Animating Question

Drfuzzy

<div class="IPBDescription">stupid smoothing crap.</div> Is there a way to turn off the animation-smoothing stuff so the animations go a bit more "chunky" so i can do my doom sprite weapons, i cant do them cause they wana move in and out a bit cause the animating in MS3D is programed to smooth itself out between frames, and becomes a huge problem sometimes.

K im done feeling like a noob now ^_^

Delarosa

could you do double animations, and sorta "trick" the smoothing?

example (in keyframe #)

1 - 1 - 2- 2- 3- 3...

this wouldn't un-do the smoothing, but it would be DEFENATLY choppy...

Billy_Silverfish

Sounds like you might actually be referring to the HL view bob, in which case the only fix for it is to turn it off in the console - which affects all v_models. I think the command is cl_bob 0.

edit: though I guess you could also be referring to some way you're switching between frames in the "2d" anim.

Drfuzzy

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edit: though I guess you could also be referring to some way you're switching between frames in the "2d" anim. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No.

Between 30 frames if you put one key frame at one spot, and another at the middle, and another at the end of the frames with the model moved in a L position, it will try to smooth the L more like a half a U.

And trying to trick it will not work when you have 500 frames for a fire animation. (Required AT LEAST for a sprite weapon)

ZeroByte

500 frames? I'm not sure if that would even play properly. I think the way Del described is what you want. Here's a handy dandy illustration of the technique.

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timeline
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1        12    23     34    4
keyframes
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Let's say keyframe 1 is the frame that brings the first sprite forward . You make a copy of the frame and put it beside the keyframe that moves the first sprite out of the way. That way, there is no time for the smoothing to take place.

Drfuzzy

I would copy, but there is time in between frames you know so i cant make a sprite weapon 30 frames or you will see it moving in between each frame. I know what im doing w/ the frames, i just need a way to turn off this smoothing bull.

ZeroByte

Ohhh okay, I think I see where you're going with this now. That thing is the ingame interpolation and I don't think you can turn it off. However, you could try playing about with the FPS value in the QC files. Lowering the FPS might help hide the interpolation.

Drfuzzy

Its not ingame for the millionth time, i couldent care less about the bob.

Im inches from letting you all animate this so you can see what i mean.

ZeroByte

Well the animation will be ultimately be done by the HL engine. Turning off interpolation in milkshape would be useless tbh. The method del and I described ought to do what you want in the HL engine.

Drfuzzy

HL engine dont touch animations besides the bobing when you run.

Unless you have a bone controller, of course, but that has to be coded for something like a turret