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Baker Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1538 |

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:54 am Post subject: Bone support or anything to make animation easier? |

I opened up a couple of monster models like the Knight (knight.mdl in pak0). To my shock, it has over 100 animation frames (the walk animation has 14 all by itself). I was expecting less because player.mdl has 143 animations and the knight doesn't do as much.
If there was bone support (or something else) in Quake 1, how much easier would it be to do animations using some other model format?
/Btw, the knight has a cool kneel animation! I've never seen this used in a mod.

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MauveBib Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 602 |

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:08 am Post subject: |

Darkplaces supports its own skeletal model formation, DPM, which is compiled from half life SDKs. Bones are usually used in making and animatiing Quake models, though lost when saved as a .mdl file. Even a tool as old as QME supports skeletal animation through its own model format.
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scar3crow Inside3D Staff Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 837 Location: Las Vegas, NV

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:28 am Post subject: |

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/Btw, the knight has a cool kneel animation! I've never seen this used in a mod.

Its used in plenty of mods, though none are coming to mind at the moment... Also note the overhead smash animation of the Death Knight, the lack of idle frames for the vore, the reloading frames for the grunts (DPmod uses this - as does Quoth for the rocket grunts iirc), and the Ogre chainsaw rev frames. I can't recall if there are any other odd frames like that hidden about...
I would kill, and by kill, I mean use the term in a purely hypothetical scenario which would never be reached, for Quake models with bones intact.
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Urre Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 1073 Location: Sweden |

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject: |

/me imagines a world where the rest of Quakes art assets were released under the GPL... lei: wanna pester Romero some? scar3: The hellknight sword-point animation isn't used in Quake, but in plenty mods. Often used for a lightning-attack. _________________
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MeTcHsteekle Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 397 Location: its a secret |

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: |

the kneel and point is used alot on fvf if there is a possie of knights they do a kneel move and reflect your projectiles back at you, ans they also do it so u cant hit the monsters at all _________________ bah

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