how to add animations to a new weapon???

[Dennis|8749236]

when i creat a new weapon with new name, the animation will not working anymore... how to give the new weapon animations?

[Crimson_Raptor]

Well the best way, if you don't have your own custom animation made in Gmax, is to reuse an animation from an existing ingame weapon.

Here's what you're going to what to do (you didn't mention the weapon, so I'm just going to use the thompson as an example)

Say you weapon name is "bigassgun," and it is an AUTOMATIC weapon, right? The automatic is important, because if you have a singleshot weapon like the sniper rifles, then that is different.

So you use WinRFA 2.05 to unpack the original '42 "animations.rfa." Within that folder(wherever you unpack it too) there is a test document called "multiShotWeapons.inc" (inc format should open in notepad, if it doesn't then make sure it does by saying "always use this program") and open it up.

You will see a listing of all the weapons ingame and the basic formula is as follows:

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yourcustomweapon v_arg1 animationtocopyanduse 1.0 animationtocopyanduse 1.0

So you would put a line in there that says:

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AnimationStateMachine.copyState2 bigassgun v_arg1 thompson 1.0 thompson 1.0

I've forgotten why you have have to put the two weapon 1.0's in there, but I think it has something to do with the to copy the 3rd person animation. So now that you'd done that, and hopefully you have properly fixed your bigassgun's "Objects.con" and had something to the effect of:

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ObjectTemplate.createSkeleton animations/thompson.ske
ObjectTemplate.useSkeletonPartAsMain Base

ObjectTemplate.create AnimatedBundle bigassgunComplex
ObjectTemplate.createSkeleton animations/thompson.ske

So now that you've done that, your gun will work ingame without crashing due to an animation error. However, your weapon, because it's copying an existing animation.ske, it will animate rather fast, especially when reloading. It'll look like you are Flash Gordon, lol. So, we'll need to fix that. Meaning, it gets a little more complicated, but don't be scared.

Now you need to open up the text file within the animations folder called "1pAnimationsTweaking.con." Again, it is a .con format, and that is simply a fancy way to say .txt, so you needed to open it up with notepad as the default program always. I assume you know how to do this, but I'm just imprinting it again for anyone else that wasn't listening or wants to mod and will read this, lol. So you open it up and... well, crap! I forgot that '42 has all the weapons jumbled together except for the DP and the Type 99 machine guns. Basically you'll see something like this:

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rem ---- Thompson
AnimationStateMachine.set1pAnimationSpeed Ub_StandThompson 0.1
AnimationStateMachine.set1pAnimationSpeed Ub_TurnThompson 0.1
AnimationStateMachine.set1pAnimationSpeed Ub_StandAimThompson 0.1

And it goes on like that for about 40 lines of code. So you need to copy each one of those animation speeds so that the game recognizes that the "bigassgun" needs to play those animations at that speed for the player ingame. So change them to...you guessed it:

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rem ---- bigassgun
AnimationStateMachine.set1pAnimationSpeed Ub_Standbigassgun 0.1
AnimationStateMachine.set1pAnimationSpeed Ub_Turnbigassgun 0.1
AnimationStateMachine.set1pAnimationSpeed Ub_StandAimbigassgun 0.1

And boom your animation, that copies itself from the thompson.ske, will work normally ingame. The last thing you need to do is make sure the 3rd person animations are just as slowed down. They are located in the "3pAnimationsTweaking.con" document.

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rem ---- thompson
AnimationStateMachine.set3pAnimationSpeed Ub_StandThompson 0.60
AnimationStateMachine.set3pAnimationSpeed Ub_TurnThompson 1.60
AnimationStateMachine.set3pAnimationSpeed Ub_StandAimThompson 0.80

And you change everything that says "thompson" to "bigassgun" and you're basically done.

One thing to note is that you can save a tremendous amount of work if you already have a properly scaled custom weapon, to take those .rs and .sm files and rename like thompson.rs and thompson.sm or whatever the weapon whose animations you want to use and put that in your mod's folder so that you can see what it'll look like ingame. That way if you don't like the way it looks or handles 1st person wise, then you've saved yourself all the trouble up above. I wish I had figured that out when I started out modding, but I tend to do things that hard way and the long way around, but it teaches me to understand how everything works down the road. But for newer blood, it helps to use the "easier way, lol! I hope this helps you out. Let me know if you have any problem.

[Dennis|8749236]

now i just make 3p animation working properly and 1p is not working

[Dennis|8749236]

sorry... mine is single shot..

[Crimson_Raptor]

Oh well in that case, instead of editing the multiShotWeapons.inc you just edit the singleShotWeapons.inc to the following formila, using the no4 rifle to replace the thompson gun:

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AnimationStateMachine.copyState bigassgun v_arg1 no4 1.0 no4 1.0
AnimationStateMachine.copyState2 bigassgun v_arg1 no4 1.0 no4 1.0

It is important to have both copystate and copystate2 in that file. Not sure why, but it may crash.

[Dennis|8749236]

Problem solved..
the problem is.... i wrote: AnimationStateMachine.copyState M1CGarand v_arg1 M1Garand 1.0 M1CGarand 1.0

[Dennis|8749236]

copystate is 1st person animation
copystate2 is 2nd person animation
：D

[Crimson_Raptor]

That makes, since, lol. I haven't messed with the animations in a while. Glad I could help.