Re: [Plib-users] ExPoser help required.

[Chris P. <bi...@se...>]

    I dont know much or anything about ExPoser yet so this may be out of
left field. But from what you descibe this may be a solution:

    I belive the Half Life model file also contains the bone movement for
the models. Most of them come with the "stock" halflife animation sequences.
Run Idle Crawl Jump Shoot Die Etc. Lots of the fan made custom models have
unique animations.

    This is one of the places to look for models.

http://www.planethalflife.com/polycount/downloads/index.asp?game=3&sort=date
&order=DESC

     If you could write an importer you could access a lot of pre-made
models with bone animation. And lots of developers that know how to create
that format.

    The MilkShape editor supports the format and has a fileview app with
source (dont have the link at the moment). I am not sure how "open" the
source is however. Some parts of it are from a Valve Half Life SDK. But I
guess they (Valve) dont mind you using the fileformat.

    Regards
        Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Baker" <sjb...@ai...>
To: "PLIB-users" <pli...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: [Plib-users] ExPoser help required.


>
> I know from the volume of "Wow!" and "Thanks!" emails that quite a few
> people are having fun playing with ExPoser.
>
> I was wondering if people who are just playing or learning might like
> to contribute some ".bones" files for the "human.ac" model that comes
> with ExPoser.
>
> My next game needs:
>
>   * A variety of martial arts "moves" - anything that looks cool
>     will do.
>
>   * Shoot various weapons (these would be separate models - or
>     added to human.ac under a switch node).
>
>   * Walk, Run, Jump, Land(eg from a fall)
>
>   * Climb a ladder, Swim, Ski.
>
>   * Dive to the ground, get up again.
>
>   * Crouch down (as to place something on the floor), get up again.
>
>   * Rolls and gymnastic flips (as if to dodge a bullet - as if you
>     actually could! :-).
>
>   * Die (in a variety of creative ways - falling forwards, blown away
>     backwards, or even slump, take a couple of steps, collapse to knees,
>     say "Tis a cruel, cruel world" then fall flat on face!)
>
>   * Anything else that you can think of. :-)
>
> Any '.bones' files that would result would be released with 'ExPoser'
> under a "do whatever you like with these" kind of a license (licensing
> data is tricky)...so I'd expect these moves to start showing up in
> other games.
>
> For consistancy, load 'human.ac' and then 'human.bones' as a starting
> point (so all of our bones files have the same names for the various
> joints).
>
> Bones files are tiny - so please email these to me at
> <sjb...@ai...> and I'll coordinate the distribution
> of them - with appropriate accreditation.
>
> If everyone does just one or two, we'll be done in a day!
>
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