Animating 3d characters and converting them to shps.

Radaral · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 26 Feb 2007

I'm new to this. are there any scripts I need? and also how do you animate?

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

-create a 3d model
-add bones
-connect the 3dmodel to the bones (search for "rigging" and "skinning" tutorials)
-use ik-solver to make the bones of legs and arms work realistic
-use keyframes (3dsmax) to set the animation steps of the ik-solver and single bones
-render the animation into single frames
-convert the single frames into a shp using SHP-Builder or XCC-Mixer

3dsmax rigging tutorial

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Radaral · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 26 Feb 2007

Are there any scripts that make it easy? Like a 3d to shp quick render that makes a blue instead of black background? or a 3ds to voxel script? I think the best way for me to learn this stuff is youtube but thanks for telling me what to look for.

Augusto · Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 1:39 am Post subject:

Im need to know what are the face angles of 3DS models to convert into infantry SHP...

Orac · Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 3:48 am Post subject:

DonutArnold's RA2 and TS render templates are good for the making the background blue thing. They do regular TS/RA2 building lighting, though, rather than messing with the shadow locations.

I believe Raminator or someone made an infantry creation kit too.

Radaral · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 26 Feb 2007

Where do I get donutarnold's ra2 template?

Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 5:58 am Post subject: for rigging

has good videos to learn how to rig.
http://www.traptcg.com/

believe these are the templates

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