FL Animations

[Mindhunter]

might need some finetunning… ;D

[w0dk4]

@Mindhunter:

might need some finetunning… ;D

I hope you didnt use CShip::open_bay because thats too easy and you lose the normal cargo bay animation

[Sushi]

@Mindhunter:

might need some finetunning… ;D

use your wings…that’s jokes. Nice job, nevertheless!

[Schmackbolzen]

I just saw the videos and did some testing, Mindhunter felt the need to post ^^ Out of simplicity I used open_bay() and to make it even worse I did a quick offset hack in common.dll via hex editor to prevent the shield dropping When I have some spare time (which I have not much atm because of university exams) I will try to call the animations directly (I have isolated the asm part), we will see where that leads

[w0dk4]

hehehe nice

[Sushi]

That sounds awesome. I look forward to see what you can do!

[HunterKiller]

@Mindhunter:

might need some finetunning… ;D

That’s what I was tlking about. Thanks for showing me that. I will try to have that done.

[Schmackbolzen]

The problem I have so far is, thatnamespace DALib{ IMPORT struct IAnimation2* Anim; };seems to be wrong, since the linker searches then for__imp_?Anim@DALib@@3PAUIAnimation2@1@Awhereas it should be```
_imp?Anim@DALib@@3PAUIAnimation2@@A

Edit: Corrected typo...

[w0dk4]

You have a typo there, its

struct IAnimation2 * DALib::Anim

instead of

struct Animation2 * DALib::Anim

[Schmackbolzen]

Yes that’s right, I retraced my attempts (via undo) and it occured before the 2 last so it basicly is only wrong in my quote

[Schmackbolzen]

Ok got it

struct IMPORT IAnimation2{
};
namespace DALib
{
	IMPORT IAnimation2* Anim;
};
```works and leads to the right ASM code, even if it looks stupid :D

[Schmackbolzen]

Latest progress report:

It is still not finished, needs some finetuning etc. but at least it works

[w0dk4]

very good

[tai]

is there any client hooking done?

but it looks cool

[Schmackbolzen]

Thx!
It’s done completely via clienthooking, even the commands I enter are interpreted from the client. As soon as I have completely implemented everything (like animation object deletion etc.) I will change it so the server can start animations. I still have to test whether others see the animation played…

[Schmackbolzen]

Well sadly it is not synced (gotta change that :D). In the meantime I got a modified puddlejumper from our modeller and used it to test how it would look. I really like the result!

[tai]

wow, looks like there’s much potential in this!

[Sushi]

Oh wow, that is awesome It looks like a have a whole bunch of models to do at FW:ToW now!!

[Schmackbolzen]

Yes it really looks cool I hope there is no showstopper burried somewhere, I am not completeley finished with the reverse engineering stuff…

I noticed the video links do not work right now so here is my profile just klick on the v5 test
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[Sushi]

Well thanks for all your effort in this area, mate. I believe many mods will have use for the work you’re doing now. It’s not easy, and damn right frustrating sometimes, I can imagine, but you’re doing it for a great cause, so GO YOU!!