Animations

**ZRPT** · 09-05-2011, 05:32 PM

(09-05-2011, 04:59 PM)DRedshot Wrote: Hello All!

I've been trying to create some animations in Maya 2011 for a custom enemy I have planned, but i've rn into a few problems, and was hoping somebody could write up a short tutorial for me!

Problem 1: I have rigged and skinned the monster, but when I try to rotate a joint when animating, the joint rotates the wrong way. What I mean by this, is that for example, if I want the ankle to rotate upwards by 10-Degrees, it will rotate downwards 350-Degrees... Can you see the problem? and if so could you guide me to the solution, thanks!

Problem 2: After finishing a few animations (the idle and notice animations) I thought I'd see if it's working in model viewer. It turns out that I can load the model, but I cannot load any animations. I have given them all the .dae_anim extension, but I don't know how to ake the .anm file extension... Also, my animation sizes are about 200kb, compared to the 1000kb sizes of the official monsters... Have I done something wrong?

If someone could guide me through this it would be great!

Okay, well I can't help you out with the first part but what I can say is that you cannot normally view animations in model viewer. You would have to place the monster in a map and see if it works right. I have tried to load animations before and I was also unsuccessful.