Milkshape Troubles

smarcus6 · Member Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 101 Location: australia

Could anyone help me with creating a dts animation in milkshape?

the internet tutorials have not help much so far.
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elfprince13 · Posted: 20 Feb 2010 12:12:08 pm Post subject:

You need to set key frames for the vertices that you want animated at different points along the time line. You can have multiple animation sequences on the same timeline, and they will be broken up at export.
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smarcus6 · Member Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 101 Location: australia

how do i do this? when i tryed this last time im pretty sure milkshape crashed
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GreyMario · Advanced Newbie Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 44

Solution: Blender.

Which is ten million times better than Milkshape.

lafferjm · Posted: 22 Feb 2010 11:15:32 am Post subject:

Yes blender is good, but can be very confusing at first.
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smarcus6 · Member Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 101 Location: australia

Nvrm i worked out how to do the animations... and... i wasn't doing it right :3 well... now i need to know how I'm suppose to make TGE play the animation...

i know its something to do with the %obj.playthread(0, whatever); thing and it having to be a datablock or something but its not working...

i tried to use a vehicle datablock script to test it... but... TGE crashes and doesn't show the error in console. all it says is that it compiles it then loads it... then TGE crashes. (and that when i try to launch a mission)

am i doing the wrong thing by using a vehicle datablock? and or should i try something else with loading it?...

here is the animation I'm trying to do:
http://www.box.net/shared/4706tfbmiz

Fairly basic but I'm just trying to work out what i need to do for it to compile...
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elfprince13 · Posted: 17 Mar 2010 06:59:58 am Post subject:

Which DTS exporter are you using? And how are you configuring your DTS export options? Making a vehicle also requires certain nodes to be present in your model.
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elrunethe2nd · Posted: 17 Mar 2010 11:12:45 am Post subject:

Ultimate Dev'r · Posted: 17 Mar 2010 05:03:14 pm Post subject:

smarcus6 · Member Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 101 Location: australia

i use the MS3D Torque Dts Plus... and i export it how it is. plus it has no texture... so that might be a problem...
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elfprince13 · Posted: 22 Mar 2010 11:16:59 am Post subject: