Animations!

I just figured out a system to have lua based animation in game. So I wanna do animations with it.

Essentially we can have any sort of animation. In fact, I encourage you to do your own animations, use this: http://heavy.noxiousnet.com/boneanimlib_v3.zip
The animation editor is pretty simple to use, it's just "move bone, set bone". Essentially all you need to know is that sequences set you on a T-Pose, and gestures run once, and you shouldn't bother with anything else. If you wanna do like a mixed sequence with a gesture, just register all your animations and add it as a sub animation.

But if you don't have animating talents, then you can just suggest me an animation to do ( I won't do sexposes ). Some ideas that I had in mind were:

Unarmed Combat:

• Punch
  
• Block
  
• Kick
  
• Grab
  
• Kung fu kick
  

Idle Animations with personalities (Like, angry idle, sad idle, stuff like that )

Swimming.

Sword slash, block, lunge.

Leaning. Different kinds of leaning, since so many people on here lean on some random surface, without it really seeming to matter what it is.

VioletSerpent wrote:

I've... I've actually taken courses in 3D animation and have 3DSMax, so I know my way about it. Is it single-frame animation, where a person snaps to the position, or does it cover actually having someone lean against something?

All animations are just skeletal. Nothing fancy like inverse kinematics and crazy crap like that. The system uses transitions everywhere, so it's actually much easier to use than most animation programs, since it kinda fills in the blanks for you. It's pretty easy to use, I recommend you install it, just extract cl_animeditor to autorun/client, and put the rest of the files inside a folder you'll create within garrysmod/garrysmod/lua called "boneanimlib_v2"

Oh god if we had custom animations that would be like, immense.

VioletSerpent wrote:

Transitions? Sounds weird to me. Are you sure you're not talking about it simply having a small selection of frames?

It's keyframe based, with the editor filling in the interpolation between those keyframes. You know, like using tween in Flash.