Penumbra flashlight in Amnesia?

[xiphirx]

Yes, it has the exact penumbra texture, etc. I'm getting Maya right now, will edit the animations and finalize it.

[Frontcannon]

Sounds great. Now if Amnesia only had Dynamic Lightning.. damn, that would be a game.

[Akumasama]

Xiphirx, if you know the correct way to import and export animations, please share here.
I haven't figured it out, and alot of other people also don't know it I geuss...

[xiphirx]

Sounds great. Now if Amnesia only had Dynamic Lightning.. damn, that would be a game.

What do you mean by dynamic? The flashlight casts shadows?

[Frontcannon]

What do you mean by dynamic? The flashlight casts shadows?

Yup

[xiphirx]

Done. ;-) Heheh

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Xiphirx, if you know the correct way to import and export animations, please share here.
I haven't figured it out, and alot of other people also don't know it I geuss...

Don't worry, it's alot easier than it seems ;-) That is if everything goes how I expect.

Here's a dev shot if you're curious :-)

[Alex7754]

xiphirx, you and digi should work together on this. It seems your both trying to make the flashlight work and might be able to combine progress? I think digis flashlight would look better for the model.

[xiphirx]

Alright, so I have the animation in Maya, but I completely forgot how to use it (been abut 2 years since I used Maya)

If you want to edit the animations, it's really easy. Locate the .dae_anim files and just rename them to .dae files. Using Maya just open the .dae file as a scene

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Okay, seems like these files have no effect to the game, which leads me to suspect that the .anim files are the ones we want to edit...

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Huge twist in the story... Turns out that the files in the animations folder aren't even used...

I deleted the folder, ran Amnesia and had the hand animations perfectly in tact...

They're somewhere :|

[xiphirx]

More on animations:

Here's what I've figured out so far.

HOW TO GET AND EDIT ANIMATIONS
- Navigate to models/player/hands/animations
- Choose which state you want to edit (Idle, Draw, Holster)
- Make a duplicate copy of the state you want to edit .dae_anim
- Rename the duplicate copy to something like "myAnimation.dae" Note, the filetype needs to be changed to dae, not dae_anim
- In Maya (I use 2008) goto File > Open Scene > Choose the file you just made, in this example "myAnimation.dae"
- You should now see Daniel's hand, click on the play button and see the animation!
- Edit it as you wish, animation is all keyframes

EXPORTING ANIMATION WHEN DONE
*** Requires ColladaMaya 0.35B Plugin***
- File > Export (Dialog) > choose "COLLADA (.dae .xml)" as the export format > Export > Overwrite the file you are editing ("myAnimation.dae" in this example)

IMPORTING ANIMATION INTO THE GAME
*** NOT DONE ***
- Change the extension of the file you created in the previous step to ".dae_anim"
- Go to the HPL Suite, open the Model Editor
- File > Open > Locate hand.ent in models/Player/hands
- Options > Animations
- Add
- Name it to whatever you like
- Press the "..." and choose your file (remember, with .dae_anim)
- Save the model and close
- Open the model viewer
- Open the hands.ent file once more
- Change the animation to your animation and make sure it is working
- Done!

(Or I think... It doesn't work, at least It didn't work the first time i tried it :|

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Ok, I've successfully edited and imported an Animation. Only problem is, the arm is HUGE.

Whenever I export, it doesn't scale the model down even though I change the scale values... (In the side panel)

Anyone experienced in Maya, please help.

We're definitely are getting there. If only we got help from Jens or Thomas :-(

[DIGI Byte]

Ok, let me wake up and I'll have a look, Xiph... we should work together
im waking up with a orange juice and titan quest

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I had a go at animating, and yeah, there is an issue with scale, I use 3ds Max 9 and when I export the scale is 100x larger then what it should be

I thought this was an issue on my end, The problem is when you export the .Dae file a value is offset somewhere, when you import, the objects are 1/1 scale, but when you export its like 100/1

I thought I made some progress the other night, somehow I halved the scale on it so it was 50/1 but I have no idea what I did to do it, I've played with the scale settings for HOURS and nothing, its always 100/1 on export

you can scale static objects ok, but you can't scale animations properly, funny enough I already have a post over in the technical issues thread about this and it has no replies
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Could you email me your animations so I can look at them? email them to me or post them here, digimbyte@gmail.com