I am wondering when it will be possible to import/use our own Animated characters.

I've been wondering this also but I would have thought we should be able to do this v7.

I hope its v7 lol, as I have heard it now that the horror pack will not have characters in it on release .

i hope so to would be nice to mess about with our own stuff until new characters comes out.

I would be interested in knowing what the current options we have for animated .x files. There already appears to be some support for this because there are animated doors and gates and the fpe file specifies what the animation ranges are. However, I haven't found a 3rd party .x file yet that will actually animate in FPSCR. It would be nice to know why this is the case and what can be done about it to get them to work.

This is how far i can get with my models

Looks cool. I wish I knew a way to get my 3rd party .x models to animate. They just stand there and do nothing. But at least they don't crash.

Great characters. A giraffe, now you can make a fan game of Last of Us!



V1.007 will give you the power to make these move!

Great news Rick i was hopping that but want sure.

LUA commands for animating and moving your entities:



MoveUp(entity index,amount) - move the specified entity upwards by amount

MoveForward(entity index,amount) - move the specified entity forward by amount

MoveBackward(entity index,amount) - move the specified entity backward by amount

ModulateSpeed(entity index,speed) - alter the move and animation speed of entity

SetAnimation(entity index) - set an animation index value for later use

SetAnimationFrames(entity index,v) - set an animation range for later use

PlayAnimation(entity index) - play the animation index or range as previously set

LoopAnimation(entity index) - loop the animation index or range as previously set

StopAnimation(entity index) - stop the animation for the specified entity

SetAnimationSpeed(entity index,speed) - set the animation speed of the entity

GetAnimationFrame(entity index) - get the animation frame number from the entity

Those are great commands and I can't wait to get my hands on them, but why no rotate? It's going to be pretty clunky if the object can only move forwards/backwards/up/down, but only be facing a single direction.

@tomjscott : Fair point Anyone else planning to use rotation in LUA?

Ahh nice thanks for the commands lee and i have a few uses for rotation

Rotation would be very useful I would have thought.



Surely there is need for more. e.g. move sideways? even move at angle perhaps unless a combination of forward and sideways (strafe) could achieve that.



There must be others I am sure users will find need for without doubt.



In any case Rotate would be good Yes.

I could do with rotate as well, finish off and idea I have nicely !

yes for roatate too

Good point and it makes me wonder why we are getting functions like move forward/back and move up/down. Why not just be able to getxyz and setxyz? That combined with rotation commands getxyzrot and setxyzrot then you could move an entity any way you want. I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but these are basic concepts from day one of 3D programming.



Edit: Based on your vision statement and myself being a senior software engineer and 3D programmer, I am one who is going to kick you in the pants from time to time and hold you to a higher standard. I am behind this product 100% and want it to be the best it can be.

@tomjscott : When using a physics system, you cannot simply 'set' a position in real-time without a performance penalty. Instead you apply forces and motion to the object to move it elegantly through the physical geometry in very small increments. The eff

Thanks, it is much appreciated. I will make great use of this in my contest entry.