silverblade33 opened this issue on Jun 19, 2005 ยท 11 posts
silverblade33 posted Sun, 19 June 2005 at 12:39 PM
IIRC, someone did manage to work out how to get an imported Poser animated character to follow a terrain as an eco-system object?
Lost lot of stored tips when HD died few weeks ago :(
Anyone recall how to do it? :)
Message edited on: 06/19/2005 12:40
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wabe posted Mon, 20 June 2005 at 2:25 AM
God bless HD. Have you tried to Eco an animated character? I wonder what happens there, if it is clever it would walk on the terrain. But our genius Philippe should know! HEY PHILIPPE, WAKE UP!!!
One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.
silverblade33 posted Mon, 20 June 2005 at 5:43 AM
lol, HD = HardDrive ;) Two drives dead in 4 months, grrrr yah i did the marching legion, animated eco ;) but trying to get it so they follow terrain... it's easy for aeroplanes etc, sicne they don 't have to EXACTLY follow the ground (put them on an invisible plane, have plane animated to follow ground)
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wabe posted Mon, 20 June 2005 at 5:58 AM
Then how about animating aeroplanes? Regarding HD - maybe you have a killer applikation on your system? You definetely need Philippe the magician!
One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.
jwhitham posted Tue, 21 June 2005 at 12:45 PM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12368&Form.ShowMessage=2184420
See the above thread for a link to a Python script.
Phoul posted Tue, 21 June 2005 at 1:33 PM
Sorry Whalter, I am not the specialist about python sripting... ;-)
Thank you jwhitham for sharing again the good links, the good way!
Philippe
silverblade33 posted Wed, 22 June 2005 at 5:59 AM
thanks a ton, jwhitham! :))
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jwhitham posted Wed, 22 June 2005 at 1:08 PM
Attached Link: http://www.jwhitham.plus.com/Leader.py
Glad to be of help. I've just put up another script at the link above. This one allows you to set an animated object as 'leader' and an eco as 'follower'. All objects in the eco will then mimic the movements and rotations of the leader.
Phoul posted Thu, 23 June 2005 at 1:27 PM
Wouaw. Thank you very much John. I'll try that new py.
jwhitham posted Thu, 23 June 2005 at 4:23 PM
I've just uploaded a slight update, kills the 'global already referenced' warning print to console, no change to functionality though. To be fair, the basic leader idea was Pascal at e-on's, not mine.
This isn't compatible with Hypervue as is. Hypervue requires a Startup script be set, and that's not compatible with the prompt dialogs. If you need to use with HyperVue let me know and I'll add the necessary bits.
jwhitham posted Sat, 25 June 2005 at 7:20 PM
Attached Link: http://www.jwhitham.plus.com/VuePython.html
Now added a new(ish) script. See the bottom of the page at above link.Similar to the last, but uses terrain height + instance offset, rather than 'leader' z position to set instance positions.
Not so easy to explain, here's a link to a demonstration avi (DivX 5.1):