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I have a model, need quick help

by Jesse P · in Artist Corner · 07/28/2008 (10:56 pm) · 8 replies

I have an animated weapons model from the mod maker weapons pack, what I need to do is shave off the back half of the buttstock from the model because it sticks through the rear of my player when in 3rd person mode. I don't know a thing about 3d studio max but I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to cut off the end of the buttstock for me in max if I send them the .max file with animations and all and then send it back to me in .dts

Please email me at jpetrilla@mail.com if you can help me out. Thanks
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Torque Owner Mike Rowley
Mike Rowley
#1
07/29/2008 (1:09 pm)
Can't you just adjust the offset in the weapons script to fix this?

Torque Owner Jesse P
#2
07/29/2008 (2:02 pm)
For some reason it isn't working, I tried it. It appears to be father but when the weapon reloads it still shows the exact same animation when in 3rd person

Torque Owner Mike Rowley
Mike Rowley
#3
07/29/2008 (2:24 pm)
That's odd, as the weapons offset is supposed to move it so it looks correct.
I'd suggest writing to the mod maker and ask them what's wrong. Packs sold for torque should work as expected. (unless the pack wasn't made for torque, then what I just said was mute. :p )

Torque Owner Jesse P
#4
07/29/2008 (3:17 pm)
It is from the modmaker weapons pack. Playing around with it I see that when I change the eyeoffset it only changes the location of the weapon when in first person mode, but when I press Z and rotate around to look at the player in 3rd person the weapon is always mounted in the same place. Is there another offset for that?

Torque Owner Jesse P
#5
07/29/2008 (3:19 pm)
Fixed it! haha man was that luck! I just typed offset = "0 0 0" instead of eyeoffset to see what it would do. It worked! I've got some tweaking and playing around to do though but apparently that controls the actual offset of the actual model rather than just what it looks like when in 1st person

Torque Owner Jesse P
#6
07/29/2008 (3:24 pm)
Man it moves like crazy though when I do that because of the player model's breathing.....hmmm
This is weird, I got some trial and error testing to do...

Torque Owner Jesse P
#7
07/29/2008 (3:28 pm)
Figured it out.

Solution:

offset = "0 0 0"; // Whatever the physical offset will be
eyeOffset = "0.222857 0.497143 -0.302857"; // Whatever the offset will look like when in first person

must be sure to put the eyeOffset AFTER the offset

At least I think that was it, oh well hey it works now

Torque Owner Mike Rowley
Mike Rowley
#8
07/29/2008 (6:16 pm)
Hey, glad you got it figured out. :)
Thanks for posting your fix too. It will help others who have the same problem.