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Benjames8
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Posted: 15th Apr 2010 07:09 Edited at: 15th Apr 2010 07:31
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In my game enemy's are made throughout it. Every time I make an enemy I have to load and append it's animation. Which causes the game to lag a sec. My question is "Can you load a 3d file in the beggining of the program then later assign it to one or even multiple objects?"

If not is there some other way to get rid of that lag? Could do something with loading a mesh then making an the object's from it?
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Kira Vakaan
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Posted: 15th Apr 2010 10:45
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Check out the instance object command.
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Posted: 15th Apr 2010 10:48
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Or clone object...

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Hawkblood
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Posted: 15th Apr 2010 15:36
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instance object won't work well with animated objects as an instanced object will only have one animation set and therefore ALL the instaces will be in animation sync. Use clone object.

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Kira Vakaan
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 01:57
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I didn't think about that. Good point.
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Sepnon
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 02:26
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btw.. load mesh will load animations too?
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Quote: "load mesh will load animations too?"

I don't think so... there aren't any DBP commands to edit the current frame of a mesh anyway.

Just wrote this quick test program and no it doesn't load all frames:


I get "Object has 0 frames" as a result.

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chafari
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 13:03
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HI there.

@Benjames8
If you want to load an object and then appendt animation of three more objects, you will have to load them all at start, and won´t be any lag...perhaps fps will go down slightly.If not, you will have to make your object with the four animation in the same model.

It is easy to add keyframes to the object, just copy and paste at the end of keyframes bar

cheers.

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Sepnon
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@baxslash

hmm.. it means meshs cannot hold animations
I tryed loading it as a object, converting it to mesh and then to object again, 0 frames, but i found something



execute it, the third mesh is different than the first one
the first is flat shaded, while the last is gourad/smooth
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Kira Vakaan
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 23:07
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A mesh is very simply a mesh. It's only geometry. You can use the make memblock from mesh command and you'll see everything that's inside one.
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