Hmm, I guess I am not going to be able to do that lumadare thing.

Ah too bad. but you know apparently graphics is only 1 over the 8 ratings

- Overall
- Innovation
- Coolness
- Fun
- Theme
- Humor
- Mood
- Graphics

So it might not be dramatic if you can't get perfect animations

But yeah good idea for the starter pack, i think there was way too much stuff in the first pack, better focus on movement & camera placement before anything else.

I am thinking about re-doing the Maratis Starter pack to re-organize the scripts.

I will have a main.lua file that includes other lua files for specific tasks such as animation:

Something like:

--Main.lua

dofile("Constants_Animation")
dofile("Constants_Movement")
dofile("Constants_Particle")

dofile("Variables_Animation")
dofile("Variables_Movement")
dofile("Variables_Particle")

dofile("Functions_Animation.lua")
dofile("Functions_Movement.lua")
dofile("Functions_Particle")

Note i'm doing this because i'm animating spritesheets so i can't use the blender NLA editor for this.
but for 3d skeletal animations you can use it so i'm not sure it's a good idea to go without animations. but i dont know. honestly i never tried to go single animation with 3D stuff. I can just say it is working great for animating UVoffsets.

By the way setting-up animations is tedious indeed, eventually you can use this script to semi-automate the process. Edit it, set your frames then simply run it from blender. Hope it helps

There are some much needed functions for animation in the Lua API, so I will have to make my own.

Things like:

Looping a group of frames
Blending animations (for transitions)