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Animating bells.
A quick question if I may, Im working with cry engine 3 and I was wondering what the best way to create an animation for tiny bells hanging from a roof would be? My goal is to make it seems as though the wind is blowing the bells, Would I have to create an animation in 3dsmax and then export it as such, or is there a… -
Re: Animating bells.
Thanks for the reply, im planning on leaving the bell animation until last, so that it leaves me enough time to investigate the methods laid out in this thread. Im thinking a basic loop animation will suffice for now but the rag doll idea is very tempting -
Re: Animating bells.
Hey, well you have many ways to do this.. one would be to manually animate your bell, but it would be generic (except you create some animations with variations). I'm close to create my first animated objects, therefore I can't say exactly if this would be easy, as you need to save this as another file (cga instead of… -
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vegetation wind deform is not rigid, so it might look weird on a metal bell. the way most games would do this is to just have a generic loop animation of the bell swinging, and then run that on all your bells with various delays so theyre not all synchronized. if you wanna go super hardcore you could rig the bell up as a… -
Re: Animating bells.
Thanks for your reply, i will look into the methods you suggested tomorrow morning. I like the idea of allows the wind to move the object the same way it moves grass etc, will look into it. Yeah, im much more familiar with UDK myself, but wanted to learn some cryengine too.
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