Chain letter age

[katreeny]

My female avvie sinks into the floor in the crawlspace leading to the tunnel. Nothing vanishes, I'm just wading through rock

[Jojon]

Thanks for the feedback, katreeny.

I'm afraid I haven't looked into it yet, but I will - promise. :)

[boblishman]

(Oh, btw, if Boblishman is reading this: I believe I stumbled across what we were lacking, in order to make sure cameras ALWAYS CUTS to position, unless he's got that sorted already: we need to have flags (cutpos and cutpoa) set under the "transitions" header, as well, not just under the camera brain. There are separate plasma classes for camera brains and camera modifiers and without the flags under transitions, the cut-thingummies only flags true in the former.)

thanks Jojon ... ... great find!

(I was using a workaround - setting the camera as animated, but with no actual movement and only one frame of animation )

I have ammended the wiki page on Camera Controls accordingly.

[ddb174]

Just females, I think. I just saw someone else fall through, but did not fall through myself.

[Jojon]

Indeed; crawling through, during a brief gender-bender (thanks, offline KI), it appears the female Myst_fireplace animations expect something that is 1-2 inches lower, than the male ones do.
Going to Myst, it looks like, there, the female anims fit the height of the fireplace ledge just fine, whereas the male ones play through and then does an ugly warp to correct the position - never took note of that before.

I'm going to have to think for a while, about how to go about fixing this... Just keeping the height and moving the crawl-in searchpoint up a bit should do it, but that will leave the males warping up, coming in a bit too high and then drop to the floor, while the females (just like now) will do the same crawling out... I think I may actually do this, rather than something more complicated, even though the extra effort may produce something that looks better...

[Chacal]

Yeah, it is harder for men to come out of the closet, and it always feels a little awkward afterwards.

Indeed; crawling through, during a brief gender-bender (thanks, offline KI), it appears the female Myst_fireplace animations expect something that is 1-2 inches lower, than the male ones do.
Going to Myst, it looks like, there, the female anims fit the height of the fireplace ledge just fine, whereas the male ones play through and then does an ugly warp to correct the position - never took note of that before.

[Jojon]

I think I may be a tad too greedy...

Corvus submitted Rell-Too version 0.17, with some really neat additions, something like over a quarter of a year ago and I've been keeping it to myself for all this time, like some old miser. Perhaps I should consider sharing...

Let's just call it... hmm.. summer leave, shall we? :P


I don't know where Corvus does her gardening usually, but the fertiliser she used on the flowers she planted around Justin's pond sure seems mighty efficient!


@Chakal: I say. I never realised before, how big these jeans makes my butt look.

[Jojon]

Oh! I forgot!

I have done some shuffling of the layers in the latest .blend file. Please refer to the picture below, to see which stuff goes into which layer.
If you find this organisation scheme more troublesome than helpful, please tell.

I'm also attaching a Blender script, which I cobbled together, by cutting and pasting between a couple of other scripts from the vanilla Blender installation - I am obviously not a programmer; feel free to tidy it up and improve it, anyone who feels like. :)
(The script is useful if you can't get your animations in-game to match what you see in Blender -- read it for more info (..or ask).)

[ddb174]

It's on UAM now, so check it out folks!

[Jojon]

Much obliged, as always, Dustin! :)