posted 07-24-2001 10:55 PM            

Each animation of the object has its internal number read by the game engine. If you switch the objects you should pay attention to matching the animations and their ID. Lets switch tr4crocodile and tr3T-Rex. Attack animation internal number of the crocodile could match Dino’s internal ID animation. ...of walking.
So what you see on the screen is walking or running monster ...which is actually attacking Lara . But you can’t see it because of messed animations.
And by the way T-Rex has two or three animations for attacking Lara. While the crocodile can have just the only one. Here you have the problem.

If tr3 dog’s animations are exactly the same as tr4 dog ( I mean the quantity , the order, and their ID numbers) – it works. (which means Core guys were lazy ...and made some plastic surgery to tr3 dog to get it to tr4)

Maybe the solution is checking all the animations and their ID of all tr4 enemies and compare to the animations of tr3 enemies. And if the animations do not match – ability to change them manually.

If only TRViewer could support tr4 animations – it would be possible. For now it’s just the matter or trial and error.

posted 07-25-2001 08:29 AM               

You are absolutly right, also for each animation (running, wallking, attacking) there is a commands set, (called animcomands), those animcommands SHOULD HAVE TO BE KEEPED for the original TRLE character,
so they can keep the behavior; but i think that tr2wad overwrite these commands for the ones from the imported enemy.

Seems that there is a guy that code a animeditor kind program, (but it only run in linux) check this tread:
http://pub19.ezboard.com/ftreditingzonefrm2.showMessage?topicID=226.topic

check his website at:
http://openraider.sourceforge.net/

TP

posted 07-25-2001 08:48 PM               

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Originally posted by Qudlatopec:
What if T-Rex is indeed attacking Lara, but you guys can’t notice this because the animations are messed?

Each animation of the object has its internal number read by the game engine. If you switch the objects you should pay attention to matching the animations and their ID. Lets switch tr4crocodile and tr3T-Rex. Attack animation internal number of the crocodile could match Dino’s internal ID animation. ...of walking.
So what you see on the screen is walking or running monster ...which is actually attacking Lara . But you can’t see it because of messed animations.
And by the way T-Rex has two or three animations for attacking Lara. While the crocodile can have just the only one. Here you have the problem.

If tr3 dog’s animations are exactly the same as tr4 dog ( I mean the quantity , the order, and their ID numbers) – it works. (which means Core guys were lazy ...and made some plastic surgery to tr3 dog to get it to tr4)

Maybe the solution is checking all the animations and their ID of all tr4 enemies and compare to the animations of tr3 enemies. And if the animations do not match – ability to change them manually.

If only TRViewer could support tr4 animations – it would be possible. For now it’s just the matter or trial and error.

I think we should ask Popov to make his great program support tr4 (and trc).

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