Weapon and Arm Separation in UDK

acealmighty13

I tried posting in UDK's forums but didn't get a response and I'm looking here for an answer of sorts. I didn't put the models together, animate them, rig them at all. Since I have an account already with Polycount, I offered to post about an issue with a rigged pistol and hands its supposed to be attached to when in UDK. For some reason, they are separated but still perform the animations that were created. In 3ds Max, they are fine. I uploaded it myself, and everything is where it's supposed to be.






I will do my best to answer any questions that I know the answers to if you need more information. Otherwise, I will ask my guys that have yet to figure it out. It appears to be simple but I don't have a clue at the moment what's causing this.

r4ptur3

Well the good part is you got in in UDK Most of the time this is the hard part.

I am assuming you have an Aminset since there is an animation on the skelmesh. Open the Animset and click on the the AnimSet tab in the bottom left corner of the screen (Right next to the Mesh and AnimSequence tabs). Uncheck "Anim Rotation Only". UDK will not read translation information on animations by default. Did this help?

acealmighty13

Surprise, surprise. That did the trick. Thank you for the help. It's almost always something as simple as that.

r4ptur3

no problemo

acealmighty13

Something new has popped up after Anim Rotation Only. This is the description I get from the guy working on animations.....It's a bit hard to describe it. When the character jumps it seems like the arm mesh is not properly connected. I'm thinking it has something to do with the unchecking the Anim Rotation Only box. When this is unchecked it fixes the problem with the arms and gun from being all over the place, but a warning is displayed in the animSet preview window. The warning is: "Warning: WILL BE BROKEN IN GAME!!! animation needs to be recompressed; displaying RAW animation data only......

I've attached a link to a video he gave me. I don't understand what's going on in it but it appears "off" in some way.

http://s43.photobucket.com/user/AceAlmighty82/media/Arms-1.mp4.html

alfalfasprossen

there is a menu-entry "animation compression" you can recompress the animations there somewhere, then don't forget to save your package

r4ptur3

^ one up alfalfasprossen