Custom weapon animations

SGJackson · 04-30-2012, 05:21 PM

So I made some weapons to put in my HL2 mod and they work fine, but I've got a problem with the animations..
For XSI to complile, everything must be one mesh, so I can't make different keyframes for two specific parts of my weapon (say the Mag and the Body for the reload animation)
I've been told I needed to use bones, but I don't know exactly how they work.. Could anyone explain how to make these bones and how to attach them to different parts of the weapon?

aln447 · 05-06-2012, 05:45 AM

Look up some youtube tutorials for animation basics with bones in XSI. These are the basics, you need to do some study to proceed.

04-30-2012, 05:21 PM	#1
SGJackson Join Date: Jan 2011 Reputation: 2 Posts: 73	Custom weapon animations So I made some weapons to put in my HL2 mod and they work fine, but I've got a problem with the animations.. For XSI to complile, everything must be one mesh, so I can't make different keyframes for two specific parts of my weapon (say the Mag and the Body for the reload animation) I've been told I needed to use bones, but I don't know exactly how they work.. Could anyone explain how to make these bones and how to attach them to different parts of the weapon?

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05-06-2012, 05:45 AM	#2
aln447 Join Date: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0 Posts: 44	Look up some youtube tutorials for animation basics with bones in XSI. These are the basics, you need to do some study to proceed.