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You're gonna need HeatHazeWithAlphaDepth.vfp if you want to use material from the video.
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You can download all the files here.
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Here's a 50-frame md3 waves animation with animated texture.
I used this experimental shader by SteveL with addition of specular reflections. It looks great on the shore. Too bad that further away all the reflections and refractions are masked leaving only the diffusemaps.
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I used 2 frames just as an example. What I really want to do is to have an ocean with 50 frames that plays at 24-30 FPS. I want to bake normalmap for each frame so I would like them to align, although it's not super important. At 60 FPS I would need twice as many frames for a nice loop and I thought that would be an overkill.
I used sys.wait(1); and they still don't synchronize perfectly.
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I'm trying to wrap my head around this.
{ setShaderParm(8, currentFrame); currentFrame = (currentFrame + 1) % numFrames; sys.waitFrame(); }Does this depend on current FPS? I made a test md3 with two frames. I want to play one frame per second. I also would like to animate texture so that first image is displayed exactly at frame one and second image at frame two. I could add sixty of these: sys.waitFrame();
{ setShaderParm(8, currentFrame); currentFrame = (currentFrame + 1) % numFrames; sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); sys.waitFrame(); }That will play at roughly 1 FPS.
I use this material:
anim_test { noshadows noimpact nonsolid { if ( (time * 1) % 2 == 0 ) blend blend alpha 1 map textures/anim_test/anim_test_01.tga } { if ( (time * 1) % 2 == 1 ) blend blend alpha 1 map textures/anim_test/anim_test_02.tga } }Time means seconds here?
If I set up the script and material like this they both play at roughly 1 FPS but never exactly in sync. Do I get it right that one is dependent on FPS and other not?
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Nice.
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Yes, I tried to overcome lack of vertex animation by baking cloth physics to bones. Rather tedious. I recall Motorsep trying to hire someone to write a Blender script for that (?)
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Thanks. Indeed, on a modern computer it runs smoothly, although there's a spot where I get less than 50 fps.
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In modern editors you import images to the project and compression is done automatically.
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As Bikerdude said there are ways to preview dds on Windows and as for the modelling editors, they work in Blender at least. If I'm not mistaken using dds should improve loading times.
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Irrelevant for the system. C'est la vie.
It's not irrelevant that the man who won not only didn't get half of all votes, but got less votes than the opponent. He should be reminded of it every time he comes up with a stupid idea.
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Apparently Clinton got more votes than Trump.
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@nbohr1more, Trump and Hillary are good pals. This whole "nasty woman, crooked Hillary" thing was just for show.
@Springheel, of course he's an elite. He's going to cut taxes for rich and take away insurance from poorest Americans. Take that the establishment!
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"Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country."
Wait, what? I thought he's going to put her in prison? I guess now he doesn't have to pander to the angry mob anymore.
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In my opinion it's more important that 25 million Americans still have an insurance after the election.
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It's astonishing to me how many people see Trump suitable for the most important office in the world. This troglodyte makes George W. look like an intellectualist.
He knows nothing about the world, probably hasn't read a book since school, yet people seem to think he will solve their problems? He knows that Kim Kardashian "has a fat ass" but hasn't heard the word Brexit a month before the referendum? He wants to cut taxes, but increase military spending? Well, he has to be an economic expert, cause he's "good with money", right? Building a 1000 miles long concrete wall on the border with Mexico as a flagship idea? That alone should turn this guy into a laughing stock. Harassing naked teenage girls in a dressing room? No problem for Mr Trump.
He's like a narcissistic ten-year-old boy trapped in a body of an old man. A poor man's idea of a successful person.-
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I just saw a video about history of the "Highland Gate" in Gdańsk (it's in polish). It was built in 1588. At 1:08 a 3d animation starts, showing how the gate first looked. Napoleon thought of taking it with him to Paris. In 1895 the dike and moat were removed. The gate survived WW2.
In 1946:
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Normally you need an IK in the application you're making the animations with, along with other tools that make animating easier. They don't get exported to the game however, as the animation is "baked". In-game IK is another thing.
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Whatever the max and maya exporters are doing, I believe Blender exporters do it diferently. From my experience Blender doesn't mess with joint rotations on export. Horse for example was made in Blender from scratch and when you import md5 back to editor you can see that bones are not rotated 90 degrees, like in original Doom 3 md5:
Also Blender doesn't optimize animations so the files are rather heavy.
It should be possible to edit the generated bones so they look nice (the way bones look in animation programs is mostly to make it more human readable, all they really need is position and rotation information).
You can connect the joints in Blender:
However this causes some problems. Here for example bones generated on import seem to be linked by wrong ends (?):
What's more important, animations created in Blender with a modified skeleton will not match md5.mesh exported from max. That's why I made a new armature for proguard, which then controls the imported md5 joints. I based it on the character fbx files that are on our repositories. Someone could export the werebeast from MAX to fbx format. Blender has no problems reading those. Then you have couple of options:
- Like I did, make (veeery painstakingly) a control rig to animate the imported md5 skeleton. You would need to assign copy rotation and location constraints, so that one skeleton follows the other. This way would be compatible with animations exported from 3ds max.
- Make animations with the nice rig in Blender, then export both md5mesh and md5anim. This however will not be compatible with 3ds max, because of different joint rotations. You will still want to have some constraints, IK chains in your rig and so on, which requires some knowledge.
- You can use one of the Blender plugins like rigify or blenrig and create your own flexible, professional rig. One would have to know how to "skin" the character (assign weights to bones) and how to use those plugins. This options completely disregards Diego's rig.
You can also:
- Animate with what you got. It will be difficult, and result will suck, but hey! It's possible. I have made on or two animations for TDM like that
- Pay someone to make a md5 export script that works exactly like the one from max.
- Buy 3ds max and work there using original Diego's file.
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- Like I did, make (veeery painstakingly) a control rig to animate the imported md5 skeleton. You would need to assign copy rotation and location constraints, so that one skeleton follows the other. This way would be compatible with animations exported from 3ds max.
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That's how joints look when exported to md5. For some reason, exporters rotate joints, making them almost impossible to animate. Doom 3 character models look the same when imported. Interesting that Blender md5 exporters don't do that.
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I used Blender 2.49b to import the files.
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There's plenty of tutorials. This one has been posted just couple of days ago:
The problem with physics simulations is that they don't naturally loop so you have to use some tricks to do that. You could make a simple flag with a wave modifier too, but it wouldn't be as realistic.