New animation

Syd · wrote on 11 Jun 2008, 13:24

i have test something with the orginal ships and find out the extent wing animations is in some ships included
i´ve made a vid:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=CDJtW-HvbEw

i include it over the loot animation, but i have 2 question:
1. is there a way to use it by a hotkey
2. is it possible to add the animation in other ship, and how

i hope someone can help me

Tunicle · wrote on 11 Jun 2008, 15:39

Nice, sorry no answers just a 8):D

Could you link it to entering cruise speed as your engine powers up?

BBalazs · wrote on 11 Jun 2008, 18:56

If I recall correctly the Defender also had retractable wings. Problem is I’ve no clue how to get these to work; best would be linking them to the docking sequence, though (which sounds fairly impossible, from what I know).

LancerSolurus · wrote on 11 Jun 2008, 19:36

The Starflier has this as well, the wings will fold out when launching. It is in the animation section of the CMP.

Syd · wrote on 11 Jun 2008, 19:56

i dont find extend wings for Starflyer…
and the Animation for the defender isn´t in the li_elite.cmp

LancerSolurus · wrote on 11 Jun 2008, 19:56

It only seems to work on the smallest stations.

Bejaymac · wrote on 11 Jun 2008, 21:12

Eh LS the starflier only has baydoor animations in the CMP

LancerSolurus · wrote on 11 Jun 2008, 21:18

Oops, my bad then, I know its one of the light fighters that has it, I flew out of the station in Dresden and the wings folded out. It was over a year ago, guess that memory got overwritten

Bejaymac · wrote on 11 Jun 2008, 22:10

There are only 2 ships with a wing animation, they are -

br_elite - Sc_extend wing
rh_elite - Sc_extend wing

Most vanilla player flyable ships have a baydoor animation, the five BIG capships have a docking bay animation, of the smaller capships only the li_cruiser has an animation node, and that’s for the recoil from it’s main gun. There are a couple of baydoor/docking bay animations in the utility ships, along with one or two special animations for clamps, drill arms etc.

Wolfie · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 13:04

no…the defender got it too…just need 2 find it

here ya go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3opK9ukMe0

u see? the defender got them

Bejaymac · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 14:11

Wolfie I’ve been through every CMP & 3DB in the game studying the animation in an attempt at making my own, believe me when I say that the defender (li_elite) only has baydoor animation in the CMP.

Just out of interest, is that video one of the early (pre beta) promo vids

Wolfie · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 15:06

awww…i like the defender one ;D

Syd · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 15:22

@wolfie: yes this vid inspirate me to test it, but my defender .cmp ist not the same

this vid is the E3 2001 trailer, so i think it was a beta

but i open the thread because i want to know HOW i can add animations in the cmp

Wolfie · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 15:44

now how did u do this?

and yes…im curios about this aswell

ohh and…i experimented a little with no results…just usual FL

? Offline · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 15:44

Definately beta. For a start the Omega 13 system is in the video which wasn’t used, some of the other nebulas don’t exist and that planet texture is also not used that you can see. The depot model still has letters on it as well. Planetscape backgrounds were different, and wtf is with the FL disco? I don’t even think Juni was Juni back then either. Shame they removed some of the good stuff and left us with half a game, but there you go

Syd · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 16:14

@Wolfie:

now how did u do this?

and yes…im curios about this aswell

ohh and…i experimented a little with no results…just usual FL

for testing i only replace the “sc_open baydoor” and add “sc_extend wing”

Wolfie · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 17:20

i did…just didnt work

EDIT: typing mistake

Syd · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 17:24

@Wolfie:

i did…just didnt work

EDIT: typing mistake

it only work for Crusader and valkyre, on the other ships the animation is deleted

Wolfie · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 17:56

yes…i know…i did it on valkyrie but it didnt work…because of typing mistake

i had sv instead of sc

Wolfie · wrote on 12 Jun 2008, 18:26

btw…do some1 know how to make the CMP animations?