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I found a free samus model on turbosquid (I only get their free stuff the other stuff is a complete rip-off) and the texture is already set to the .X file. In other words, I don't need to add a texture. If I put this (with all the scripts and stuff: fpe, fpi, etc.), would it be able to move around or would I have to add bones with another program? Also, is there a way to make it shoot out of its cannon arm? Please help.

-Trace

EDIT: lol I misspelled Samus as "Smaus"

If the model is not already rigged or animated, then you'll need to do this yourself. I do not know about FPSC, ie, whether you can set up a basic skeleton and then use a default animation set or whether you have to animate the whole thing yourself. But at the very least, you will definitely need to add bones and rig it yourself.

There are a few really cool looking Samus' on TurboSquid, however the lowest poly count I could find on any of them is around 17K polies - much too high for a game environment. Realistically, you should be around 2500 polies or so for characters for most games. Some will argue for more than that, but 17,000 is way too many.

In order to use it in a game, you would have to rig it (I believe CharacterFX is now free - you can search for it on these forums) and then animate the joints that you have made/assigned.


Sure, this could easily be done. You would simply assign some of the vertices of the cannon to a joint there and use that to obtain the limb angle and location for placement of a projectile. You could assign another joint to the tip of the cannon to place the flash.

Hope this helps.

thanks