Has anybody ever made some special idle keyframes for Batman? For cutscenes, in other words. Some examples might be Bats crouching 'like a gargoyle' on a roof top, or standing with his arms folded, cape draped around him? These would just be for mods, or even for "people like me, who like to look at meshes in CTool" (I'm looking at you UFB, :P )
http://www.dccomics.com/media/covers/7790_400x600.jpg (http://www.dccomics.com/media/covers/7790_400x600.jpg)
http://www.cameron-stewart.com/blog/batman.jpg (http://www.cameron-stewart.com/blog/batman.jpg)
The Adam West Batman has crouching animations. The bit with the cape would have to be done differently, since the capes in the game are basically solid objects that don't drape (unless somebody has worked that out). Texas Jack could do it by a different figure substituting for the "idle" Batman.
Me, I'm still trying to find KFs for Ink's final Batman mesh. I have a whole bunch of Batmans that need them.
While the cape isn't draped over him, bearded's Goth mesh does have very sort of ominous idle pose...
i did make new bones for goth, all along the edges of the cape. it was very hard to animate, and i wasn't entirely pleased with the results.
I've tried to download that Goth (and a few other) mesh form Freedom Asylum an all I get is 30kb of nothing. The illustration looks neat...
I don't recall any male cape compatible batman meshes except for one REAAAAAALLLLLY early one that was basically a few vertices that were pulled out to make the fins and ears. Other than that there are a lot of good batman skins for the male_alpha mesh (provided you have the fixed version).
it's also not hard at all to skope a batman body, fins and ears onto a male_cape mesh... so that could be a possibility if someone where to animate a male_cape set.
BiL i really like what you did with the nabu and cloak meshes too, i can only imagine how much of a pain it is to animate it all though
Quote from: daglob on June 15, 2007, 05:13:25 AM
Me, I'm still trying to find KFs for Ink's final Batman mesh. I have a whole bunch of Batmans that need them.
i have all of the Batman kf's and the batman_fighter_kfs... if you want i can send them to ya...
I found Grenadier's Batman_Gren mesh while going through Yahoo groups... Excellent mesh, tight animations and it has a bonus Idle pose with Batman's arms folded. I like it! It might be male_cape compatible.
It also has some amazing melee animations.