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TazMan
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Posted: 27th Mar 2016 15:12
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I decided to have a go at a character for GamGuru and had in mind a Viking Character, I have finished the modeling, Boned and Skinned it. What I am not sure about is what type of animations should I do and what format should the animations take.

IE is there a certain way that it is done in GG. As I have said this is my first so I have no idea what to do next, can anyone help.

Here is the character so far:
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Posted: 28th Mar 2016 19:49
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Oh! Taz you are not alone. LOL
Would be nice someone with the related knowledge, giving some tips about.

Meantime since your viking (Z-Brush?) is like a midieval char, so you can take a look to IE: Assassin (1).fpe file, there are the anims used, perhaps gives some clues, since you already know that, takes my comments like I'm someone bored, with nothing to do. LOL.

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Posted: 28th Mar 2016 22:45 Edited at: 28th Mar 2016 22:47
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well i should at least make the basic animations, like walk, run, a idle one,attack offcourse, and dead.
The more you make is offcourse up to you and what you want to achieve.
when ready , convert it\save as fbx (2010) version. then you can bake the animations to it.and open it in fragmotion, and save it from there as a xfile.
or save it as fbx. and reimport that fbx and export it in you 3d program to x, if possible.(3dsmax)

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ps a real cool character you made. awesome
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Posted: 29th Mar 2016 06:21
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very nice work. The face looks so detailed
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Posted: 29th Mar 2016 10:39
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@3Com Thanks for that I actualy used MudBox 2016 to create this model. I did have a look at one of the character fpe's but I did not think to look at Assasin (1), thanks for the suggestion.

@Harry Yes I thought that I would start with the usual suspects walk, run, idle one, attack offcourse, and dead. Thnaks for the advice.

@=VX=Doggy Thanks for the the things you said, I am actualy going to do a bit more work on the face so that it looks a bit better.
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Posted: 29th Mar 2016 14:15
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You could always take a skeleton from an existing character. This would mean having to reskin the model, but it would have all the stock animations and would work with the default ai scripts.
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Posted: 30th Mar 2016 01:13
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Very nice!
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Posted: 30th Mar 2016 11:05
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Thanks for all the advice everyone, I assume I would use Fragmotion to get the skeleton from one of the original characters and is this allowed if I was to sell the model afterward.
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Posted: 30th Mar 2016 19:58
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Quote: " and is this allowed if I was to sell the model afterward."


I asked about this a while ago and the answer was yes.
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Posted: 31st Mar 2016 15:28
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Thanks Gtox
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Posted: 31st Mar 2016 20:11
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My pleasure. The stickied thread at the top of the 3rd Party Models/Media Chat section, called 'Game Guru Character Animations: FBX format' has the relevant info.
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