' BoundingBox then. If you want to avoid that the weapon goes 'into the wall' then you have to avoid that the Player gets near enough of the wall. It depends on if you're using a ScriptedPlayer or a built-in one, but the thing you are searching for is called BoundingBoxWidth.

Yeah thanks, I set it to 30 and now's OK, in Metal Force I've set it to 35, but I was making the model for another game, in which I wanted the player's BBox to be smaller, but 30 is fair size.