Questions on using actors

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:29 pm

I'm sure I posted this on Saturday, but I am not seeing it anywhere.

I want to make an actor act as a light. Is this possible?
Also, I have my own model as the player, but it is not animating, although I created a walk and idle .mot file with the actor.
I tested it in ActView and it worked, but in RF when I press the key to walk, my character just slides forward. Is there something more I need to do in order for it to animate? I tried the Shelly actor and it animates, it's strange to me why mine doesn't. Can someone help please?

Spyrewolf · Post by **Spyrewolf** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:03 am

it's possible you placed a typo in your playersetup.ini check the spelling of the .mot i thin it may also be case sensitive

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:08 am

I thought it was that too, and I changed The the letters to match mine, but that made no difference. It did affect the virgil character though.

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:55 am

I am wondering - Could the problem perhaps be the amount of frames I used in MilkShape to do an animation? For the Idle animation I used 5, and for the Walk animation I used 20. What do you think?

Juutis · Post by **Juutis** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:04 am

I don't think the amount of frames can do that. I've had animations with 1 and animations with +200 keyframes, so 5 and 20 shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, if ActView shows the animations, RF should be able to show them too. I bet there's something wrong with your .ini files. Just double check everything.

Post by **bernie** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:08 am

It's more likely a typo when saving your MOT files from Milkshape. The animation name is case sensitive ie. walk and Walk are different. You must use the same name in actor compile and in your scripts otherwise the animation will not play. Try rebuilding your actor again from milkshape bearing in mind the above.
cheers,
Bernie.

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:43 am

Thank Bernie. I already tried that. I rebuilt the actor and capitalized the first letter of 'idle'. It didn't work.
Thank Justus. I am sure there is a problem somewhere. Where? I don't know. All I do though is add this to the character .ini:
[Zen]
image = virgil075A.bmp
actorname = char000.act
actorrotation = -180 -180 -180
actorscale = 1.4
animationspeed = 1
fillcolor = 255 255 255
ambientcolor = 255 255 255
ambientlightfromfloor = true
attributefile = player.ini
startlevel = rfdemov1.bsp

Then I change the actorname to different actors, including mine. All the other actors animate except mine. I can't figure it out.

Spyrewolf · Post by **Spyrewolf** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:55 am

Spyrewolf wrote: a typo in your playersetup.ini

there is a list of animations in your playersetup.ini, not character.ini, the playersetup.ini contain a list of anims specific to the player the anim names in there need to match the anims in your act.

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:26 am

Yes I know. I made sure I named the animation to match.

Post by **paradoxnj** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:56 pm

Did you load your actor into the ActorViewer to see if your animation is the issue?

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:44 pm

Like I said at the outset, I tested it in ActView, and the animation was there, and it ran.

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:34 am

I think I found the problem. I had to export the animation with the animation name, for example "Idle.mot", in order for it to work. So my Idle animation is now working. I wanted to do the same with the Walk animation, with the hope that that will work too, but I ran into a problem. I can't get rid of the Idle animation from the keyframes. I hit 'delete keyframe' and 'remove all keyframes'. I restarted the program numerous times, and they are still there. Does anyone know how I can start with clean keyframes?

scott · Post by **scott** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:12 pm

when you are on the actual keyframe itself go to animation and delete keyframe, that should do the trick, you know when your on the keyframe as the skeleton changes colour

Jaguar_jwg · Post by **Jaguar_jwg** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:59 am

I did that but it didn't change. Anyhow, I got it working I had to use a model I saved previously with bones. It could be that I had mistakenly saved the other model with the animation. I now have an Idle and Walk animation. Thanks