Maratis forum - Animating my robot.

Re: Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (Pär) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:49:15 +0000

Nevermind, I got this working.

Re: Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (Pär) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:12:40 +0000

Hey, now it's the same problem again. But I have assigned all the meshes and parented the meshes with the bones. So what's wrong this time?

I made an eating-animation.

http://www.mediafire.com/?1i3p82j9kguc28c

Re: Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (Pär) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:39:52 +0000

Thanks! Now everything works.

Re: Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (anael) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:19:39 +0000

not necessary weight paint, use vertex groups, you can have exactly the same result.

For example, the torso of your robot :

1 : Object Modifiers tab > in the Armature modifier, select 'Armature' in the 'Object' field
2 : Object Data tab > add a vertex group with the name of the bone you want to skin the vertex group, here "Bone"
3 : go to edit mode > select all vertices of the torso > clic on 'assign' in the vertex group

do that for every piece of the robot.

Re: Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (Pär) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:44:45 +0000

Ah, weight-painting? I cant use the automatic weights. It makes the mesh look totally wierd.

Re: Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (anael) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:25:14 +0000

What I mean is parenting to bones is not supported by the exporter.

You have to use vertex skinning to attach the vertices to the bone.

Re: Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (Pär) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:16:44 +0000

Thanks Zester!

Anael, exactly, what is needed to be done?

Re: Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (zester) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:06:42 +0000

Hmmm going to have to wait on anael for this one. I couldnt get the animation exported eather. But i will say I really like your robot and I learned something new about modeling characters that are going to be animated. Your character is broken up in differant parts I never though about doing it that way. My main characters body was alwys one solid peice and I would have problems with joint folding. Soooo Thanks for showing a differnt way to do that.

Re: Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (anael) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:03:45 +0000

Hi,
there is no skinning, did you just parented each piece to the bones ?

the exporter only work with regular skinning and bones for animation.

Animating my robot.

dummy@example.com (Pär) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:48:01 +0000

Hey!

http://www.mediafire.com/?qlgh0r0qcw05tzd

When I export this blenderfile the animations doesn't follow into maratis, why?

This happened before, I guess it's time to ask about it.

Pär