Darren-NYPD Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Hi I was trying to animate a new spotlight for a police light tower truck. I tried using zmodeler 3 and thats to a tutorial online I managed to get an Idea how to animate..If I manage to animate correctly and manages to assign the animation with the model in zmodeler do i have to create a script for commands in game ?(Becuase Rw spotlight super has Loghts on, Lights Of Commands and same commands are not in scrips folder of the game)... how can this be possabile?Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-NYPD Posted July 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hi, I watched this youtube video from zmodeler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc6N6KPqgW8 Now I managed to create animations as Lights On (Light Pole goes up) ... then Lights OFF (light Pole goes down)..Now it seemd that my problem is How to connect these animatuons in the game scripts of LIGHTS ON and LIGHTS OFF.Any type of help would be greatly appriciatedHere are 2 pics to explainLIGHTS ON:LIGHTS OFF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchboy Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 http://forum.emergency-planet.com/tutorials/article/2-animating-3d-models/ This tutorial should cover the basics. All you need is the "frames" in between the spotlight being down and up. Some examples from my own works: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-NYPD Posted July 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hi, ( If i understood you right ) regarding animations, I did the animation already (with zmod 3) so now i have the truck file (v3o) and truck animatiuon file (vmo).. in editor they work but in game no *probably due to script I was planning to somehow assign the animations in Lights On and Lights Of scripts of the original game since they are used for the same purpose. but can't manage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchboy Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hi, ( If i understood you right ) regarding animations, I did the animation already (with zmod 3) so now i have the truck file (v3o) and truck animatiuon file (vmo).. in editor they work but in game no *probably due to script I was planning to somehow assign the animations in Lights On and Lights Of scripts of the original game since they are used for the same purpose. but can't manageDid you name the animations properly? Did you name them like the original RW in Em4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-NYPD Posted July 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Yes they are named the same.So I named the animations in the truck as Light_on and Light_OFF exectally how the are the names of the animations in the RW_SPOTLIGHT_SUPER file.When the rw_spotlight_super file was placed on the rw equipment vehicle in the game it had Lightson and lightsoff commands attached and it worked.. min is'nt .... I also changed the traits of the police truck to rw. (as the rw truck) to be exectally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchboy Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Did you set the childobject like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-NYPD Posted July 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 They look the same, The only difference is that mine don't have the first letter in caps)(My exta one named bindpose) that is empty, cause i worked step by step like the tutorial in the video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyPI Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 They look the same, The only difference is that mine don't have the first letter in caps) Which is exactly your problem, it must be a verbatim match to the original in order for the game to recognize and use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-NYPD Posted July 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Yes thats what i been wanting to do.. So in this case the bindpose animation should be removed? And only lights on and lights off stays in the vmo file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-NYPD Posted July 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Btw i dont know if it has something to do but since its a vehicle i cannot tick the same traits as the rw spotlight super ( at the bottom where there is Complete: x physics x children x lights etc....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyPI Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 All you have to do is open the V3O in notepad, and change it to be Light_on and Light_off, once that is done the superstructure should function with the default hard-coded system then. bindpose should have no bearing on the function of the animations, as long as the other two present are named properly and function properly as far as their animation frames go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-NYPD Posted July 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 I don't have it named in the v3o file.. because the animations are in a vmo file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyPI Posted July 26, 2015 Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 The way I animate is in the V3O so I guess you'd have to either redo them or open the vmo and rename them (if possible). I am not sure if vmo's are able to be altered after the fact since I don't do it that way=/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-NYPD Posted July 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 I managed to rename them exevtally (usong zmod 3) like those seen ibt the editor but still not working :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
