Looking good.

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do you know of any good tutorials for animation?

-Dave

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Dave

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Other than the max help files, not off the top of my head.

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Basic animation tutorial: Press the autokey button, drag the timeslider to frame 20 and rotate your turret 45 degrees. Turn off autokey, scrub to frame 0 and press play to see animation.

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i like the idea but needs more details.its look like a toy and not like something that hurt.

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Nice work looks good cant wait to see the end result

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@ervis: it's not finished yet.

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Dave

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@Steve: thanks for the tip...working on the animation now!

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Dave

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here's the first draft of the animation:

[Link to www.fileden.com]

how come the hatch, antenna, and the guns start moving at the start of the animation instead of the frame that they're supposed to start at (when the turret stops it's ascent)?

-Dave

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Dave

"I came! I slept! I went home!"

Are you hand animating each piece, or are the hatch, antenna and guns linked to the main body of the turret?

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Rick

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each is separate...otherwise i wouldn't be able to move them at all.

-Dave

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Dave

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Have you ever tried "Linking" objects? You'll use it alot when animating. I found a neat little video tutorial that shows you, but it looks like you would be better off linking all of your items to the main body of the turrent and then animate those objects when the turrent reaches it's stop position. It will keep you from having to animate every item.

[Link to revver.com]

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Rick

[Link to www.3dartconcepts.com]

k thanks. i'll have a look at it later.

-Dave

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Dave

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I would just group them then animate the group controller. But I am le slack.

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i would do the same...one problem though...i don't know how! it's my first 3d animation. all my others are done in fireworks or as i used to make them, in powerpoint.

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Dave

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select all the objects together, then go menu Group->Group. Then it acts as one object.

To split them up again just use Ungroup.

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oops! i was talking about linking, not grouping!
do you mean that i should make them a group and then lets say...40 frames in, i should break up the group and animate them separately?

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Dave

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2secs, it would probably help if I watched the animation haha.

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Right I see what youre doin now. Grouping wont work.

You proabably need to insert an extra key before the frame you want them to start, so that it holds its position until that point, then starts to move. If that makes sense.

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i posted a link in an earlier reply...btw 40 frames is a major exaggeration.

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Dave

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oops! double post!

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Dave

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my problem is getting one thing to stop before another begins. do you guys know how to make it that something starts moving at a certain point and end at a certain point instead of just determining the end point?

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Dave

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Can you get track view in gmax?

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with the bar thing on the bottom? if not, show a pic.

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Dave

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nvr mind, i found the track view option...now what?

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Dave

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k. i figured out how to use track view...i might have a finished animation tonight

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Dave

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Sorry didn't get back to ya man. Glad you found it.

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i've scrapped the entire animation until the update of the model is complete! instead of coming out of a box, the turret will come out of a ship.

-Dave

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Dave

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I thought the chat thing was supposed to eliminate these long threads?

Dave, that looks freakishly like my first animation

[Link to au.youtube.com]

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i can't see your animation. it says that the video is no longer available.

oh yeah, i would use chat, except nobody's ever logged in.

EDIT: now i can see it. it's a good thing that the turret's on a ship now instead of coming out of a box like yours!

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Dave

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here's the current look of the animation:

[Link to www.fileden.com]

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Dave

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Looking better. Did you like the objects together or something else?

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Rick

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i used them separately because i don't really know how to link them.

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Dave

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with the barrels comming out of the "gun" a little trick I've used before is to set the material in the animation to clear/see-thru/invisible, them when they are comming out you can add the color/texture back so they come out and texture themselves. not sure if this is the easiest way but it works for me! hehe

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