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I'm helping someone through PM as we speak who's making cutscene animations, they had a simple problem. People shouldn't be intimidated by character animation for this game anymore, I've literally made it so easy that first timers are getting animations in game, wish some of them would post their stuff on here but they're all people who are on like ModDB making stuff for whatever conversion they're doing. If you do it after you'll just have to add your animation to the animation.cfg file so that it loads with whatever player model you load in modview. If you view it before you'll just see the dummy mesh which will be a bunch of small cubes. You can load the animation either before merging with the _humanoid.gla or after. Of course, watch the video in the tutorials section in my sig. Not sure of how many on here are willing but it'd be nice if someone took the time to do their best to break the rig so I can find any problems.

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The roll division and hand controllers seemed to only work as I wanted if constraint compensation was on, which should only be used out of desperation as it can break the rig and cause certain constraints to act oddly.Д«efore I update the file again I'm going to test some options on even further automating the rig so that you can just simply rotate the hand controller and the arm will twist realistically without the need to use the arm's up vector constraints since they should only be used to keep the elbow from moving in unnatural ways. So far I've reworked the face controllers to be a bit more appealing, fixed the roll division controllers and fixed the hand controllers. I tend to either get Google+ messages or PM's on this site about certain things on either tips on it's usage or someone managed to break the rig so I'm working on this again and going to try to get it to the point in which I feel like it should no longer be a BETA in the download's name. OK, I'm bringing this back from the dead. Not sure why you'd want to look at the base animations, they will not have a character enveloped to them so they'll mainly be a bunch of nulls moving around but once you learn some things you can use them as reference and retarget the animations to the rig, I did that for the staff run in the tutorial video to have a starting point.Д«est advice I can give without typing up the longest post on jkhub would be to start here, You can either do File>Import>dotXSI or just simply drag and drop them into the viewport.

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The Raven models are in dotXSI 3.5 format which is an ASCII format based on Softimage scenes, the code is pretty much open which is how is able to code it for 3ds Max. You can do this by going on the top menu View>Layouts>Default.

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The best advice I can give though is to set it to the default Softimage layout, Mod View has it's own layout and it sucks IMO, they made it to make it easier for first timers but it's easier to follow the vast amount of Softimage tutorials in the standard layout since there aren't many Mod Tool specific tutorials mainly since it really isn't any different than the full version. S+ mouse buttons will navigate the view (look at the bottom right of the program window, you'll notice tips on lmb, mmb and rmb and what they do when a tool is active)

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