Infantry frames

crevio · Commander **Joined**: 19 Apr 2009

Is it really necessary to have a couple hundred frames for an infantry? isnt there a way to do it with far less frames?
I mean do they really have to shit, piss, barf, pause, smoke a cig, drink a beer, and fall down?

Machine · Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:23 am Post subject:

Technically you could have a 16 frame (maybe even 2) infantry unit, setting all the sequences to start in the frame 0, and give it 1 frame long animation, but it will look like crap.
Anyways, you can still reduce the number of frames easily, after all only firing, walking and dying animations are mandatory. But keep in mind that you still need to include the rest of the sequences, but setting them to already existing animations on your unit, won't hurt; like setting the crawling sequence to be the same as the walking sequence, as an example.

Dark Templar X · Commander **Joined**: 26 Feb 2009

You can set Crawls=no on the art or Fearless=yes on rules. You don't need art.

You only need walking, firing and one death set. Idle, cheer, paradrop, a second death, crawling frames, etc aren't necessary.

crevio · Commander **Joined**: 19 Apr 2009

thanks for the info guys.

Ixonoclast · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:47 am Post subject:

It will look lame, as if you're playing StarCraft.

C&C games need crawl frames and stuff.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

starcraft works different as it uses only 16 frames for a 180° turn from north to south. The other side is then simply mirrored along the north/south axis to get the full 360° rotation. Wink