massimilianogoi on 17/2/2009 at 00:25

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I'm near to complete my first bot. I am waiting for the translating of the Thief 2 animations from Shadowspawn.

In the meanwhile, I used some dummy animations to test the AI, and used the Gamall's spell as weapon.

When all (sounds, proper weapons and speeches) will be completed, I will release this AI.

Here's some funny screenshot:

http://i41.tinypic.com/9jlvdv.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/k4igc9.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2hydxky.jpg

massimilianogoi on 17/2/2009 at 04:06

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I've still to enhance it.

When it will be enough ready, then I will post a video on my channel.

massimilianogoi on 19/3/2009 at 05:19

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This is really weird:

I've done by the scratch the whole skeleton of the combot, but when I exported in PSK, the AI keeped a single texture!!

After a whole day of failing attempts, I've tried, in desperation, with a dummy characters, formed by two parallelepipeds:

http://i43.tinypic.com/2i74upd.jpg

I HATE when the machine wins on me :mad:

Some ideas?

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UPDATE:

Well, it seems the objects took the material from the one linked to the bone father (or mother??). I am wondering why...

massimilianogoi on 13/6/2009 at 22:30

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Problem solved! :)

In the characters we have to join ALL the parts in one sole mesh.

Here is the correctly rigged bot, for those who would love to play with it, and create personalized animations:

(http://rapidshare.com/files/244236033/combot_scheletro.max.html) http://rapidshare.com/files/244236033/combot_scheletro.max.html

Remember to install the Mechanists Robots Matlib from (http://www.redfox-media.com/jayb-productions/SMeshes/index.php) The SMesh Brothers before in your Thief editor :thumb:

I will not put the bot in the SMesh Brothers unless I will have completed my personal animations. Just there I will upload PSK and PSA files.

Thanks to the boys at the (http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=175783&page=2) 3dbuzz.com forum, especially SolaceEternal, his help was unvaluable.

massimilianogoi on 14/6/2009 at 15:14

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No, no animations. I just told that this model are distributer for playing it with the animations, that is you could create any animations you want.

As I've said, my animations will come out with the entire model, and in PSA format.

This file instead is more a sort of "gymnasium" for those who want to animate a character.

Here you will find a good tutorial (that is the one I learned too): (http://fordy.planetunreal.gamespy.com/gradientssmeshtutorials/16.html) http://fordy.planetunreal.gamespy.com/gradientssmeshtutorials/16.html (jump the first part [rigging the bones] and step right into the ActorX section, and start from there).