Need exporting animation data, and playing the loop code...

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YAURAH

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Posted: 4th Mar 2014 19:53 Edited at: 4th Mar 2014 19:55

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To the Dark Basic Pro Community:

I haven't been programming for a while and I used to know how to play a loop of animation stored in a direct.x file that was imported into Dark Basic Pro from 3DStudio Max. The animation plays fine in max, but it's either the way I exported it (based on options of the exporter (Axe)(KW)or(Pandasoft), Or its a mistake in my coding...Any way the model and code are in the attachment. Ive just began this project, and I can't continue until I get the walk cycle to play when the user presses "w" key. If all else fails, I with try to physically animate the robot via limb rotations (which I know looks better and is more ideal for this project, but I am not as good at that style of programming).

ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED...

BTW:Feel free to use the model any way you want(I am better at creating 3d models than I am with coding...)

C.S.J
UNITUS - Holy Scientific
2014

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Rem Project: Dark Basic Pro Project
Rem Created: Sunday, February 23, 2014
Rem ***** Main Source File *****

autocam off
sync on
sync rate 60
global sw
global sh
sw=screen width()
sh=screen height()
hide mouse

ObjectNumber=1
load object "NeuMecha.x",ObjectNumber
scale object ObjectNumber,2,2,2
position object ObjectNumber,0,0,10



do

`need help with correct animation code to play frames 1-50 for walk cycle...
if keystate(17)=1 then loop object ObjectNumber,0,50
if keystate(31)=1 then loop object ObjectNumber,0,50


    sync
LOOP

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chafari

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Posted: 4th Mar 2014 21:16

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Hi there. Long time that I don't use 3DMax, but I remember this problem with pandasoft. It export an animation with lots of keyframes for each keyframe,when we think that our object have 50 frames, pandasoft export more than 5000 keyframes,but we can help this just speeding up the animation.

Here's your revised code.

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Rem Project: Dark Basic Pro Project
Rem Created: Sunday, February 23, 2014
Rem ***** Main Source File *****

autocam off
sync on
sync rate 60
global sw
global sh
sw=screen width()
sh=screen height()
hide mouse

ObjectNumber=1
load object "NeuMecha.x",ObjectNumber
scale object ObjectNumber,2,2,2
position object ObjectNumber,0,0,10
set object speed objectnumber,3000
position camera -10,15,-10
point camera 0,0,0

do
set cursor 0,0
print total object frames(1)
`need help with correct animation code to play frames 1-50 for walk cycle...
if keystate(17)=1 then loop object ObjectNumber,0,7840
if keystate(31)=1 then loop object ObjectNumber,0,7840


    sync
LOOP

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YAURAH

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Posted: 4th Mar 2014 23:08

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Wow, I had no idea that was the problem, But now it all makes sense. I am very grateful for your help Chafari. Ive been fiddling with the code for like 3 days now, I probably would have never figured it out on my own, now I can alter the robot objects frame count before exporting it to make it easier and more organized. Plus I can add limb movements to provide for more interactions...

Your help was truly a blessing...Thanks again Chafari!

BTW: I am more of a 3d model designer, so let me know if you ever need any particular models...

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