basic principle of animation?

warui · Post by **warui** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:13 am

You can do it in any program that allows to create animation

Electron · Post by **Electron** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:22 pm

Or are you talking about multiple animated models in one file, since you mentioned cutscene? In that case I'd find a way to make it into an AVI and use rt's avi player for irrlicht

Evil Mr Sock · Post by **Evil Mr Sock** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:45 pm

Here's a not-quite-what-you're-asking-for answer - yes.

This is the bastardly, non-efficient way to do it, but it'll do it

You could load your models into 3DSMax, make them dance around and such, and export the movie as an AVI

Then display the AVI over the game window

Check out the How To forum for how to play AVI files

As far as in-game scenes, I think if you set a flag for scene_starting that shut off user input until the end of the scene, and then gave movement commands directly to the nodes in a script fashion, such as

"start scene - remove control - :: Player1 - run to (30,100,20), stop, jump, jump, jump, display dialogue "They're after me!" :: - return control to user - end scene"

That should work - I'm pretty new to Irrlicht, so I haven't gotten to the point of implementing something like that yet, but the base concept has worked for me in previous scenarios.