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Bored of the Rings
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Posted: 24th May 2015 09:38 Edited at: 18th Sep 2015 17:06
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I will do video tutorials soon, these will take time.
Here is a "Part 1" basic text tutorial without using the Character Creator.
You will need Mender 2.0 FRR/Animer 2.2 FRR available on the Game Creator website.
"Part 2" now added below which allows you to use the Character Creator to generate a 3rd person compatible model.

See attached files. The .spn file is not necessary but can be used within Animer to see the animation groups.

Any comments welcome.
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Posted: 24th May 2015 09:42
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great..thank you so much...
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Posted: 24th May 2015 12:55
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Thank you, very much.
and a video tutorial is Always welcome.

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Posted: 25th May 2015 09:09 Edited at: 18th Sep 2015 17:06
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Part 2 tutorial now added to my original post above showing how to generate a 3rd person view character using the Character Creator. Videos to follow soon.
Here's a quick demo video showing a test model "Modern Female Wizard" in TPV which I created in Character Creator. The walking forward looks a bit odd so isn't perfect but it works. I have started making video tutorials in parts and will upload as soon as possible. It may be that by the time the vids are done that Character Creator is updated so that we don't have to do this but I had fun experimenting.
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Posted: 20th Jul 2015 07:29 Edited at: 18th Sep 2015 17:07
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Posted: 21st Jul 2015 14:27
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I realy have not time for deal with charkit yet, but I'm storing all yours vids, waitng for free time. I have holidays in August.
I do not own animer+mender, but as you said Max can do the trick too.

Thanks a lot for sharing tutos with us.

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Posted: 21st Jul 2015 14:50 Edited at: 21st Jul 2015 14:51
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Thanks for your reply 3com yes you don't need to have animer but I have tried fragmotion to merge animations and always come out strange, I use other packages as well such as 3ds max but animer seems easier than most. I am also toying around with maximo and autodesk character generator. The video above doesn't use character kit just in case you were womndering
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