I've still been working on my animation tool, codenamed "Dragon" :
http://www.mt-wudan.com/dragon20.jpg
http://www.mt-wudan.com/dragon21.jpg
http://www.mt-wudan.com/dragon22.jpg
I'll say it slowly - no, those are not my models - I wrote a program to playback/create animations in the native outcast/academy format.

I'll write up a FAQ or info page someday about it, and put it up on my site.

LongStoryShort: XSI and MAX have a beee-autch of a time getting animations from their individual programs in to the right format for use in outcast/academy, which is a huge problem.

On the flipside - an animation program that is FREE to get and use AND works in the outcast/academy native format, is a problem to make (since it doesn't exist), but would make it easier to get animations from the program to the game.

The other bonus of writing your own program is that you can attempt to add any feature you'd want.

Comments, recommendations, suggestions?

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ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you

You put the wrong copyright year on it.

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The Mega-ZZTer's Gaming Haven!

Bot Pack JO | Let's Roll JK | Bespin JA | Patch Enforcer Public Beta 2 JK/Mots | Pac-Man JK

You sort of lost me, but it looks awesome, and if it allows people to create animations in something other than XSI, I'm sold. Release pls thx.

If it works as advertised, you will make a whole lot of people here VERY HAPPY. *cough Cazor, Thrawn42689 (Numbers?)cough*

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.hack//SIGN - The World - Just Believe

(Yes, This is Cool Matty)

Yep, it uses weapons now, too. yay.

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There are two asses in Massassi... and I'm one of them.
The Matrix Unplugged|The Valley of the Jedi Tower|Smaug's Lair

The first two are animations found in the _humanoid.gla, the third was trying to make the Stormtrooper hold his rifle without burning himself - like in the movies (from memory, I saw a pic from ep 5 and it's apparent that sometimes stormies lead with the other leg - oh well)

Overall, I'd say my goal is to make posing the characters as friendly as ... posing a stikfas.

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ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you

[This message has been edited by wudan (edited January 10, 2004).]

Looking very good. Finally someone has come out with a way to make new anims.

By the way I love your site.

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Freyr of the Coop Mod

[This message has been edited by Freyr (edited January 10, 2004).]

I really need to start testing it for AOTC and TMU

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Attack of the Clones TC For Jedi Outcast

http://www.aotctc.com

Clone Wars Project

*Claps*

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Multiplayer Game Alias: II88BlackOps
JA is awesome!
Corrupted Paths, my WIP for JA. Screens here: http://imagebase.freewebspace.com/photo.html

My quote: "People choose to side with the left, and the others choose to side with the right. I go forward."

http://www.mt-wudan.com/dragon23.jpg

Got the anim exporter working and made a single frame anim (which is about all it can do right now) and made it display in ModView - for some reason ModView appears to be scaling the blaster by the animation file's scale, which makes it veeeeeery small. Also, the model isn't vertex lit in Modview, which makes it nasty-tacular.

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ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you

EXCELENT!, very good work!

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I munch C code for breakfast and have enough room left over for a kernel debugging.

We demand more tiny guns!

[Hmm... 0x404]

[This message has been edited by Omicron88 (edited January 11, 2004).]