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Newcomers DBPro Corner / What are these limbs you speak of?

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culmor30
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Posted: 28th Jul 2007 02:24
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Yeh, I'm a noob, what are limbs for? I'm assuming they're attachments to objects, but how do they work? What are they for? Is it kind of like a parent>child relationship?

I haven't been able to find any info on it... I was just wondering because I may want to use them and I see them a lot in sample code.

Thanks in advance... if someone responds, that is
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vorconan
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Posted: 28th Jul 2007 02:28
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It's just a way of attaching objects to objects. Like if you wanted to attach a sword to a player, you would use limbs. And they are a parent -child relationship, the limb moves and rotates with it's parent.


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Posted: 28th Jul 2007 02:36
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Hallo culmor30...imagine a man or a soldat...they have a head, a couple of arms and legs and so on...all this object are linked in a hierarchy wher the first limb should be the torso, and the head and all the rest are limbs....knowing that, we can animate a model in an external editor, or just animate the model by the programing code.

see this code.

cheers

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culmor30
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Posted: 28th Jul 2007 02:46
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Thanks guys, that actually helps me a lot. But what is all this offsetting of limbs and such?
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Posted: 28th Jul 2007 03:04 Edited at: 28th Jul 2007 03:05
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Hallo again...LOL, !! you souldn´t worry about limbs now...just take an animated object converted to .x file, and see how it works.

we have to know, that all parts of an object are called limb...that´s all !! and we can animate them separately with code, or in other external editor..

greetings

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culmor30
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Posted: 28th Jul 2007 03:36 Edited at: 28th Jul 2007 03:38
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Aight I guess... ty for your help

EDIT: Oh, also, if you have darkphysics, I'd really appreciate it if anyone could help me with my problem here.
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>>Thanks guys, that actually helps me a lot. But what is all this offsetting of limbs and such?>>

if you have a limb attached to an object, and offset it by (0,5,0), then the center of that limb (in relation to its parent object) will always be 5 units above the parent object

ie, its center is offset 5 units upwards from the parent object position
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Posted: 29th Jul 2007 16:09
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Ah, that's what that's for. Thanks.

Oh and now I am, -=Officially=-, leaving for Florida in 5 minutes. So if you know sparky's please help in my collision thread, but you've got all day cuz I'll be in the car.
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