Doom3world

As you might have noticed in Ivan's sword trail thread, we are currently working on the melee combat system more for Ruiner. Our main animator is using Maya to do the animations. I'd like to help him out. I'm the max user on the group, but...

I know little about setting up a proper rig in max. Up to this point, just using key frames and moving the bones around for the animations wasn't a problem. With these type of animations, it looks like i'll need a proper rig if i'm going to get any decent results and save time. All the sword animations you guys have seen so far are the placeholders I did a while ago untill we got some good stuff in.

Has anyone already setup a rig for the SP/MP model in Doom3 before I go about making one?

If not, does anyone have some good tutorial links for setting up a proper rig and speeding up my workflow?

Or would it possible to convert the other animator's maya setup into max?

if you're not making your own rig, why not use the one for the D3 character?

we are using the single player d3 skeleton. But I need to set up all the ik's constraints, etc for it. Was wondering if somebody had done this already.

I'm still a little shocked they never released this for D3. They did for quake 4, but they only gave us the imp in d3.

I did create a rig for the Doom guy a looong time ago. I can't even remember what I did with it really but I think I made it fairly extensive. I used it of course for animating the Doom guy in my map.. years ago.

I'd have to go dig it up out of my old backed up scenes but if you're still looking for a rigged Doom guy, I can send you this one.

I can't remember what version of Max it was made in but it was a few years ago so it's not a very new version.. that's for sure.

Would be very interested in trying it out. i use max 8.

The other modelers on our team use maya and have had problems trying to get an extensive rig set up