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[psiiijay]

Hi all - I wanna try creating my own animations for the game using Gmax. I know it works with only 6,7,8 versions and I wanted to know which one is best to work on and easiest to import nwn2 files from.

 

got windows 8 btw 

[Tchos]

The NWN2 import and export tools work with the most recent version of Gmax.  However, the animation export tools don't work with Gmax at all.  You need 3ds Max 6-8 for that.

[-Semper-]

perhaps he wants to animate to create pre-rendered videos for his spells. in this case there's no engine export needed.

if that's the case i would choose blender as your animation/rendering package. it's way more advanced and user friendly than gmax in that regard.

[Tchos]

True.  If you're talking about creating animation for the spell movies you were planning before, Psiiijay, then never mind what I said.

[psiiijay]

Actually for the spell movies I probably could find enough great material on the web itself - In that department the only thing I'm missing are huge explosion animations like hellball in nwn1 to fire after the spell movie ends (LIke in final fantasy 7 where you see a dragon firing a blast and after the clip ends you see the blast hitting the target - so same. 

 

About the animations - there are a few animations I really need to add to the game. But I was confused before - I now have 3ds max 8 - I get I need gmax and importer exporter.. Anything else? 

[Tchos]

If you have 3ds Max, you don't need Gmax.  Gmax is a stripped-down free version of 3ds Max.  You need the Expotron plugin and Granny DLL to export animation to the format NWN2 uses.

[psiiijay]

Right, I now just started - I got everything and I opened a nwn2 skeleton with ds max 8. Figured out how to move and animate basic movements but I have no idea how to actually use everything- lets say there's a skeleton and an idle animation - isn't that 2 files for one thing? pulse - lets say I wanna add a new character animation -   How do I make it compatible with cloaks? (cloths are just a part of the body I guess so no need to make that compatible..)

[psiiijay]

http://forum.bioware.../#entry19377867

[Eguintir Eligard]

there was a custom animation creating guide back on the old vault. It was apparently quite easy and should be tried by many according to the document author. I believe it goes step by step to creating a few new human movements.

[psiiijay]

Yeah - I remember something like that... I'll look into it..