virigils animation

scott · Post by **scott** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:22 pm

i am trying to get virgils bones however milkshape now doesnt successfuly decompile virigil, it creats a .bdy file and when you open it, milkshape crashes i have tried actor decompile how ever this has not exported the bones, i can export the mesh as a .msh file and the animations as .mot files but no .bdy file, when you tell it to export the bones on their own it dont do anything (to my knowledege) i am trying to rig up agentarrows character with virgils skeleton if i can get it to look good, however i need his bones first.

Post by **Jay** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:28 pm

download the UniversalHuman package. It does not only contain the UniversalHuman and its media, but also a file called Virg007.ms3d. This is virgil, but with other textures (so he looks like Bond).

btw i used this model as the base model for male characters in my game.

Post by **bernie** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:53 pm

The problem is milkshape decompiles ok but it doesn't import .bdy files of any description even the ones it makes itself and as far as I am aware it never has done.

I've explained how to do this before, see this thread:
http://www.realityfactory.info/forum/vi ... php?t=2415
I use universal human characters with virgils animations for all my stuff. You have to re-rig the model using virgils bones but it's worth the effort.

scott · Post by **scott** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:53 am

i missed your second post, bernie, i read the one lower when i searched for this as i can remember it being discussed, however i will try the download and then lithunwrap.

thanks for the help guys.

Post by **bernie** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:21 pm

Yes I did post somewhere else recently but I cant find it. The model will be rotated 90deg when you get it in milkshape from lithunwrap, so when you have re rigged it you have to reallign it. You can't move the rigged model in milkshape or the animations go haywire.
The answer is as follows:
1 save as .bdy
2 load into lithunwrap
3 save as .ms3d
4 load back into milkshape
5 repeat 1 - 4 until the base of the model is at the axes in milkshape. (virgil skeleton faces down and to the right with feet at the axes to be correct)
6 save as .bdy and compile to .act

I hope I made that clear enough I'm not too good at explanations.

The .bdy importer is that it is a 3rd party application that has been incorperated in MS so getting it fixed is a problem. As far back as I can remember it has never worked. Fortunately the exporter works or we would be in deep do-do.

3didy · Post by **3didy** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:06 am

Hi
i'm still new to Rf
May i ask where i can dload the UniversalHuman package?is it for RF only?
i searched google with no good topics found
thnx

vrageprogrammer · Post by **vrageprogrammer** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:15 am

Rf Filefront site,
Search for filefront on this site.

steven8 · Post by **steven8** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:14 am

http://hosted.filefront.com/realityfactory/1506796 - Universal Human. Bookmark the filefront page, and there is no more hunting after that!

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:16 am

Sorry for opening an old topic, but that was for Zeth right?

scott · Post by **scott** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:39 pm

indeed, however the .act file had the animations already added, the same names as the .mot's so i should imagine you could just change the name of the .act to virgil and it will load your model instead. to do it properly you will need to change some scriptst to which file it loads the actor from, unless its in the player setup entity.