Engine Animations

[strykersm]

Hello modders! Can you teach me your method for animating the mesh of your jet engines to gimbal and open/close? IF you can use pictures aswelll

Edited January 4, 2016 by strykersm

[strykersm]

Someone move this, I misplaced it --' (again)

[Guest]

20 hours ago, strykersm said:

Someone move this, I misplaced it --' (again)

Go into the "need your own thread moved, locked, or deleted?" thread of Kerbal Network.  Ask them to move it to modeling and texturing along with the link.

[blowfish]

You mean the way the Panther gimbals and the nozzle flaps move?  Look into skeletal animations, that's what it's based on.  You can probably find tutorials on those for Unity and whatever modeling program you use (if I tried to explain them I would do it wrong).  When you have some of the basics of bones and vertex groups down, I can probably explain a bit of how KSP interacts with those things.

[Hary R]

He figured it out already and even made a tuto on his own.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/129355-strykers-modding-tutorial-videos/

Edited January 14, 2016 by Hary R

[strykersm]

6 hours ago, Hary R said:

He figured it out already and even made a tuto on his own.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/129355-strykers-modding-tutorial-videos/

Althought there is a loophole in all that. It is the WHIPLASH animation and i found out by importing the .mu files with the .mu importer for blender that Porkjet's armature setup has WAY less bones. (7 as far as I counted. 1 Main bone, 2 nozzle interior bones, 2 nozzle exterior bones and 2 for gimbaling (1 is the base and 1 is the gimbal itself). I need the guy who made the .mu importer to import the armatures because in it's current state it only releases solid axes that don't animate anything.