Ok I'm starting on the AT-AT....
....now. lol

time for a crash course in pivot points.

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Is there any function that would let you get a certain surface of a thing? For instance if you wanted to use a console to activate a cog, but only the surface on the console that is matted with the little screen doo-dads(highly technical huh?) can activate it. Don't see anything in the jkspecs. Maybe a flag? Maybe impossible? hehe


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Nope.


I wish, though. Thatd be nice.

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Dude, I'm having to import the legs of the at-at into Jed and then slice them up to produce one leg. This is aggravating to an extent.

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Whatever happened to the good 'ole days of Manowars and Empire Nightclub?

ouch there's going to have to be four pivot points for each leg?(at least to make it look realistic). Not impossible though.


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done. i now have
atat body.3do
atat uppperleg.3do
atat lowerleg.3do
atat foot.3do

i hope im going about this the right way?

how about seperating the head from the body so you can rotate that?

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--==CWE_Darth_Opie==--
Whatever happened to the good 'ole days of Manowars and Empire Nightclub?

What excatly are you trying to do ???

Im attempting the unattemptable. To make a walkable AT-AT that a player can transform into thus "driving it and "firing" from it" and transporting other people! kewl huh?

ahhh the question is. do floor flags apply to surfaces of a 3do? Obviuosly so since you can walk on a lot of 3dos! Hopefully at least. lol

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In other words when you jump into the AT-AT you're actually "jumping into" a player!Oh geez. now i'm getting confused!

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Whatever happened to the good 'ole days of Manowars and Empire Nightclub?

..Dont worry about 3d0 surface flags, they mean very little. Whether or not you can stand on a 3d0 is dependant on its thingflags. If the thing it set to "Can be stood on', then you can stand on it. ANY surface of it.

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well that's some comfort. see the prob i have is that i placed a couple adjoined boxes Inside the AT-ATbody.3do. I then need to adjoin these via a door... to a "door" cleave on the AT-ATs surface. Jed wants to extrude stuff the opposite way. Doesn't this mean I have to adjoin the surface and the sector manually through vertices?

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Whatever happened to the good 'ole days of Manowars and Empire Nightclub?

ok im thinking backwards. I see. I always got confused on this. A "sector" in a 3do is actually a "block". You have to reverse the thinking. Unused space in Jed would actually be a sector if you're making a 3do.


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Whatever happened to the good 'ole days of Manowars and Empire Nightclub?

For that surface thing, you can just have a seperate 3do that gets activated, in your case being the console. Then just attach it to the AT-AT.

Ahhh I see now. AttachThingToThing(or something like that. Kinda like how you attach a CTF flag to a player when you pick it up.

BTW is there a node limit in pup files? As related to the cog that will control it.

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I got 23 Pivot Points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG. This may take a few days.

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