Anyone know of a simple max rig with a pre made walk and run animation?

crazyfingers

Been prototyping a platformer in Unity and wanted to start messing with integrating animations. I don't need a character, just a rig with an existing run and walk animation, the simpler the better. They don't have to be good or even decent. I'm just looking for a starting point without having to be side tracked with animations as i'm knee deep in programming and creating static assets at this point.

Any help is appreciated!

Funny how hard it is to find such a basic, universal, and needed asset on the internet...

SpeCter

Can´t you just use a premade CAT Rig? As far as i remember it has a walk and run preset.

.morph3us

Pre 2013 (or 2012?) you would need to go with the biped, its located in your create panel, under "Systems".

Mark Dygert

Biped has footsteps, CAT has CAT motion layers.

.morph3us

Biped can load motion capture data, which you can download free on the net.
also, it has animation layers, too....

Mark Dygert

Autodesk also shipped some sample motion captures files with 2011 I think, it might have been available through subscription but is probably floating around somewhere.

Biped also has the motion mixer which is great at blending different animations and even different animations on different parts.

SpeCter

xXm0RpH3usXx wrote: »

Pre 2013 (or 2012?) you would need to go with the biped, its located in your create panel, under "Systems".

CAT is included in 2012 but was available for 2011 if you had a subscription.

hyrumark

Here you go, it has a walk/run animation. For Max 2011 or later: http://mjblosser.com/biped-walkrun.zip

crazyfingers

Thanks for the replies, guys.

Hyrumark, thanks man this will definitely work as a start. Little bummed the animations are baked every frame but hey, beggars can't be choosers! Stoked to start getting this guy in game and start figuring out an animation and a custom armor pipeline! Thanks a ton everyone!

hyrumark

Even though there are keys every frame, if you need to make adjustments just keyframe them on a new layer. It's in the biped motion panel. You can even retarget the feet to follow the ground plane if you need to move the root, which is very cool. Layers are a great non-desctructive way to try out different variations.

Eric Chadwick

For future use, we have some links to free rigs and mocap
http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryAnimation#Free_Rigs

sprunghunt

hyrumark wrote: »

Even though there are keys every frame, if you need to make adjustments just keyframe them on a new layer. It's in the biped motion panel. You can even retarget the feet to follow the ground plane if you need to move the root, which is very cool. Layers are a great non-desctructive way to try out different variations.

If it has keys every frame you can use the mocap import in biped which has a key reduction feature. Raw mocap always has keys on every frame.