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Title: hiding and revealing parts when needed?
Post by: phayze on April 20, 2010, 09:36:05 AM
Maybe my search-fu is weak, but I wasn't able to find a suitable to answer to this question.  Then again, maybe it's just harder than I think it is and everyone else knows better than to ask . . .

Anyway, I'm wanting to add a weapon to a mesh, in this case the lightsaber from male_basic_lightsaber.  That part was relatively easy, with a little playing around and some patience, but here's the part I haven't figured out yet: I want the saber to be invisible until a particular animation is called, for the character to hit something with it, and then for it vanish again.

I've seen this done with other meshes, like the one for GL that conjures a power battery for some attacks, but since this is my first attempt at skoping a mesh I'm not even sure how to figure out from looking at that how it's done.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! :D
Title: Re: hiding and revealing parts when needed?
Post by: John Jr. on April 20, 2010, 09:57:11 PM
Check this thread, hope it helps.
http://freedomreborn.net/forums/index.php?topic=52408.0
Title: Re: hiding and revealing parts when needed?
Post by: phayze on April 21, 2010, 03:26:24 AM
Thanks, John.  I read through that one before I posted and there was some really good info in there, but I'm not sure I can make it apply because I don't know of a mesh that does that trick with sword animations.  If I hide/shrink the lightsaber, then I don't know how to make it unhide/expand for the proper animation.

Maybe I should post in the request board to see if anyone knows of a vanishing sword mesh . . .
Title: Re: hiding and revealing parts when needed?
Post by: Amazo Version 2.2 on April 21, 2010, 04:58:13 PM
Does JIK's Deadpool mesh have the vanishing sword? I'm not on my pc, so I can't check for sure.
Title: Re: hiding and revealing parts when needed?
Post by: Kenn on April 21, 2010, 07:13:32 PM
I know when my parts are revealed I usually hide, otherwise, I get arrested.
Title: Re: hiding and revealing parts when needed?
Post by: Cyber Burn on April 22, 2010, 12:53:23 AM
EEEWWW!!! Not a picture I needed in my head.    :banghead:
Title: Re: hiding and revealing parts when needed?
Post by: phayze on April 22, 2010, 05:04:05 AM
Quote from: Kenn on April 21, 2010, 07:13:32 PM
I know when my parts are revealed I usually hide, otherwise, I get arrested.

O_o!? 

Good night everybodyyyyy! [/Yakko_Warner]