Hi all
Just a quick question,if i make a animated door and its to big for my level will it still work if i rescale it in reloaded.

Dave

Anybody .

Dave

Yes, it will work.

Many thanks for the answer Gtox .

Dave

It might work if it is vertex animation, I really couldn't say with Reloaded but with past experience of animated .x models it is best to have the model scaled correctly before animating particularly if it is a skin modifier and using bones. If you animate then scale you must remove the animation and reset transforms for the mesh then animate again in the modeling app or you will get collision errors and weird envelope issues.

Of course things may be different now but I wouldn't know since, as I say, I try to do it right in the first place and avoid these kind of problems.

Again thanks for the answer rolfy .I was thinking more in terms of doors /fans that sort of thing,very basic animation .

Dqve

It is mainly doors I am referring to, collision is calculated from the first frame of the animation (door closed) the collision envelope does not follow the animation, this is the reason you turn collision off in the script after opening so you can walk through the entry. If you scale the door in the game editor you may find collision has been set to the original scale. Reloaded may compensate for scaling animated dynamic entity's, I wouldn't know for sure, it is always best to have scale set correctly before animating in your modeling app to ensure things work correctly.



You could try and see how it goes but if it doesn't work out then you at least won't waste anymore time trying to fix it via the engine.

What is the possibility of importing .fbx files in the future? Collada .dae?

Almost ALL of my 3D development software outputs and inputs these two formats, so if FPSCR could import them, it would save me a boat load of trouble converting to .x, which almost no serious pro software exports to.

Mike

rolfy is correct in that using the widget scale doesnt effect the collision box - ie. making something bigger will still have a small collision and vice versa however you can scale via script or fpe and the collision will change correctly - just a bit more trial and error than using a nice widget scale i guess.
by script you need to turn collision off and then scale though (this can be done in the init part so it's instant).

Yes, scaling does not work with collision via the editor as yet. Scripts seem to work as stated above. You may have more luck using the scale in the FPE file

When you scale via gizmo, you must has to set collision=0 in fpe file. I've this prroblem with my gttr level (walls).

3com

Thanks for all the answers guys,very helpfull

Dave