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Jun 16, 2003, 11:05pm

Hello, everyone;

I converted an AW Avatar to modify in TrueSpace4. I used AccuTrans to do
this. I had to redo the hierarchy of the avatars body parts and rename them
so they work with AW sequences. This I did correctly according to AW's
guidelines on CobDUMP3's help page. I also used the avatar that was
provided in the CobDump3 zip file to use as a reference for the hierarchy
and the axes location of each body part.

My problem is this: When I did the axes for each part of the body somehow I
did not get the location for the torso's axes correct. The torso acts as if
it's is not connected to the pelvis. When the av stands in it's wait
sequence, for example, the torso slides off the hips. Trying to see if I
could solve the axes problem, I then took the orginal avatar and converted
it to cross check the location of the axes on it's torso. I adjusted it and
the av still doesn't move right. I relocated the axes a few times trying to
tweek it with no success.

Help! I'm all confused and now frustrated to boot! LOL

Jun 18, 2003, 11:47am

Darn, I know I've had this problem before, but I can't remember what the
cause of it was. I even tried duplicating it by deliberately "breaking" an
avatar in different ways, but no success. It almost sounds like a hierachy
glueing error, but I can't be sure. I'll keep at it though :)

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Jun 18, 2003, 5:26pm

Sounds very much like you forgot to build the
tags _and_ tree with this button to the right
in the "green man" view.


guri lady schrieb:
> Hello, everyone;
>
> I converted an AW Avatar to modify in TrueSpace4. I used AccuTrans to do
> this. I had to redo the hierarchy of the avatars body parts and rename them
> so they work with AW sequences. This I did correctly according to AW's
> guidelines on CobDUMP3's help page. I also used the avatar that was
> provided in the CobDump3 zip file to use as a reference for the hierarchy
> and the axes location of each body part.
>
> My problem is this: When I did the axes for each part of the body somehow I
> did not get the location for the torso's axes correct. The torso acts as if
> it's is not connected to the pelvis. When the av stands in it's wait
> sequence, for example, the torso slides off the hips. Trying to see if I
> could solve the axes problem, I then took the orginal avatar and converted
> it to cross check the location of the axes on it's torso. I adjusted it and
> the av still doesn't move right. I relocated the axes a few times trying to
> tweek it with no success.
>
> Help! I'm all confused and now frustrated to boot! LOL
>
>
>
>

Jun 26, 2003, 2:08pm

Thank you, stacee and ananas. I really wanted to learn how to solve this
problem through trueSpace but it looks like I will have to learn how to tag
etc in AccuTrans.

Thank you again for responding. :)



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