Creature Orientation Fix

@eloth: I decided to make a new thread for this because that one was getting cluttered. Ok so first of all lets make sure that I understand you correctly. The problem is that when the winged twilight flies (fastforward anim is played) then it slides sideways instead of moving forward or it moves both sideways and forward (I am confused about this from the corpus thread ... which one is it?) Anyways next we need to figure out whether the skeleton or the animation is causing the problem. My guess is that the problem is with the animation so I will deal with that first. Here I have uploaded two animations (FastForward only) in which I have applied the hack I had in mind. First try this one and tell me what you see. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?khh3lked7lc56s9 If the twilight flies backwards instead of forwards then use this one: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j7dbq701afyyx0v Try them and tell me if there is any difference at all. {note that this is only the FastForward (fly\run forward animation) }

Last edited by Hashmi1 on 31 Aug 2010 - 09:20.

the first one worked, thanks

the first one worked, thanks :) can you tell me what you did? or add it in the tutorial? one more problem, the head and the tailtip isnt animated: [External image]

I dont currently have any

I don't currently have any fix or ideas for the parts that do not animate. As I said in the end of my tutorial .. if they do not animate then they either use morphs or vertex translations and I don't know how to convert them. Anyways you can apply this method to the corpus creatures. (maybe we can use the winged twilight from the Sovvm project?!) Here is how I did it. 1) Open the culprit animation (WalkForward \ WalkFastForward) in nifscope. 2) In the block list expand the first entry named "NiTransformInterpolator" This entry has data for the first\root bone Bip01 which is used for movement. [External image] In it you should find an entry called "NiTransformData". Click on it and then view the Block Details in the lower panel. 3) You should see an entry named "Translations" , expand it and you should see several "Keys". [External image] 4) Now these keys have Translation (movement data) for the three axis (X,Y and Z). What you want to do is to - copy the values from the Y-axis to the X-axis - change the Y-axis values to 0 - change the values of the new X-axis values to negative (-) [External image] Do this with all the values and then save the file. It is important to understand what we are doing here. The creature walked sideways (in this instance the Y-axis) instead of forward (in this instance the X-axis) so we copied all the translations from the Y-axis to X-axis. When we do this however the creature moves backwards instead of forwards ... so we changed the sign of the X-axis translations so that it moves forward. Just to check your animation, open skeleton.nif Spells->Animation->attack kf And select the modified animation file. [External image] Click play and you should see the skeleton move forward (previously it moved sideways) If it moves backwards instead of forwards then you want to change the sign of the X-axis translations to the opposite sign.

I also noticed that your

I also noticed that your models have several visible holes, especially the ascended sleeper. I would recommend turning off autosmooth mesh, weld vertices, and remove illegal faces when you import the model from morrowind.

the winged twilight is

the winged twilight is fixable i think, the animation works in nifskope, but doesnt in the cs and ingame, but i noticed that the bones controlling the tail stinger and head, is named something else than the rest of the bones (eg. head instead of bip01 head), i hope thats the cause. could also be that those two bones are linked differently than the rest.

Creature Orientation Fix

the first one worked, thanks

I dont currently have any

I also noticed that your

the winged twilight is

yay! i managed to fix the

Nice How did you add the

i added it with within max 8

Alright ... this is great.

thats correct here is a

here is the download