Animating Characters?

Join Date: 2012-01-14
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#223796044Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:41 AM GMT

I have been wondering for a while how to animate characters in games, such as setting the arms in a realistic stance when holding a gun or sprinting in FPS games. How would you animate the parts of a player's character without breaking joints and stuff? Links to tutorials would be appreciated!

szkiller_dev

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#223796514Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:51 AM GMT

Too advanced for you, But if you say so.. Use raycasting Murder Games Created + 1 `

LegoPianoPerson

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#223907856Saturday, August 19, 2017 5:41 AM GMT

An explanation would be appreciated...

PotatoSocietyGaming

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#223908130Saturday, August 19, 2017 5:50 AM GMT

Roblox has a website just for this check it out, http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=AllTutorials You should be able to find a tutorial there.

slapurax

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#223908274Saturday, August 19, 2017 5:55 AM GMT

######### How would raycasting be helpful at all in an animation? OP can use CFrame lerp for smooth animations, even though it is a little hard to master and requires some trial and error. If you're comfortable with the animation plugin, simply use that. There's a tutorial on the wiki on how to use it.

slapurax

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#223908365Saturday, August 19, 2017 5:58 AM GMT

Potato, I find the wiki not that helpful, because of my learning style, I am not sure how OP feels either. Wiki entries are just blobs of information. I prefer being shown an example in which, in this case, assuming OP wants to lerp the CFrame, how lerping could be used in a situation with an example, not just the procedure and standard function and parameter explanations. However, your link to all tutorials does not explain how to lerp the CFrame, and I find the wiki page on lerping very terrible. If OP is a beginner at scripting I highly recommend using the animation plugin.

LegoPianoPerson

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#223958296Sunday, August 20, 2017 3:14 AM GMT

Any good tutorial links on lerping? I used the animation plugin before and I'm not a fan of it