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Re: Animated minfigs
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Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:12:57 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Owen Dive wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Michael Horvath wrote:
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> > Do you have any animations you would like to spare? I think it would be nice to
> > have a library of animations for different minifig actions, such as running,
> > walking, crawling, etc.
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> >
> > -Mike
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> Hmm, I don't think that would work too well - inevitably the action you want
> will be slightly different from the action you have in the library (e.g. each
> minifig action will require 4 different animation sequences, depending on
> whether he has a tool in his left, right, both or neither hands), in which case
> you'll have to start from scratch anyway.
Not when using my LDA program. (But OTOH, no progress is made on that project.)
Take the walking minifig in this scene:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15954981/a1227c.avi
He is called Fig02 in the main animation script. To make him walk, all I had to
do was to just add the line:
"
Fig02.Animation = MFWalk01.txt
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into the script.
This is the standard walk script MFWalk01.txt:
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; MFWalk01.txt
Self.FramesPerLoop = 20
Self.MoveZSelf = -4
Self.LeftArm.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0 0.25 0 -40
Self.LeftArm.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0.25 0.75 -40 40
Self.LeftArm.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0.75 1 40 0
Self.RightArm.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0 0.25 0 40
Self.RightArm.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0.25 0.75 40 -40
Self.RightArm.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0.75 1 -40 0
Self.LeftLeg.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0 0.25 0 40
Self.LeftLeg.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0.25 0.75 40 -40
Self.LeftLeg.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0.75 1 -40 0
Self.RightLeg.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0 0.25 0 -40
Self.RightLeg.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0.25 0.75 -40 40
Self.RightLeg.XRot.Tween Self.Progress 0.75 1 40 0
"
So far the only animation sequence I've produced in over 11 years, but the
syntax isn't that complicated to figure out.
If I wanted that minifig to carry a hammer in his right hand, all I have to do
is add to the main script (not to the generic MFWalk01.txt file!) this line:
"
Fig02.Hammer.Create Fig02.RightHand 0 5 8 -1 1 0 0 0 0.73 -0.64 0 0.64 0.73
4522.dat
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I have no experience of LD4D, but since it's a much more professional animation
software, I would be very surprised if similar modularirity was impossible
there(?)
/Tore
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| (...) LD4D uses packages in order to reuse existing actors and animation sequences that use them in other animations. But it is some what limited in the way an actor is a static collection of parts (e.g. minifig space man). But you could still reuse (...) (14 years ago, 16-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Hmm, I don't think that would work too well - inevitably the action you want will be slightly different from the action you have in the library (e.g. each minifig action will require 4 different animation sequences, depending on whether he has (...) (14 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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