Help with Animation

[NattyC]

HEY guy, so I really just need to know where the animation code and maybe some tips on how to set up an animation. BTW for now since its my first attempt I an just going to use the default animation I just want to apply it to my model which is why I need the location. THANK!!!

[MelOzone]

shameless self-insertion

More chests from Mel

With the help of Stonehearth community (you are awesome people!), I present Boxes [image] …told ya I suck at naming. Anyway, with help from Drotten and Hyrule_Symbol I’ve created a small mod (GitHub) that holds a simple animation and a script (thanks Drotten!) to make it work. Mechanics is quite simple actually. Every time a Hearthling gets close to the chest, the chest opens. When no one is around, the chest closes. Gone are the days when your Hearthlings …

This is a rather trivial example: a chest is a model of two pieces (base and lid), and one of them (base) is not moving. So you have only one element (lid) moving in only one direction (rotating).

Need help with modelling!

[image] This Hearthling is very happy. Really. Trust me, I’m an Psychologist Engineer. How I made it. Solid model in Magica. Save it as qb. Save model parts for animation into obj from Magica (this is important!) Load qb from Magica into VoxelShop. Separate into layers (matrices). Save it again. Important: do NOT export from VoxelShop for animation. Load obj files into Blender. Set origins. Export skeleton. Note that every model part you’ve just loaded is rotated 90 degrees around X axis. R…

A thing I didn’t mentioned here is that you need import/export plugin for Blender. Literally falling asleep now, so try searching Discourse for it.
Also, voxelpirate has a mega useful video tutorial on youtube about animating SH models.

PS. Assuming you don’t have any pro-tools like Maya and want to try with free ones (Magica, Blender, VoxelShop).

[NattyC]

I can model in maya and yes I have it

[NattyC]

I use Maya, Cubik Studio, and Paint.NET to make most of my stuff

[Relyss]

@NattyC

BTW for now since its my first attempt I an just going to use the default animation

Which existing model are you imitating? The skeletons and animations are in stonehearth/data/rigs but if you’re copying an existing entity the path should be in its json file.

[NattyC]

I need the walk animation for the Hearthlings

[Relyss]

In the json file of your entity, you’d add the reference to the skeleton and animations of the hearthlings like this:

"render_info" : {
         "animation_table" : "stonehearth:skeletons:humanoid:male"
},

Depending on the AI packs of your entity, it will automatically get the other animations. The walk animation itself is in stonehearth\data\rigs\entities\humans\animations\male\walk.json

[NattyC]

oh ok can I have the can I have the Skeleton animation directory please.

[Relyss]

If you haven’t found it yet it’s stonehearth\data\rigs\entities\humans\skeletons
The “stonehearth:skeletons:humanoid:male” alias that I mentioned above, points to a specific file inside that directory (look at the manifest.json).

[NattyC]

k thanks my guy . easfwd