can someone from VALVe give any input on this? we have a few models in which this system is not working properly and need to find out why that is.
thanks, - Rob. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Harwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] pev->sequence, pev->gaitsequence > so the bone parenting stuff is what effects it in the model? I.e for the > legs you need the tops of the legs to be children of the right bone in order > for sequence and gaitsequence to work correctly (or something to that > effect)? > > - Rob. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pat Magnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 1:26 AM > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] pev->sequence, pev->gaitsequence > > > > > > > > > Can anyone go into how these work exactly, and how they work with the > > > models. i.e Does gaitsequence control the leg animations only? If so > > > > Not 'exactly', but you have the correct idea, pev->sequence is the > > upper torso (shoot/hold weapon, etc), and pev->gaitsequence is the > > legs. I found the code in player.cpp (setanimation() function I > > believe) to be easy enough to modify for our needs. > > > > how > > > does the engine know which are the leg animations and which are the > > torso > > > animations? > > > > Just a sort of guess, but it probably plays the sequence animation from > > the pelvis bone (bip_01 I think is the name) 'up', and the pev- > > >gaitsequence from there down, blending the two. > > > > For example, if the player is holding a shotgun (pev->sequence is set > > to 'ref_aim_shotgun'), and running (pev->gaitsequence is set to 'run'), > > then the upper torso does whatever animation (if any) is in that > > sequence, and all bones lower down are acted on by the run sequence. > > > > How it actually works isn't required to successfully use the interface, > > so I have yet to trace through any implementation details that we have > > available, if any :). > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > Rob. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
