I'm looking for some figures I saw several years ago, a version of Vicki and Mike (1 or 2) that had multiple arms (4, 6, or 8). They werefreebies, but I can't remember where I got them. Now I don't seem to have the figures or the archives anymore, and I'd love to use them in a project I am working on. Does this ring a bell with anybody? I'd love to find them once again.

Guy

!bookmarking!

there was a version in Freebies, I think it had something to do with a Hindu diety..I think..I have it somewhere, but heaven knows where. You could have up to 8 lims as I remember..

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez?Form.Contrib=FC&Topsectionid=0

Don't be fooled by the broken thumbnails, the files were available when I checked.

I didn`t know that they were still available, thank you.

Wow! Thanks. I could have sworn there was a multi-armed Mike, but these'll probably do.

I'm also going to try and see how they've done this trick, and see if I can come up with versions for the Millenium 3 characters. Since I know very little about such things, I doubt I'll be successful, but it may be one of my summer projects.

Guy

Simple...

you need to hack the cr2.  Don't touch the area between the figureResFile...those point to the actual bodyparts of the .obj that you need.  Since you're not creating a new object, you don't need to edit that part.

What you need to do then is copy all the arm parts, from rCollar/lCollar all the way down to the fingers.  Rename each new body part...for example, the new rCollar now becomes r1Collar, r1Shldr, etc.  

A technique is to use Cr2Editor....use a blank M2 file and do a find/replace of all the body parts to the above naming convention.  Save this file as a temp.  Open the temp file AND the target multi-arm file in Cr2Editor.   Then copy/paste the renamed parts from your temp file to the Multi-Arm cr2.  Be sure to follow the hierarchial order:  In the cr2, I'd add the new body parts after the original arm parts, in the same order. 

Finally, be sure to copy the addChild and weld bits at the end of the cr2, under the figure heading.

For morphs, you can use the same technique above.  Use a cr2 with morphed parts...rename all arm bits to the naming convention above.  Save as a temp file.  Two methods here:  use cr2 editor to copy/paste the morphs from temp cr2 to your multi-arm cr2.  Or, use morph manager to copy morphs across...which I find to be much faster.

Hope this helps.

bomdropr, that's great! This'll make a nice summer project (along with all the other summer projects I've got ;-D)

Thanks!

Guy