[QUESTION] Animations?

Homeworld Remastered Collection Homeworld Mods and Modding
#1

Hello,

How implementable are animations? Could animations such as the ones below feasibly be implemented into HW:RM?

-A bomber has a bomb bay. The bay opens up, tosses a missile out, the bomb bay closes and the missile darts off to its target.
-Moving parts on turrets. (recoil
-Vectored thrust engines rotating with a ship’s movement patterns (Think, fins on the back of Vaygr carriers, or the US F-22’s engines)
-Moving parts on ships, possibly parts folding in during docking (Think, the fins on the Taiidan interceptor folding in during docking.) I would assume there is no limit for how detailed these ones can get, given that they are already in the game.
-Wings folding in during fast movement. Like, could a fighter’s wings fold in once it reaches its top speed? (Think, the US F-14’s wings)

I might think of a few that are escaping my mind at the moment… But for nowwww, are animations such as these implementable?

#2

Everything on that list is doable, except the speed based one. If tehre’s a way to do that, I’m unaware of it. Though currently exporting animations from blender does not quite seem to be working.

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#3

Neat! What about exporting from other programs, such as Maya?

#4

3dsMax does it well enough I believe. If you have access to it, it’s probably your best bet in general for exports.

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#5

Have a look at http://hw2wiki.net/wiki.hw2.info/ScopeMadstate.html - “madstate” = animation type.

Here’s the only one I have done so far:

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#6

Karos will be more complete for now, but I’ve started re-adding some of the information to the HWMOD wiki as well.

You might be able to do the speed dependent animation using the customcode function? There’s also a “FlightManuevers” animation state that might be useable. Or you could use the Open/Close states if you simply want to tie it to whether the ship is moving or not.

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#7

Strangely I found yesterday that when I play a custom single player “extra” mission, exit to the main menu, then start that mission again, I get the following in the log file:

 Cannot overwrite function Hgn_Interceptor_Custom0_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function Hgn_Interceptor_Custom0_OnEnd 
 Cannot overwrite function Hgn_Mine_Open_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function Hgn_Mine_Close_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_DEFENSEFIELDFRIGATE_DefenseFieldActivate_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_DEFENSEFIELDFRIGATE_DefenseFieldActivate_OnPause 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_DEFENSEFIELDFRIGATE_DefenseFieldDeActivate_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_RESOURCECOLLECTOR_ResourceStart_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_RESOURCECOLLECTOR_ResourceStart_OnPause 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_RESOURCECOLLECTOR_ResourceDo_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_RESOURCECOLLECTOR_ResourceEnd_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_RESOURCECOLLECTOR_RepairStart_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_RESOURCECOLLECTOR_RepairStart_OnPause 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_RESOURCECOLLECTOR_RepairDo_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_RESOURCECOLLECTOR_RepairEnd_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_PROBE_Open_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_PROXIMITYSENSOR_Open_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_PROXIMITYSENSOR_Close_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_ECMPROBE_Open_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_ECMPROBE_Close_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_MOTHERSHIP_DockPathOpen_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_MOTHERSHIP_DockPathOpen_OnPause 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_MOTHERSHIP_DockPathClosed_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_MOTHERSHIP_DockPathClosed_OnPause 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_MOTHERSHIP_NIS00_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_MOTHERSHIP_NIS01_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_MOTHERSHIP_NIS02_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_MOTHERSHIP_NIS02_OnPause 
 Cannot overwrite function HGN_MOTHERSHIP_Normal_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function KPR_ATTACKDROID_Normal_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function KPR_ATTACKDROID_DoingFlightManeuver_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function KPR_ATTACKDROID_Launched_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function KPR_ATTACKDROID_Docked_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function TRP_HEAVYCORVETTE_Launched_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function TRP_HEAVYCORVETTE_Docked_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function TUR_IONARRAYFRIGATE_Open_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function TUR_IONARRAYFRIGATE_Open_OnPause 
 Cannot overwrite function TUR_IONARRAYFRIGATE_Closed_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function TUR_IONARRAYFRIGATE_Closed_OnPause 
 Cannot overwrite function TUR_IONARRAYFRIGATE_Launched_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function TUR_IONARRAYFRIGATE_Launched_OnPause 
 Cannot overwrite function TUR_IONARRAYFRIGATE_Docked_OnSet 
 Cannot overwrite function TUR_IONARRAYFRIGATE_Docked_OnPause

I have no idea why (half those ships aren’t even in my mission), but it is a helpful list of some of the animations in the game!

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