seventyfour on 1/8/2011 at 18:16

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Playing around with the .MI -> .BVH conversion from Telliamed's (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136431) Blender Toolkit, which essentially makes it possible to edit and create motions for thief with external applications, I started experimenting to see if it was possible to use for creating completely new motions.

The result? I managed to put together a fully working dog rig - which earlier has seemed to be considered nearly a impossibility. Note that the animation is still pretty raw, and the mesh is nothing but a temporary test model.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqZ6LczctFQ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqZ6LczctFQ
(The limping look is because the first and last frames of the animation didn't loop seamlessly when I uploaded, but that's fixed now)

The dog also uses the standard joint naming and map files of a human and thus works good in Dromed, but isn't limited to the ordinary T-pose due to the new animations ((http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6760/wireframeh.jpg) Picture of the "relaxed" pose with joint planes visible). A tail is yet to be added to the rig, but that should be as easy as adapting the rig to use the joint mapping of for example Constantine.

From here and on it's just about creating new animations, which is quite simple now when one can use an animation software of choice - as long as it supports reading and writing .BVH files.

gigagooga on 1/8/2011 at 19:40

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Another big milestone seems to be reached! :thumb::thumb:

Yandros on 1/8/2011 at 20:30

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Awesome news, what a tremendous milestone! Thanks seventyfour!

darthsLair on 1/8/2011 at 21:35

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Congratulations seventyfour ! :thumb: Yes indeed, a great milestone for Thief. LGS would be proud !

Nameless Voice on 2/8/2011 at 00:57

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Nah, I think you'd use AIWatchObj links for that.